Not Much Against Vaccinated Kittens

By: Andrea | April 27th, 2009

With the swine flu running rampant in Mexico’s capital it was determined that games played in Mexico City were going to be behind closed doors. For the game against Pumas that meant no audience at the CU. And if there’s any fan base that I’m really jealous of, it’s definitely Pumas’.

UNAM
125 Sergio Bernal
2 Efraín Velarde
3 Marco Antonio Palacios
4 Darío Verón
5 Israel Castro
7 Leandro Augusto
20 Ismael Iñiguez (Pablo Barrera 60′)
9 Dante López
10 Martín Bravo (Francisco Palencia 60′)
26 David Toledo (Juan Carlos Cacho 70′)
DT Ricardo Ferreti

Guadalajara
1 Luis Michel
17 Sergio Ponce
20 Égar Mejía
4 Héctor Reynoso
5 Patricio Araujo
6 Omar Esparza
18 Xavier Báez
7 Gonzalo Pineda
10 Alberto Medina (Marco Fabián 63′ )
14 Javier Hernández (Carlos Ochoa 63′)
11 Ramón Morales (Édgar Solís 71′)
DT Francisco Ramírez

Sorry for the crappy game report this week, but the game wasn’t very exciting. And not just because the fans were missing.

Chivas got the goal in the 21st minute. Ponce provided a nice cross to Chicharo who came in with a diving header to put Chivas up 1-0 in front of an empty stadium.

In the 72nd Pumas equalized, but their bad goal was voided. Dante Lopez had take the ball outside the pitch before giving it back to Palencia to put in the back of the net. The linesman ruled it void and the score stayed 1-0. It would have been interesting to see if the crowd would have had the same effect on that play during another game.

Again Pumas came in with the tricky ball over the line play in the 82nd. This time the ball had just gone over the line of the goal before Michel swatted it away. This was a legit goal and it was given to Pumas to make the score 1-1.

Pumas remain top of group 2 and now Chivas are 3rd behind Tecos with one point less. So it’s squeaky bum time.

Carlos Ochoa returned to play for a few minutes. He didn’t do much, but it was nice to see him in the first team again after his long time absence.

The next game will be in the Copa Libertadores against Everton in Chile on Wednesday. For that game Ramon Morales has been ruled out with a knock to his left foot.