Coach Jose Manuel De La Torre of the Mexican League Champions Chivas says his team’s failure to capitalize on both their goal scoring chances and the fact that the Pro League Club Vibe CT 105 W Connection were down to 10 men in their first leg encounter of the CONCACAF Club Championship quarterfinal match accounted for their loss.
Speaking to the media through an interpreter after his team’s 2-1 loss against the TT Pro League Club, De La Torre said, “We had the numerical advantage and we didn’t take advantage of that. We also didn’t take advantage of the opportunities that were presented to us during the game,” said the disappointed Mexican Coach.
W Connection lost their goal keeper Jan Michael Williams on a red card just 20 minutes into the match and came from behind in the thrilling encounter to beat Chivas 2-1.
Chivas fielded four of their Mexican national team players out of the six currently in their squad. National striker Omar Bravo scored the lone item for the Mexican Club.
De La Torre also recognizes the quality of players that are at W Connection, but believes his team should have done much better.
“W Connection has some good players who play at a really good level but I believe we should have performed at a much higher level,” he said.
Chivas and Vibe CT 105 W Connection would meet again in two weeks time on the 28th of February in Guadalajara, Mexico in the second leg of the quarterfinal of the CONCACAF Club Championship and Coach Jose Manuel De La Torre is very confident that his team’s style of play would get them through to the semifinals.
“We have our system of play and this is our style of play so we are not going to change it. We are going to continue to use our best players in the next match and we would see how our opponents can react to it again,” ended the Chivas Head coach.