Mexico hosted one of the most intriguing fixtures of club football as the Mexican blood ties of the people, represented by the club Chivas, faced off against “The Eagles” of America, the cultured, debonair sportsmen of Mexico.

The Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara was thumping in appreciation of the rivalry as the game got off to a quick start. Chivas created the most in both playmaking and chances on goal as the American goalkeeper, Ochoa was forced into some very influential saves to keep the scores level.

The interchange and combination play of Chivas’ creative attacking players caused disruption and uncertainty in the American defense time-and-time again, and Bautista, Morales, and Medina were all unlucky to go in goalless at half-time.

America actually started out the better of the two sides in the 2nd half with goal-scoring veteran, Blanco being introduced. The substitution almost paid off as Blanco showed some quality touches and drew two dangerous free-kicks for his team.

Just as the game was about to go off keel, Chivas exploded with 2 goals in the space of three minutes to end any American hope of victory.

The striker, Bautista struck the first goal from distance off a deflected rebound with an outside-of-the-foot bender past a hapless Ochoa. Bautista’s wonder strike was immediately followed by Medina’s, who carved up an American defender deep in the box and delivered a left-footed cracker inside the back post.

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 7th, 2006 at 3:40 am and is filed under Soccer World, Mexico, Rick Wall (Head Editor). You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.