The Chivas del Guadalajara could not take advantage of the inertia of the victory of the last classic over America, because this Wednesday, after waiting almost 90 minutes due to the storm that hit the capital of Jalisco, they missed a penalty and could only tie 0-0 with Tigres in their pending match of matchday 1.

Unfortunately, the squad led by Argentine Gabriel Milito did not know how to take advantage of the best moments they had in the second half when Mexican-American Efrain Alvarez missed a penalty in the 72nd minute by giving it to the hands of the Argentine goalkeeper of the felines Nahuel Guzman, who ended up becoming the key man for the northerners to add a point.

A duel that undoubtedly had the challenge of waiting more than an hour and a half of constant storm that seemed to put the Akron stadium field in terrible conditions, but in the end they passed the tough test of nature and showed that they are ready to face a competition like the World Cup no matter how adverse the weather conditions are.

In this way, Chivas wasted the great opportunity to add the third victory of the championship and the second in a row, simply due to the fact that they did not know how to put the ball in the Tigres goal when they went ahead, supported by the entries of Javier Hernandez and Armando “La Hormiga” Gonzalez who seemed to be the determining factor with a ball crashed into the post of the visitors' goal and then caused the maximum penalty that ended up being missed.

The details

Both Chivas and Tigres, as well as 30 thousand fans who gathered at the Akron stadium knew how to face a high magnitude storm that put everyone to the test and finally gave way to the pending game of the first day regardless of the delay of more than an hour and a half.

In this way the match went from less to more with a first half to forget, where both teams were very speculative, with excessive measurement of forces,until Bryan “Cotorra” Gonzalez found himself with the ball in the 26th minute and almost caused a mishap against Nahuel Guzman.

Then, Tigres reacted until the 45th minute when Sebastian Cordova unleashed a shot that just went over the crossbar, but that was all in a first half that will go down in history for its lack of flashiness and footballing resources from both teams.

The other side of the coin

For the second half, Chivas had a better performance, although Tigres were the team that caused danger with arrivals from Uruguayan Fernando Gorrarian and Argentine Angel Correa, but the goalkeeper of the red and whites, Raul Rangel, prevented his goal from falling.

But after that, the entry of Armando Gonzalez and Javier Hernandez made Chivas change, as also the entry of Ricky Ledezma made there be more sense in the midfield that in the first half.

Thus Gonzalez began to make his presence felt with a one-on-one against Nahuel Guzman in the 58th minute that the Argentine goalkeeper sent to a corner kick. Then Gonzalez himself crashed the ball into the crossbar.

Once again, the Ant in the 61st minute provoked the penalty that Efrain Alvarez missed in the 62nd minute when he gave the ball into the hands of the Argentine goalkeeper and with that the clearest option of being able to achieve victory in the match went away, settling for a goalless draw.