The Chivas de Guadalajara lost 2-1 against Pachuca in a match characterized by the errors of the herd, and that now add a defeat and a victory at the beginning of the Liga MX Closing Tournament 2022.
Marcelo Michel Leaño, coach of Guadalajara, apologized to the fans for the defeat and the mistakes that they were the ones that made the difference against the tuzos.
“We were prey to our mistakes, but above all what cannot happen in Guadalajara is that if we make a mistake, let’s get in doubt. We must be a team with confidence to turn the situation around. We improved a little in the second half, but it wasn’t enough. Obviously, if we want to aspire to important things, we must be constant”, explained Leaño.
Marcelo Michel Leaño decided to line up the same players from day 1 after thrashing Mazatlán 3-0, however, in Hidalgo, things did not go as planned and Guillermo Almada sent his players to block all kinds of attempts from the beginning of the commitment.
With the defensive errors, the Tuzos were able to take advantage of a bad start by Gilberto Sepúlveda, where Nicolás Ibañez stole the ball and assisted Víctor Guzmán to open the scoring at 16′ minutes of commitment. From then on, the locals blocked any attack attempt by the herd and kept them at bay.
“Perhaps the only positive thing today is that despite the bad first half we gave, the team was able to provide a better performance in the second half, without being brilliant. The team tried, they didn’t give up, but that’s not enough. We are not going to make excuses, today we did not play a good game and we have to improve”, he explained.
Marcelo Michel also took advantage of and spoke about Roberto Alvarado’s debut with Guadalajara, whom he kept a good eye on.
“He entered, he played a good game, which we had asked him, to have the ball, to get together with Alexis, with Angulo, with Zaldívar. At times we managed to connect, he is adapting well to the idea of the game, to his teammates. Surely we will see even better performances than today”, he concluded.
Las Chivas suffered their first defeat of the season after a debut that raised the expectations of all the Atletico fans.