Ramirez Blames Defensive Instability For Chivas' Lousy Opener

Defensive problems before their game even started wound up destroying Chivas on Saturday, manager Paco Ramirez said.

Aug 2, 2009 2:16:35 PM

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Francisco Ramirez- Chivas Manager (Mexsport)
Chivas lost the first home game of the season to Tigres by a margin of 3-1. At the opening of the Apertura 2009, the Chivas defense let four goals. After the poor performance, several elements of the team came out to speak of the performance of the team.  

Captain Ramon Morales quickly dispersed the blame among the team and said that they all equally deserved the blame for the night’s loss.  
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“It’s a loss in the end, and that’s what matters. It’s everyone’s fault and we all messed up. It was us, the ones on the pitch. It wasn’t Paco (Ramirez), or Jorge (Vergara)’s fault. It was ours, the players, and that’s it.”  

Manager Francisco Ramirez lamented the fact that Tigres were able to easily get past the defense, and stated Johnny Magallon’s and Aaron Galindo’s performances would determine games.  

“It’s important that Aaron Galindo as well as Johnny (Magallon) improve in these situations because they’re the base of the plans. We have to start with a solid defense to win games,” said Ramirez at a post game press conference.  

Chivas were also missing another regular in the back line, Hector Reynoso, who was serving out his punishment after receiving a red card in the previous game against Toluca.  

“Defensively, we weren’t there. In reality we couldn’t stop Itamar (Batista) and my central defenders didn’t have their best night.”


However, it was Aaron Galindo who came out and took part of the blame for the team’s poor performance.  

“I take responsibility for the loss because I am the leader of the defense. In the first half I didn’t give the orders to change the back to a line of four, and I made a few errors. I think that it’s been difficult for us to play well, and to find ourselves on the pitch. It was a bad game. We didn‘t know how to position ourselves well, we left many spaces, and unfortunately the goals came quickly which led us to lose the game. ”

Andrea Martinez, Goal.com

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