Goal and Highlights: Leon 1-0 Chivas Liga MX Playoffs

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90' León is in the final! The leader will be looking for the title against Cruz Azul or Pumas!

 

90' A matter of minutes to be confirmed and León will be in the grand final of the Guard1anes 2020. 

82' Near Leon of the second. We reiterate; Chivas needs two despite the fact that the Guanajuato team scores again. It looks very difficult. 

 

74' Unless something extraordinary happens, Leon will be in the final. Chivas is out of ideas.

 

63' Macías and Molina leave, Beltrán and Torres enter. Just under half an hour and Chivas still need two goals. 

 

56' Calderón exits and enters Angulo. Peralta also enters and Vega exits. 

 

53' The closest to Chivas. Escape from the left, powerful shot, Cota was not going to arrive and the ball hit the post. 

47' New attack of Leon but Gudiño held on, made the goal small and avoided the goal.

 

45' With the minimum advantage Leon goes to the break. The Red-White will need a goal soon to get into the game. 

 

41' Chivas had it! Dropped from the right but service did not reach its target and Leon's back clears. 

 

35' The game continues without much emotion. The rhythm is the most pleasant but both sets arrive with little clarity to the last sung line. 

 

31' A couple of shots from afar have been the best approaches from visitors. It would be very important if Vucetich's men go to half-time with the draw. 

 

27' For the visitor goals, at this moment the Red-White are still looking for a couple of goals, they could even give themselves the luxury of allowing one more goal. 

 

17' Good play by Mena, service to Campbell and the tico opens the score. Chivas needs 2 goals. 

 

11' The script looks like the one expected; Ambriz with the ball and Chivas waiting for a counter-attack. 0-0 we continue. 

 

7' Gradually the locals start taking more of the ball. They look for that goal that can give them a little more peace of mind. 

 

5' Both Chivas and Leon fought for possession in the first minutes. Instants of analysis of the opponent. 

 

1 'In 90 minutes we will have the first finalist of the tournament. 

 

Angel Mena is the footballer that can make something happen in any second. The chances of Leon making it to another final are on Mena's feet.

Leon fans are clear about who should be the loser tonight.

Gudino warms up at full intensity. The Chivas goalkeeper will have the game of his life tonight.

The forward will be start again today after his physical problems in the past weeks. Vucetich must know that he is 100% ready for tonight's clash.

Vucetich's starters: Gudiño; A.Briseño, M.Ponce, J.Sánchez, H.Mier, C.Calderón, J.Molina, I.Brizuela, U.Antuna, A.Vega, J.Macías.

Chivas have advanced the last two times they tied the first leg of a Playoffs series (both in Clausura 2017).

XI Leon: Cota, Navarro, Barreiro, Mosquera, Tesillo, Iván, Aquino, Montes, Meneses, Mena and Campbell.

Emanuel Gigliotti won't start.

It is reported that Argentinian forward Emanuel Gigliotti would not be in the starting line-up sent by Ignacio Ambriz.

The 'Puma' has scored five goals this season.

Chivas locker room looks like this. Facemasks and a lot of nerves worthy of being a step away from the Liga MX final.

Chivas has just arrived at the stadium as well. This is the opportunity that Ricardo Pelaez has been looking for since his arrival as Chiverio's sports director.

Astonishing how the fans of Leon escorted their team before it arrived at the stadium.

Although it looks spectacular, it is an irresponsible attitude of the people because of the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic in Mexico.

Leon's effectiveness playing on their home turf is tremendous.

Since 365 days ago, the emeralds have played 13 matches in their stadium and have only drawn once. Their last defeat was on November 30, 2019, by 2-1 against Morelia.

The home team just arrived to the stadium. The esmeralda team should get ready for the warmup routine in less than 30 minutes.

The Rebano could tie without scoring to go to the final, however, the option to make the match more difficult for Leon if they score more than two goals, looks interesting. The proposal of the locals coincides with what the Jalisco team is probably looking for; to attack in transitions at speed. 

Although a draw is enough for León, we will surely see the locals proposing more of the game in the search for variants to be able to get ahead on the overall score. We expect a match in which Nacho Ambriz's team will take possession of the ball.

Between Mena and Montes could be the key.
 

Less than two hours away from the kickoff.

El Conejito was negative for Covid and will be able to be for the return in Leon. Yesterday he was present at the training and Vucetich can take him into account tonight.

Less than three hours remain before the ball rolls in Leon and the first finalist of the Guard1anes 2020 tournament is defined.

Club Leon has 3 yellow cards per 0 of Chivas and both teams could score 1 goal each one. Fernando Navarro and Luis Montes from Club Leon were the 2 most valuable players of the 1st game of this Liguilla MX Semifinal that today will take place to win a place in the big final!

According to our statistics, the possession of the ball in the first game was also won by the Lion Club for 63% of the time with the ball. Chivas only needed 37% to tie the game.
He gave 493 passes through 288 of Chivas with a passes accurary percentage of 83% of them as successful passes for 73% of the successful passes of Guadalajara.

Leon shot on goal in the first leg, much more than its rival, Chivas, 20 times by 10 of the Guadalajara in the first match of the Liguilla Semifinal 2020.

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Gudiño, Ponce, Sepúlveda, Mier, Sánchez, Molina, Torres, Calderón, Beltrán, Antuna, Peralta.

 

Cota; Tesillo, Mosquera, Barreiro, Navarro, Montes, Aquino, Meneses, Campbell, Mena, Gigliotti.

If Chivas make it to the final, they will play the second leg in Mexico city.

If Chivas makes it to the next round, regardless of the winner between Pumas and Cruz Azul, they will play the first leg at Akron Stadium and the second leg in Mexico City.

Given the controversy with its goalkeeper, Rodolfo Cota, after the penalty in the first leg, the esmeraldas showed their support to the goalkeeper for the return leg.

Chivas drew 1-1 at home, so a win by the slightest difference would see them through to the final.

Similarly, a draw of more than two goals or more would be enough for them.

In spite of not winning the first match, Nacho Ambriz's team has the advantage of having scored a goal as visitors, besides having finished the tournament with the best position in the table.

 

The León vs Chivas match will be played at the stadium León, in Guanajuato, Mexico.

The kick-off is scheduled at 10pm ET.

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