Mexican League Standings, stats and comments.
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GROUP 1
Toluca: 6-5-3 (19/17, +2) 23
Jaguares: 6-4-4 (19/15, +4) 22 Bofo Bautista and Brazilian Batista are a dangerous duo
Pachuca: 6-3-5 (25/19, +6) 21 Playing CONCACAF Champions next week, and may end up tired…
Puebla: 4-5-5 (21/17, +4) 17
Tecos: 4-4-6 (17/24, -7) 16
Pumas: 4-3-7 (17/24, -7) 15
GROUP 2
Santos: 6-6-2 (29/16, +13) 24
Monterrey: 4-6-4 (23/19, +4) 18 Match of the Week vs Chivas!!
Atlas: 4-4-6 (18/24, -6) 16
Atlante: 2-7-5 (19/25, -6) 13
Veracruz: 3-4-7 (18/24, -6) 13 Almost on their way to relegation
América: 2-2-10 (11/24, -13) 8
GROUP 3
Chivas: 8-5-1 (26/11, +15) 29
San Luis: 7-5-2 (22/18, +4) 26
Cruz Azul: 7-4-3 (24/15, +9) 25
Necaxa: 4-8-2 (15/10, +5) 20
Tigres: 4-4-6 (17/25, -8) 16
Monarcas: 4-3-7 (8/21, -13) 15
Goles
10- Humberto Suazo* (Monterrey) 1084m
9- MatÃas Vuoso* (Santos) 1184m
9- Claudio Graf* (Veracruz) 1247m
8- Alvaro González* (Puebla) 905m
8- Itamar Batista* (Jaguares) 928m
8- Sergio Santana (Chivas) 1050m (1 pen)
8- Omar Bravo (Chivas) 1256m Looking for goal number 100
8- Esteban Solari* (Pumas) 1260m (1 pen)
6- Miguel Sabah (Cruz Azul) 834m (1 pen)
6- Christian BenÃtez* (Santos) 1115m
6- Salvador Cabañas* (América) 1215m
Category: Mexico Football League
Tags: Superclasico should have been 5-0, 5-1
By: Albert | 4 Comments
What else would you expect form Jorge Vergara, Chivas owner. This guy is always looking for an opportunity to talk trash. Latest quote is: “We helped Romano break records, he has 20 games without a win. He also said it should have been 5-0 or 5-1.
This may be true, but wow, not very nice. Romano was seen after the game complaining to the refs for bad calls, even though the 1 penalty awarded to America was an iffy one, and in my opinion not worthy of calling a pk. What would have been a PK is if Avila would have let himself fall after Memo Ochoa came out to challenge him and brushed his leg and knocked him off balance. Avila stayed with the play and scored the goal.
Sergio Santana scored 2 goals to lead the Chivas to victory. Omar Bravo had some clear opportunities but failed against Memo Ochoa to reach the 100 goal mark.
To add insult to injury, Venado Medina and Juan Carlos Silva received yellow cards for an incident where Silva was tripped up and fell on the ball with his stomach. Medina then proceeded to kick and kick the ball until Silva got upset and started a shoving match. Players all gathered into a little scuffle. Silva was given the yellow, then the Chivas players reminded the ref that Silva had previously received a yellow, so he was then given the red card and America was down to 10 men.
In the end, Chivas gained a deserved victory over the bottom feeding Aguilas and continue to be Superlider in the Table.
Super Classico! Chivas vs America
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So this weekend is the Super Clasico match up in the Mexican League. Never in the 70 year history have the teams been so separated in the standings. Chivas at the top and America at the bottom. Should it be assumed that this game is already decided? Coach of the Chivas says NO! He wants his Chivas to be ready for anything that America may or may not hand out.
Chivas Owner Jorge Vergara made the comment that it is sad to face America in a Classico, with them playing so badly. As he states: “We feel sorry for them”. I am sure he does, but I am sure he is enjoying America’s misfortune this season.
Some would think since America is playing so badly, that this would be an easy win and interest would be low, but I sure am interested in it. I am interested to see if Chivas blows them out, or if they lose. How embarrassing it would be!
Category: Mexico Football LeagueGoal Fest in Monterrey!
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Tutor and student of Lavolpism, (allegedly) Ricardo Lavolpe and el “piojo” Herrera met face to face as coaches of the Monterrey and Veracruz this past Saturday. Herrera who used to be coach for Monterrey left and Lavolpe has since taken over after failing in his home country of Argentina. Lavolpe hasn’t been doing great in Monterrey either, and neither has Chilean forward Humberto Suazo. This game was something different.
Suazo scored 4 times for Monterrey as they romped Veracruz 7-2. Veracruz is fighting relegation and now Monterrey is improving their standings. Suazo is now the leading goal scorer with 10. Jared Borgetti scored 2 goals also for Monterrey. With this win, Monterrey helped hometown rival UANL Tigres who are fighting relegation along with Veracruz.
This was the same Veracruz team that spanked America the week prior 4-0, but I guess this year that really isn’t a big accomplishment.
