Well, Concentrate on the Sudamericana

By: Andrea | November 16th, 2008

That’s it ladies and gentlemen. We’re out of the liguilla. We needed to score 5 against Indios to assure that we qualified on Saturday. We managed 2 and it went to counting on the results of others. Both Morelia and Toluca had to lose and it seemed like a while qualification was possible. Morelia lost but Toluca did not. And with that the door was shut on our face. Now, the team has headed out to Brazil for the midweek class against Inter of Porto Alegre. Everyone said that Efrain Flores was betting on winning this tournament and not the Liguilla. Well, whether he planned it or not it seems like that’s his only choice now.

However, we are down in that tournament after this week’s loss at home. Worst of all is the away goals rule. Anyways we’ll see how we do or our season will be definitely over.

The Lineups against Indios looked like this:

Guadalajara

30 Hugo Hernández
6 Omar Esparza
20 Édgar Mejía
4 Héctor Reynoso
29 Juan Ocampo (YC 13′) (Antonio Olvera 48′)
18 Xavier Báez
11 Ramón Morales
8 Marco Fabián (Édgar Solís 78′)
10 Alberto Medina (YC15′)
21 Sergio Santana (Sergio Ávila 68′)
9 Omar Arellano
DT Efraín Flores

Indios

13 Cirilo Saucedo
2 Juan Carlos Franco
3 Juan de la Barrera
24 William Hernández
25 Sindey Balderas (YC 54′)
7 Andrés Chitiva (Jorge Rodríguez 62′)(YC 85′)
8 Tomás Campos
15 Edwin Santibañez
23 Manuel Pérez (Julio Frias 68′)
26 Juan ramón Curbelo (Daniel Campos 34′)
9 Carlos Maggiolo
DT Héctor Hugo Eugui

First half we scored in the 29th by Marco Fabian. It all started with a lovely build up by Santana who went around the goal kepper and then back heeled the ball back to the youngster who stared down the ball and put it in the back of the net. Lovely indeed.
We went in for half time up and then the players found out what they needed to do to get into the short tournament.
Out the players came and scored in the 66th again with build up from Santana but scored by Medina. After, it was a whole bunch of missed chances and time dwindled away as did our hopes of classifying on our own. The game ended and all we could do was wait until today to see the results of Morelia and Toluca. And well as you know they didn’t turn out favorably and so here we are betting everything on the Sudamericana. Come on, please boys. Win this weekend. We’ve been without a trophy for a while now. Have a safe flight.