🇲🇽 Alexis Vega inspires Chivas to crucial win over Tijuana | OneFootball

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Seamus Leonard·18 April 2021

🇲🇽 Alexis Vega inspires Chivas to crucial win over Tijuana

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Chivas kept their Guard1anes 2021 play-off hopes alive with a deserved home win over Tijuana on Saturday.

Scorers: Vega 49′, Angulo 80′


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José Juan Macías returned to the starting line-up for the hosts, but fluffed his lines when taking a 16th-minute penalty awarded for hand ball.

The striker directed his effort far too close to the middle, thus allowing Xolos goalkeeper Benny Díaz Jáuregui to repel the shot with relative ease.

Neither side could make a first-half breakthrough, but the Flock hit the front just three minutes after the break.

Alexis Vega created some space for himself before unleashing a fierce, bouncing drive from almost 30 yards.

Jesús Ricardo Angulo sealed the victory with 10 minutes remaining by blasting home from close range.

The victory moves Chivas to 16 points and into 13th position in the table, one place above their opponents at the Estadio Akron.

Both sides remain outside the top 12 Liguilla spots on goal difference.