Another America Loss, now a resignation
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That is right. America lost to Veracruz 4-0 this past weekend and Coach Ruben Omar Romano has turned in his resignation starting in June. So starting in June he is going to let America start a new process and restructure. Romano, who has 18 games without a win in Mexico, 6, with America. Not a very good record and its a wonder he even got hired. I was surprised el Ruso Brailovsky was let go so quick. Brailovsky who I often watch on ESPN Deportes, is a good analyst and I enjoy his point of view on the show Futbol Picante, had a short stint as coach of the Aguilas. Now he is back at ESPN Deportes.
Now we will wait to see who will take over the reigns in Coapa and if there will be any improvement. I would have liked to see Brailovsky in there longer. I never liked Romano, since recently he hasn’t impressed in Cruz Azul or Atlas.
Update/Correction: President of America, Guillermo Cañedo has also resigned. Change is needed and hopefully a good thing.
CONCACAF Micky Mouse Cup Update
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I’m sorry. CONCACAF Champions Cup has been underway. As far as Mexican League is concerned, the two Mexican competitors this year are Pachuca and Atlante.
Atlante bowed out already to Saprissa after a disappointing but entertaining loss in Costa Rica. I say entertaining in that it turned physical, there were fouls, arguments and worst of all flying projectiles. Saprissa fans threw objects into the field, hitting players and coaches. One Atlante Team Trainer was ejected from the game and received a barrage of objects from opposing fans. You can even read here what CONCACAF thought about the event. Saprissa was slapped with 15,000 USD fine and has to pinky promise to man-up on security before they Houston Dyname show up in Costa Rica. Atlante got a few thousand in fines also.
Pachuca, the other Mexican team is still alive. They play DC United next. The same DC United who was eliminated by Pumas, then by Chivas in the past 2 tournaments. They have not had the luck as of yet in recent Tournaments against Mexican teams, although last years match up with Chivas seemed quite close. This year Pachuca isnt tearing it up, so to speak, in the domestic league, but hope to have some key defensive players as well as speedy, Damian Alvarez, back healthy for the match versus DC United.
Category: Team NewsLibertadores: America dissapoints once again
By: Albert | 2 Comments
America loses to San Martin of Peru, in Peru lastnight. The Aguilas are still in 2nd place but only by goal differential of 1. The group has tightened. River Plate leads with 9 points, America and San Martin with 6 and Catolica with only 3.
The lone goal scored was by Mario Leguizamón who shot a smoker from mid range that went just above Guillermo Ochoa’s reach and into the net. Some say the keeper Ochoa was at fault but the shot was powerful and curved just out of reach of the America goal keeper. Maybe, Memo could have been positioned a little closer to the goal line, but he then would have exposed his sides from a low level shot.
What was disgraceful was America’s lack of offense and finishing as More Mosqueda seemed to provide some stability in the midfield, but Cabañas and company couldn’t put it in the net.
The woes still continue for America.
Update: Cruz Azul - America Fight
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So we posted about the 6 game suspension for various Cruz Azul and America players for a fight they got into. The FMF (Mexican Federation) ratified the suspension for the players and stated that it was following the FIFA rules to avoid contention spreading into the stands.
I think a good decision, after all we already know what happened after this took place.
For America, Libertadores, is all that is left.
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We all know by now that America is in last place in the Mexican League Clausura Tournament. They have been playing horrible with a defense as was described on ESPN Deportes, made of butter. You can cut through their defense like cutting through some warm butter with a knife. WOW, that’s messed up. I admit, I laughed when I heard the ESPN comentator say that. They also said that in their recent Mexican League game, they can’t even pull a win out using the prestige of their Jersey. Prestige that America is one of the big clubs in Mexico.
Despite their bad play, America is 1st place in their Copa Libertadores group! Now they face San Martin in Peru. San Martin, who America beat 3-1 in their last match in Mexico. A win in Peru could bring America very close to qualifying for the next round in Copa Libertadores competition. San Martin was supposedly missing various key players last game. America as well was missing Guillermo Ochoa and Enrique Esqueda who were too busy losing games in the Olympic qualifying. They also will have Gringo Castro, who was suspended for getting into a scuffle a couple games back.
Stay tuned tomorrow for this match.
Mexican NT Call up for Ghana game.
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Hugo announced the list of players for this game next week. A game that could decide his fate. A game that is without Chivas, America and Atlas players as they have Copa Libertadores competition.
So don’t go crazy about seeing Oswaldo in the lineup. You can go crazy about seeing Moises Muños! I have no idea why he is there or why there are 3 keepers in this list.
In the Defense we have a return player in Aaron Galindo, who hasn’t played with the National Team since getting the boot in the Confederations Cup for doping.
Nothing else new, except for Guille “Guishe” Franco, who is doing good in Villareal, but Hugo said long ago was against Naturalized players being on the NT. Oh well, anything for a win. Guille is needed, however, with the asterisk next to Giovanni, Carlos Vela and Guardado because of injury, they may not end up playing. I hope they recover and are able to participate. This full lineup could be very interesting and very effective.
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