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Saturday’s pressure-packed Liga MX match between giants Tigres UANL and Chivas de Guadalajara will carry significant playoff implications in the battle to get into the liguilla as only one regular-season match remains after this weekend.
Tigres (22 points) sit in fourth place in the Liga MX Apertura standings; the top four finishers earn a direct ticket to the liguilla quarterfinals. Head coach Miguel Herrera wants to see his team win out to clinch one of those top four spots, but they’ve been held to draws in four of their last five home games.
Chivas have only three fewer points than Tigres (19 points) but they’re all the way down in 12th place, occupying the final postseason berth. Teams that finish fifth through 12th in the regular-season standings qualify to play a single-elimination play-in match — also known as the repechaje — with a berth in the liguilla quarterfinals on the line.
MORE: Updated Liga MX standings heading into Saturday
It’s a tall task for Chivas to come away with a win: They haven’t won a match in El Volcan in 10 years and Tigres are one of two teams undefeated at home during the Apertura season (2-0-5). Any Chivas hopes of getting a result will have to start with an airtight defense that keeps Tigres star forward Andre-Pierre Gignac off the board. If the likes of Necaxa and Pumas UNAM earned 0-0 draws on the road against Tigres in recent weeks, Chivas will feel like they have a chance, especially given their penchant for playing low-scoring matches.
Sporting News will follow the match live, providing score updates, commentary and highlights as they happen.
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Tigres UANL vs. Chivas live score
| 1H | 2H | Final | |
| Tigres | 1 | — | — |
| Chivas | 0 | — | — |
Goals:
TIG — Andre-Pierre Gignac — 4th min.
Tigres UANL vs. Chivas live updates, highlights
(All times Eastern)
28th min.: YELLOW – Another yellow, this one for Chivas right back Cisneros who threw a ball onto the field while Tigres were trying to take the throw-in. Unsportsmanlike play.
23rd min.: YELLOW – Tigres defender Hugo Ayala gets cautioned for ramming into the back of Isaac Brizuela.
20th min.: SUB – Nene Beltran comes in for Chivas midfielder Sergio Flores who picked up a knock for Chivas.
17th min.: Tigres creates a chance off a throw-in and Diente Lopez sends a ball across the front of the goal.
11th min.: Chivas winger Isaac Brizuela wins a corner. He’s operating on the left and Canelo Angulo is on the right.
7th min.: Cameras show that Nahuel Guzman stepped on the foot of Canelo Angulo’s foot before the corner kick. And then Angulo returned the favor and Guzman hit the deck. VAR and the officials didn’t act on it.
6th min.: We have a good one on our hands. Tigres left back Javier Aquino has to clear the ball off the line and then Chivas get another header on the ensuing corner but it finishes high.
4th min.: Goal Tigres! The home team went down the other end and won a free kick. Gignac took it and scored it.
2nd min.: Chivas chance! Cross from Mayorga on the left and two Chivas players get in each other’s way at the near post. Chivas are not just going to sit back.
1st min.: We’re off.
10:00 p.m.: Nine of 11 of the Tigres starters take their team photo in masks. Chaka Rodriguez and Rafael Carioca didn’t bother.
9:34 p.m.: If you’re Chivas, should interim head coach Marcelo Michel Leano be given more time? Or do they try to make a run for Nacho Ambriz?
9:30 p.m.: The last time that Chivas beat a Miguel Herrera side was 2012:
9:29 p.m.: It would’ve been football legend Diego Armando Maradona’s 61st birthday and Tigres goalkeeper Nahuel Guzman, who’s Argentina, commemorates the occasion.
8:53 p.m.: Tigres fans are dressing up for Halloween a day early.
Tigres UANL vs. Chivas lineups
Tigres manager Miguel Herrera confirmed that the team will be without the injured Diego Reyes and Florian Thauvin for the match.
Tigres UANL starting lineup (5-3-2, left to right): 1-Nahuel Guzman-GK — 20-Javier Aquino, 3-Carlos Salcedo, 19-Guido Pizarro, 4-Hugo Ayala, 28-Luis ‘Chaka’ Rodriguez — 23-Luis Quinones, 5-Rafael Carioca, 6-Juan Vigon — 10-Andre-Pierre Gignac, 11-Nicolas ‘Diente’ Lopez
Tigres subs (10): 30-Miguel Ortega-GK, 8-Francisco Venegas, 14-Juan Sanchez Purata, 17-Leonardo Fernandez, 18-Aldo Cruz, 22-Raymundo Fulgencio, 29-Jesus Duenas, 32-Carlos Gonzalez, 35-Jordan Sierra, 192-David Ayala
Chivas head coach Marcelo Michel Leano won’t be able to count on Mexican international Alexis Vega, who’s still on the mend after picking up an injury with the national team in October. Luis Olivas will also not be traveling as he continues to recover, while Antonio Rodriguez is unavailable due to a recent operation.
Chivas starting lineup (4-2-3-1, left to right): 1-Raul Gudino-GK — 33-Carlos Cisneros, 14-Antonio Briseno, 3-Gilberto Sepulveda, 2-Manuel Mayorga — 30-Sergio Flores, 5-Jesus Molina (c) — 19-Jesus ‘Canelo’ Angulo, 29-Alan Torres, 11-Isaac Brizuela — 6-Cesar Huerta
Chivas subs (10): 23-Miguel Jimenez-GK, 17-Jesus Sanchez, 21-Hiram Mier, 16-Miguel Ponce, 20-Fernando Beltran, 26-Cristian Calderon, 7-Uriel Antuna, 18-Ronaldo Cisneros, 9-Angel Zaldivar, 24-Oribe Peralta
How to watch Tigres UANL vs. Chivas
- Date: Saturday, Oct. 30
- Time: 10 p.m. ET
- TV Channels: Univision, TUDN
- Streaming: fuboTV
The big match from Matchday 16 in the Liga MX Apertura will air on both Univision and TUDN. Both channels are streamed on fuboTV , which is available for a free 7-day trial to new subscribers .
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