Chivas ran rampant over local rival Tecos, as Marco Fabian netted a hat-trick and Erick Torres added two in a thrashing that put Chivas just one point behind leading Santos Laguna.
The home team looked dominant from the opening whistle, and it took only seven minutes for Torres to find the first goal of the game. He was left with a simple tap-in at the far post after Miguel Ponce rolled a ball across the goal that Tecos couldn't get a touch on.
Despite continuing to dominate, Chivas would need to wait until the final part of the first half to tack onto the scoreline, with Fabian grabbing two in the space of five minutes. His first came in the 33rd minute when he broke from the middle and squeezed a near post finish past Jose Martinez. However, the goal proved controversial, not because of the circumstances in which it was scored, but because Fabian celebrated by performing a mock execution-style killing of a teammate, which ruffled feathers in violence-racked Mexico.
Fabian's second resulted from sloppy defending that allowed the 22-year-old to round Martinez and score, making it 3-0 for Chivas going into the half
Eduardo Lillingston pulled one back for the visitors in the 54th minute with some patient touches and a placed finish across the body of Ernesto Michel. However, it was only a brief respite as Fabian redirected a long-range shot from Antonio Gallardo for his hat-trick.
Torres grabbed his second of the game a minute later with a fine diving header off a feed from Jesus Sanchez. U.S. striker Herculez Gomez pulled back a consolation for Tecos with a one-time finish following a second yellow card to Chivas' Kristian Alvarez, but there was to be no more scoring in front of a jubilant crowd at the Estadio Omnilife.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Chivas Guadalajara Finish Off Estudiantes Tecos 5-2
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