Nery Castillo Joins Chivas

By: Andrea | November 11th, 2008

This time it seems to be official. It’s not a training deal anymore. Nestor de la Torre announced that Nery Castillo would be part of the squad after his participation in tomorrow’s Mexico game against Ecuador in Phoenix. He would then be available for La Liga and the Sudamericana. As of now it seems like Shakhtar(the original owner of the player) and Manchester City(where Nery is on loan) have agreed to the deal as well and the only thing needed to register the player for the tournaments is his registration from the Premier League.

This deal comes as a surprise as only a few weeks ago, the player claimed to have no interest in playing in the America’s. His mind was changed according to de la Torre based on his previous days’ experience of training with the team, the installations, and his observation of the game against River Plate. If the deal goes through he may play at the Jalisco Stadium Saturday evening against Los Indio de Ciudad Juarez.

Now the game against Puebla that seemed to guarantee our entry into the Liguilla seems to be behind everyone. Several players were rested Sunday for the anticipated game against Inter on Wednesday night. Efrain Flores is taking the blame for the teams bad performance but he is not entirely to blame. Everyone, including the young ones were so sure of themselves they once again underestimated the opponent.

Puebla

1 Jorge Villalpando (YC 49′)

2 Óscar Rincón

24 Sergio Jiménez

58 Óscar Zea

44 Adrián Sánchez (YC 30′)

7 Sergio Rosas (Juan Hernández 82′)

15 Cesáreo Victorino

14 Luis Manuel Noriega

17 Walter Vilchez

13 Álvaro González (Fabiano Pereira 71′)

9 Walter Peralta (YC 13′)

DT Mario Carrillo

Guadalajara

30 Hugo Hernández

6 Omar Esparza (Javier Hernández 66′)

20 Édgar Mejía

33 Mario de Luna (YC 26′)

29 Juan Ocampo

17 Antonio Olvera

5 Patricio Araujo (RC 39′)

13 Sergio Ávila (Sergio Santana 59′)

8 Marco Fabián

15 Jesús Padilla (Omar Arellano 59′) (YC 74′)

10 Alberto Medina

DT Efraín Flores

The captain, Pato Araujo received a red for a terrible tackle which was more of a result of anger more than actually trying to get to the ball. Before that, both goals had already been scored and it showed that our defense was full of inexperienced players. In the very end(91st min) it was Sergio Santana who gave us the consolation goal.