Where’s the Real Team?

By: Andrea | September 27th, 2009

Oh jeeze, that game was horrible. I was surprised that Chivas weren’t completely slaughtered. After the 1-1 draw the Chivas players looked content with a point. Alright, a point is a point but Chivas did not deserve that point.

Chivas didn’t have many opportunities and were lucky that more goals weren’t conceded.

Pumas had most of the opportunities, Chivas had about two.

They were horrible throughout the whole game and only slightly improved at moments only to go back to being bad.

In truth Pumas deserved to win. Their selfish players and horrible finishing prevented them from getting more goals.

Chivas have Luis Michel to thank for fantastic saves, and the post that prevented about 3 goals as well.

So in front Hernandez got the goal again. He was at the right place at the right time, but at least he keeps on scoring. Captain Omar Bravo was invisible during the first half and was taken off for the complementary part.

In the midfield poor little Ramon Morales worked his butt off. Again, he seems like the only player that truly feels for the team.

And the defense…the horror. Reynoso’s terrible attempt to clear the ball led to the Pumas goal. He made several other defensive errors but that was the worst. Galindo did better than the others only because he made a few good clearances and didn’t outshine because he didn’t make horrible mistakes. Solis made a huge save on the line and that was his best contribution, but he did play better than previous performances under Ramirez. And Johnny Magallon…he really is one of my favorite players on the squad, but his performance was terrible. He played as a left back and not as a central defender so that might have had a small factor but he looked lost. I think that all the games have caught up with him.

Four of the boys(Magallon, Araujo, Arellano, and Chicharo) will go off with the national team for the midweek friendly against Colombia.

Next up is Monterrey on October 3rd. Monterrey have been doing extremely well so far…who knows if Chivas will come out of that alive.