San Luis vs Chivas
By: Andrea | August 7th, 2010
On Saturday night Chivas won 1-0 against San Luis at the Alfonso Lastras stadium.
Many of the Chivas players were sporting a shaved head, signifying their debuts in the Primera Division as the team was make-shift in preparation for the Copa Libertadores final against Inter de Porto Alegre.
First Half
San Luis had the opening opportunity with Osmar Mares trying to catch Luis Michel off his line, but Michel was able to get a gloved hand on it.
Bofo tried to respond in the 12th minute, but his close-distanced shot went over the goal.
One of Chivas’ new faces, Dionicio Escalante saved off the line in the 16th minute after a close shot resulting from a corner kick.
However, in the 20th minute Marco Fabian scored one for Chivas. San Luis failed to properly clear with the goalkeeper swatting it back into play. Fabian received outside the box and took the shot, sending it toward goal with power for Chivas’ goal.
Oviedo had a chance for Chivas a few moments later as well, but as he sent in his shot the angle was to large and the ball went just wide.
Second Half
Michel Vasquez had an opportunity in the 65th minute by going into the box, but Trejo made the easy save.
One of San Luis’ best opportunity came in the 85th minute when Arroyo took a shot outside the area, but Ponce got in the way. The ball rebounded off his leg, and then his able but nothing was called on the Chivas player.
With the 1-0 win, Chivas earned their first win of the season and now has a total of four points for this tournament in group one. They have played one less game then the other teams and the upcoming game against Estudiantes is in the process of being postponed because of the Copa Libertadores final.
Overall the team did a decent job. They had difficulty for long periods of time, especially after the opening moments of the second half as many of the first team regulars were taken off the field. The new players, sporting the interesting ‘dos did well. They didn’t seem to have nerves regarding their debuts so that’s always great to see. Despite speculations that all of the first team players might have been kept out of the game many appeared tonight and gave respect to San Luis.
We’ll see how the team does against Inter midweek. Hopefully they take a strong lead into the second game.
And…make sure to follow ChivasOffside on Twitter for the latest updates.
Category: Chivas Team News
Comments
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not the most entertaining match, nor was it a spectacular display of football, but it was just enough to get the win. which is nice.
i think Real’s decision to rest some 65% percent of the usual starters in preparation for the Copa Libertadores final on Wednesday was spot on, albeit a bit risky in the sense that it was a road game featuring a lot of young players. then again, San Luis is horrible this year, so that should even things out.
Marco Fabian has been on fire as of late; like, seriously good. and if Georgie V’s claim that four Chivas players will be exported to Europe by month’s end, i would not be surprised if he’s among those making the jump. i mean, this would be great for El Tri’s sake and makes a GDL supporter all proud & warm & fuzzy inside and whatnot, but it would really leave the team devastated and without depth. so, who knows…
in the meantime, let’s hope for a great result in the first leg of the CL final against Inter. ¡vamos Rebaño!
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That was a great goal! Yes Andrea, it is always good for teams to gather support outside of their home nation. My ex girlfriend (who i met at university in england) was born in Guadalajara, so chivas became my second team (after man utd). Thanks for the info again, i need to find a way of watching the games really but England has poor coverage of football not played in europe. Eventually i hope to live in Mexico for a while though, so i guess i should be patient.
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