Chivas Legacy Hands First Win To Another Traditional Chivas Family

By: Andrea | April 4th, 2009

Omar Arellano Sr. ages like fine wine. Now National Team Coach, Javier Aguirre, had this man as his assistant at Atletico Madrid in Spain. Vergara then had him come over to be assistant to previous manager Efrain Flores. Now the new manager of Chivas led the team to their first win under this new regime. Chicharo Hernandez provided the lone goal of the game, but it was enough to overcome San Luis and place Chivas in 2nd place of group 2.

Guadalajara
1 Luis Michel
17Sergio Amaury Ponce
19 Jonny Magallón
4 Héctor Reynoso (AM 85′)
20 Édgar Mejía
11 Ramón Morales
7 Gonzalo Pineda (Patricio Araujo 62′)
18 Xavier Báez (AM 90′)
9 Omar Arellano (Sergio “Gaucho” Ávila 64′) (Omar Esparza 75′)
14 Javier Hernández
10 Alberto Medina
DT Omar Arellano Nuño.

San Luis
1 Adrián Martínez
2 Omar Monjaraz
15 Alfredo González
16 Michael Orozco (AM 90′)
19 Arturo Alvarado (Rodolfo Salinas 54′)
17 Ignacio Torres
23 Jesús Palacios (AM 89′)
14 Noe Maya (Jairo Patiño 77′)
21 Víctor Hugo Lojero (Néstor Bareiro 72′)
10 Tressor Moreno
24 Rodolfo Reyes
DT Américo Scatolaro

The game started out with Chivas knocking on the door first. Medina let a shot rip in the 2nd minute from outside the area. The shot hit Martinez’ crossbar but issued a warning.

Arellano Jr. got into the area and past a few San Luis defenders. His shot went just wide.

San Luis weren’t really looking dangerous, but they decided to try their luck in the 15th minute. Alvarado shot from outside the area, but the ball went above Michel’s goal.

Omar Arellano Jr. was trying to make his Papa proud when in the 29th minute he came against Martinez. He tried to shoot over the goalkeeper, but his shot went too high for what could have been a goal.

Finally in the 36th minute a good play starting from deep within the Chivas area gave Chivas their goal. Magallon recovered the ball and played it to Arellano. Arellano then gave it to Pineda who ran up the field and chipped it back to Arellano. Arellano played it in for Chicharo Hernandez who rose up against the San Luis defenders and headed the ball into the net. 1-0

During the second half in the 60th min Gonzalo Pineda who had just recovered from injury was injured. There was a clash between Pineda and Tressor Moreno and his knee lost.

In the 75th Arellano Sr. made a strange substitution. Sergio Avila had come in during the 64th minute for Arellano Jr. but was taken out in the 75th. Understandably, Avila did not look to happy as he did not seem to have any injury and he had not been playing terrible.

The last chance in the game for Chivas came in the 85th when Chicharo took a ball and tried to round a defender. He lost his footing and was swarmed by the San Luis team, and wasted the opportunity for what could have been Chivas’ 2nd goal.

San Luis who had a relatively quiet game had a chance in the 88th minute when they gave a powerful shot from outside the area, but it went wide of Michel’s goal.

So the game was pretty quiet. It wasn’t too exciting, but Chivas functioned well. There was great play between Hernandez and Arellano which is bad news for Carlos Ochoa who is currently at Chivas’ reserve team Tapatio A.

Some more bad news is that Aaron Galindo will be out for about 3 weeks after a muscle tear while away with the national team. Galindo didn’t start the game against Honduras because of an injury but was forced into action after Lopez was injured.

It’s funny, Chicharo Hernandez comes from generations of Chivas players. The Arellano’s are a Chivas family. It’s all family in this team folks.

The next game is against Atlante on April 11th away at Quintana Roo.