Querétaro beat Guadalajara Chivas 2:0 at the Estadio Akron in the Apertura round ten of Liga MX. Ali Ávila opened the scoring in the twelfth minute and Mateo Coronel added a second in the 68th. The visitors left with three points while the hosts go on watching.
By then the match had already settled into a pattern that would stay until the end. The hosts controlled the ball but couldn't find the right pass. Querétaro waited, took their chances and scored when it mattered. And here's the thing — the game didn't change after the first goal.
Bayron Duarte picked up a yellow card in the forty-first minute and Lucas Abascia followed in the eighty-seventh. Omar Govea saw red in the 90th minute, which wasn't going to help anyone. The hosts made seven substitutions, the visitors six, trying to change something that had already been decided.
Guadalajara held 75 per cent possession, worked the ball around and created two big chances. Querétaro had 25 per cent, created three, and converted their expected goals better. The hosts fired 18 shots, five on target. The visitors shot six times, six on target.
We had given Guadalajara a win with 54 per cent confidence. The match went another way. It was the finishing that made the difference — not the possession, not the pressure. The visitors took what they were given.
The hosts sit second with 18 points from ten games. Querétaro are fourth with 17 from nine. A result that doesn't change the table much but tells you everything about who was ready tonight.
