By Edgardo Avelar
Regardless of the forms, without taking into account the desperation for some moments of the Chivas, The truth is that the end justifies the means; they did enough to eliminate the Tigers with two goals from rookie Santiago Sandoval and advance to the semifinals with the tiebreaker criterion after the world 3-3.
Tigres paid dearly to assume a passive attitude and show that as a visitor it is not their strong suit, because from the first minute Guadalajara He was able to resolve the match with a score by Efraín Álvarez, but it was annulled by the VAR as he was in an advanced position..
The rest was a constant siege by Guadalajara that generated 27 arrivals at Nahuel Guzmán’s goal and although only five were on goal, two of them were the goals by Santiago Sandoval that gave him a place in the semifinals.
A victory with a lot of merit as it did not have five key players on the field who are with the Mexican team, such as Raúl “Tala” Rangel, Luis Romo, Brian Gutiérrez, Roberto Alvarado and Armando González, but those who played responded amply on the field.
During the game it was clear that the Argentine Gabriel Milito won the tactical approach over his compatriot Guido Pizarrowith a very versatile lineup where Richie Ledezma and Efráin Álvarez jumped in as very versatile flying wingers, a line of three, with José Castillo and Bryan González as center backs on the right and left, leaving Diego Campillo as a free center back.
In midfield he placed Fernando “Oso” González as support, Omar Govea and Santiago Sandoval as midfielders on the sides and forwards Ricardo Marín and Ángel Sepúlveda, With which they had a lot of force in the attack to overwhelm the felines.
The Tigres, for their part, only had two goals in the entire game and it was notable that coach Guido Pizarro did not find the thread throughout the match, to the point that he had to change the lineup from the beginning to rookie Diego “Rica” Sánchez, who could not be the recount that the northerners expected as he did in the first leg.
Sánchez was overcome by nerves and had to be relieved by Diego Lainez, but without creating danger and instead, the Chivas went with everything in front and in five minutes the decoration of the match changed. with the scores in the 73rd minute by deflecting a ball from a shot by Ricardo Marín.
In the 76th minute Sandoval scored again when he finished with a header in the middle of three rivals and beat his teammate Ángel Sepúlveda to the shot. and in this way write the definitive story where the Chivas rookie, son of another player who was destined to be a figure for Guadalajara, but who ultimately remained a promise.
Now history lies with his heir and we will really have to see if the best of the team comes, because right now Chivas with its losses was a team with a lot of personality and it left out one of the top teams in the competition.
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