Chivas tied 1-1 with the San José Earthquakes after a poor performance

The Chivas of Guadalajara They could not prevent a poor performance against the San José Earthquakes, the worst team in the MLS, dragging down their prestige before a great attendance of more than 50 thousand people at the Levi Stadium, mostly in favor of Guadalajara, who saw the way the team led by the Argentine Fernando Gago suffered to tie the game 1-1 and then missed the extra point by failing in the penalty shootout 4-3.

A clearly negative scoreline for the Mexican team, as they were limited at all times and very careless in trying to recover from the goal scored by the naturalized Frenchman. American Jeremy Ebobisse, who has been the subject of much discussion for his poor performance in his appearance in the 2024 edition of the Leagues Cup.

A negative result that raises many questions about the way Chivas approached this match, which adds to the other five negative results. of the Mexican teams Mazatlán, Pumas de la UNAM, Xolos Tijuana and Puebla, who bit the dust against New England Revolution, Austin FC, LAFC and Inter Miami, in the confrontations of this competition that pits the teams of the Liga MX against those of the Major League Soccer and where the numbers favor those of the North American league.

To make matters worse, Chivas moved many pieces and above all suffered from the absence of their top star Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez, who was absent due to alleged muscular problems that prevented him from helping to prevent the poor performance of the Sacred Flock on the Levi Stadium field.

Guadalajara gave away the first 45 minutes of the match, where the Californian team was close to increasing the score when a shot by Enobisse, after a pass from the Norwegian Amahl Pellegrino missed a great chance to beat Raúl “Tala” Rangel’s goal.

Then in the second half Guadalajara moved its pieces putting all the meat on the grill so that in the minutes final Roberto Alvarado scored a goal to equalise the score by beating Brazilian goalkeeper Daniel De Souza with a great pass from Mateo Chávez.

On penalties, the Earthquakes won 4-3 with goals from Brazilians Antonio Rodrigues and Vitor Costa and Americans Jack Skahan and Alfredo Morales, with a mistake by Frenchman Paul Marie. While for Chivas Alvarado and Cowell missed and Alan Mozo, Erick Gutiérrez and Fernando Beltrán scored.

In this way, San José leads Group West 2 with two points, one above Guadalajara and in the overall summary of Leagues Cup duels between MLS and Liga MX teams, in six matches at the start of the championship, The Americans have four wins, one draw and one loss, which was caused this Saturday by Atlas, 1-0 against Dynamo Houston.

On Friday, Austin defeated Pumas UNAM 2-3 and Los Angeles defeated Tijuana 3-0. And this Saturday, Miami, the defending champion, beat Puebla 0-2, New England, beat Mazatlán 1-0.

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