Toluca.- It is undeniable that the match was complicated for Guadalajara, as they faced Toluca, who took control of the ball and forced Ricardo Cadena’s team to rethink the game, but... Could Chivas have won? YES, but they lacked of punch and there was also a refereeing controversy in 2 key plays that resulted in a 0-0 draw, in the match corresponding to Week 12 of the Apertura 2022.
The game began with a tense calm, as despite there were not dangerous approaches, there was the feeling that at any moment someone could hurt the opponent's goal.
The best of the first half:
- The first dangerous action came from Los Diablos at 16', when Fernando Navarro kicked a free kick that promised a lot, however 'Wacho' Jiménez dived and 2-handed the ball out of the angle.
- It took 30 minutes for El Rebaño to make its presence felt in Volpi's goal, thanks to a good run by Roberto Alvarado that left Alexis Vega alone, who got the Brazilian goalkeeper off his back, but a defender prevented him from pushing it into the net.
- At 40', 'Piojo' came within a whisker of opening the scoreboard, after a good cross from Chiverío's 10, Alvarado connected the ball with his left foot, but his shot went just wide.
The best of the second half:
- At the 48' mark, Vega once again put the Choricero goalkeeper to the test, as he took out 2 opponents with a cutback and then kicked a left-footed shot to the base of the post, where Volpi denied him with a handball.
- Carlos González had the first chance for Toluca at 56', after a diagonal from Fernando Navarro left the ball for the Paraguayan striker inside the box, but his shot went just over the crossbar.
- Alexis appeared on the left flank at 76' and when he reached the final third, he put in a 3-finger cross that Cisneros headed in, but the Scarlets' goalkeeper was again a factor, catching the ball.
- At 80', Vega again came up just short of being the star of the match when he got past one of the Choricero players at the edge of the area and then fired a cross-shot that Volpi saved with one hand.
- Miguel Jiménez didn’t want to be left behind and became the star player when he miraculously saved a powerful shot by Daniel Álvarez at 90'+4'.
Toluca 0-0 Guadalajara
Referee: César Arturo Ramos
Nemesio Diez Stadium
Lineups:
Toluca: 1 Tiago Volpi, 4 Valber Huerta, 6 Jorge Torres Nilo (AM at 42'), 21 Brayan Angulo, 5 Carlos Guzmán, 14 Marcel Ruíz (190 Isaías Volante at 90'), 15 Jordan Sierra (10 Leo Fernández at 56'), 16 Jean Meneses (27 Alan Rodríguez at 90'), 18 Fernando Navarro (7 Camilo Sanvezzo at 75'), 23 Claudio Baeza, 32 Carlos González (11 Daniel Álvarez at 76').
D.T. Ignacio Ambriz
Guadalajara: 23 Miguel Jiménez, 17 Jesús Sánchez (AM at 15') (24 Carlos Cisneros at 46'), 3 Gilberto Sepúlveda, 15 Luis Olivas, 13 Gilberto Orozco, 30 Sergio Flores, 20 Fernando Beltrán (AM at 34') (28 Rubén González at 75'), 25 Roberto Alvarado (AM at 33') (26 Cristián Calderón at 75'), 11 Isaac Brizuela (2 Alan Mozo at 62'), 10 Alexis Vega, 9 Ángel Zaldívar (14 Santiago Ormeño at 46').
D.T. Ricardo Cadena
