Last Minute Draw

By: Andrea | September 6th, 2009

No Johnny Magallon, or Aaron Galindo. ‘Venado’ Medina and Omar Arellano back. What would that give Chivas? Barely a draw. And by barely, I mean “the very last play of the game.”

Again, Chivas did not perform well although to be honest it wasn’t very surprising. Omar Arellano showed up and on his return scored the equalizer.

Puebla
1 Jorge Villalpando
3 Alejandro Acosta (YC 26′)
10 Nicolás Olivera (Pablo Aja 62′)
11 Gilberto Mora (YC 90′)
14 Luis Noriega (YC 90′)
20 Carlos Ruíz (YC 31′) (Álvaro Ortíz 84′)
23 Joaquín Velázquez (YC 81′)
24 Sergio Pérez
26 Roberto Juárez
30 Felipe Ayala (YC 41′) (RC 59′)
58 Jared Borgetti (Nicolás Vignieri 65′)
DT. José Luis Sánchez Solá.

Guadalajara
1 Luis Michel
6 Omar Esparza (Alberto Medina 2T)
2 Mario de Luna (YC48′)
4 Héctor Reynoso
20 Édgar Mejía (YC 53′)
16 Édgar Solís (Amaury Ponce 57′)
18 Xavier Báez
7 Gonzalo Pineda
5 Patricio Araujo (Omar Arellano 66′)
14 Javier Hernández
99 Omar Bravo
DT. Francisco Ramírez.

The game started out in favor for Puebla. They constantly attacked and were close to scoring the opening goal. Of course, it didn’t take long and in the 6th minute Alejandro Acosta scored the 1-0. Michel wasn’t able to hold on to the ball after an initial shot. Acosta was able to control the ball and give Puebla the lead.

It didn’t take too long before Chivas equalized. Game captain, Omar Bravo, received the rebound from an initial Gonzalo Pineda shot. Bravo shot with his left foot for the 1-1 score.

Michel made a fingertip save in the 19th minute on a shot from ‘Pescadito’ Ruiz.

Then in the 21st minute, Puebla got their second goal. Ruiz sent in a cross to Jared Borgetti who was on the far post. Marked by Mario de Luna, Borgetti easily rose to use one of his famous headers for the 2-1.

Back for the second half, Chivas gave away a penalty. De Luna held on to Borgetti’s jersey and pulled down the player. Borgetti himself stepped up to take the penalty. He shot the ball to Michel’s right, but the Chivas ‘keeper was able to save and keep the score at 2-1.

Puebla were almost able to put the game away when in the 87th minute Vigneri took a shot that ended up hitting the base of the right post, barely missing going into goal.

During the last minutes of the game ‘Chelis’ kept on kissing/praying to his small crucifix.

In added time Chivas received a free kick. Ponce was laid the ball by Pineda. It went into the box, and Villalpando was able to stop the initial ball. However, he was unable to hold on to it and both Mejia and De Luna struggled to try and put it in. It was Omar Arellano who showed up and put it in the back of the net for the 2-2 draw.

At the end, there was a mass brawl from both sides as tempers flared, but it didn’t escalate too much beyond control. Funny enough, these brawls have occurred on the “Fair Play” dates.

The game…

Defensively I think that there’s been a slight improvement over the past games. Yes, two goals were let in and there was a penalty, but they did ok. It was Puebla on the attack, but it was a slight improvement.

Up front there were a couple of missed opportunities, but that should get better. Omar Arellano improved and his impact was felt with the equalizer. Hopefully, he doesn’t get injured….AGAIN.

It’s bad to say that the team did decently, but that might just be being used to Chivas’ below average performances.

The next game is against San Luis on September 12.