@ Juventud Escuintleca (10th)
G: Zefanias Joao
D: Jorge Gonzalez/Luis Molina/Mynor Monterroso
M: Joaquin Fernandez/Eurico Cassama/Christian Rodriguez/Carlos Gramajo
S: Melvin Martinez/Carlos Chavez/Jorge Castillo
40 -
Cassama to
Martinez for the lateral to
Chavez. Defender misses the interception and on the box feed to
Castillo, the crowd of defenders is too late in catching up to prevent the ball piercing the net
1-0
59 -
Estrada in for
Martinez
66 -
Molina makes a goal-saving interception and
Chavez tracks down the loose ball. Booming kick down the left-center of the pitch lets
Estrada use his fresh legs to outrun the defense and torch the keeper on the 1v1!
Molina has been amazing, but he's also winded, so
Ortiz comes in for him
77 -
Cassama to
Estrada for the first time lateral to
Chavez. Pass into box space, and
Castillo nails it to shut out any discussion of their coming back
3-0
78 - Bleh
3-1
90 - Horrible defending
3-2
3 assists gives
Carlos Chavez and a 9.0 PotM. Also standout were
Jorge Castillo (8.8),
Eurico Cassama (7.6), and
Juan Estrada (7.1 off the bench). Oh, and
Luis Molina with an 8.2 before being subbed out as well.
We nearly blew that one as
Zefanias Joao was nervy all match in his debut.
Mynor Monterroso is out over a month with injury.
So, there's 36 matches - split into what looks like an 18 game opening stage and an 18 game closing stage. I do some more digging and come across this:
Apertura and Clausura - Wikipedia
...Interesting. So there's essentially two seasons in one calendar year, and presumably a four or eight team playoff to determine who is the champion for that mini-season and gets the promotion spot I'm guessing 4 from Group A and 4 from Group B. Which would explain why los Veranos didn't go up the year they finished 1st in the league.
I'll play around with it and see. Anyway, we're halfway through the Apertura, and we're in 5th, one point out of a playoff spot, but well ahead of the 6th place team.
vs Halcones FC (6th)
G: Jose Hernandez
D: Jorge Gonzalez/Francisco Ortiz/Luis Molina
M: Joaquin Fernandez/Eurico Cassama/Christian Rodriguez/Carlos Gramajo
S: Melvin Martinez/Carlos Chavez/Jorge Castillo
12 - Beautiful charge by
Cassama to snipe a clearance. He kicks the ball off the face of a defender and
Martinez pounces on the rebound to pierce the upper net
1-0
31 -
Gonzalez fucked that up.
1-1
51 - After yet another blown shot,
Castillo is yanked for
Estrada and we do our shuffle of strikers
61 - FUCK
1-2
62 - THIS
1-3
64 -
Martinez scores but I won't give a shit unless we come back
2-3
76 - 3$%@#$^@^@%^#%^@%^@
2-4
Jose Hernandez's value is tanking and I can't get rid of him fast enough. Ugh.
@ Barcena (4th)
G: Zefanias Joao
D: Jorge Gonzalez/Francisco Ortiz/Luis Molina
M: Hector Monzon/Eurico Cassama/Christian Rodriguez/Carlos Gramajo
S: Melvin Martinez/Carlos Chavez/Jorge Castillo
Joaquin Fernandez is out with injury over a month.
14 - THAT WAS OFFSIDES!!!
0-1
17 - CAN WE GET A FUCKING CALL, REF?!
0-2
19 - An answer as
Chavez wings out to
Gramajo for the back cross to
Martinez and header in
1-2
43 -
Gramajo is being hemmed by two defenders, but he lofts the ball over the heads and into the box for streaking
Martinez to equalize
2-2
49 -
Mario Molina for shitty ass DR
Luis Molina
66 -
Lopez Castellanos for
Monzon at ML
71 -
Cassama picks up a clearance and passes to
Rodriguez. Box pass into space and
Castillo drills in the diagonal go-ahead goal!!!
3-2
92 - Very last play of the game, they get a corner, and one of their dudes on a yellow gets whistled for a foul and a double yellow just as time expires!!! Holy shit!!!!
8.8 for
Melvin Martinez, 8.5 for
Jorge Castillo, 7.7 for
Cristian Rodriguez and we don't have PotM.
Which is totally fine because we're in a playoff spot at 4th!
The board cries that we're losing money and need to sell players. MAYBE IF YOU DIDN'T SPEND OVER $230,000 A YEAR ON A YOUTH SETUP THAT WOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM!
JHRC.