After beating Cruz Azul at the Akron Stadium, a 2 goal comeback included, on Matchday 16, Las Chivas are so on fire in the final stretch of the Clausura 2023 and it's not for nothing, as they are very close to clinch a direct ticket to the Quarter-Finals.
Veljko Paunovic’s team continues to show signs of its individual and collective potential, and that it can really aspire to great things this tournament. This victory against La Máquina has provided many facts, records, streaks and numbers to highlight and here we tell you all about it:
- Chivas has the possibility of closing the regular season as second overall; with 1 matchday to go, they are third with 31 points.
- Guadalajara hadn’t surpassed the 30-point barrier since the 2011 Apertura, when they registered 30 points.
- The red-and-white team hadn’t won 9 regular season matches since the Bicentenario 2010; they had 10 victories in that tournament.
- El Rebaño Sagrado has 3 back to back wins: 1-0 vs Necaxa, 0-2 at León and 2-1 vs Cruz Azul.
- El Guadalajara has a 4 game undefeated streak (3W-1D).
- Los rojiblancos broke a streak of more than 6 years without beating Cruz Azul at the Akron; the previous time was in Matchday 15 of Apertura 2016.
- El Chiverío is the 4th best defense in the CL23, with 17 goals conceded.
- The Squad from Guadalajara has scored at least 1 goal in 14 of 16 matches played.
- Víctor Guzmán scored his 6th goal of the tournament and is the top scorer for the red-and-white team.
- Ronaldo Cisneros scored his second goal of the season.
- Alan Mozo notched an assist for the second consecutive game at the Akron Stadium.
- Miguel Jiménez is the only player in the squad with all the minutes played in CL23 (1440).
- Alan Mozo has played in all 16 matches of the CL23.
- Veljko Paunovic has a 64.5% efficiency rate as Chivas’ coach.
- 9 out of the 16 players who faced Cruz Azul were trained in La Cantera Rojiblanca.
