The team is placed with this victory in fourth place in the standings
Santos Laguna got a 1-1 draw at the home of San Luis
Chivas de Guadalajara of the Serbian-Spanish coach Veljko Paunovic They maintained their upward trend in the Clausura of Mexican soccerby beating the Pumas UNAM 2-1 this Saturday in their own stadium.
Daniel Ríos and Carlos Cisneros converted for Guadalajaraopportune before the defensive oversights of the university students, who discounted with a goal from the Argentine Juan Ignacio Dinenno.
Chivas took the lead with a header from Ríos in the 6th minute off a pass from Roberto Alvarado and decided the victory in minute 33 with a headshot from Cisneroswho took advantage of the poor mark, in a corner kick.
For the second part, the home team let go of several offensive opportunities until in 1976 Dinenno made his sex goal of the year, heading in a pass from Pablo Monroy.
The Pumas struggled, but the Chivas stood up well on defense and they stopped the home team that at the last minute suffered the expulsion of the Brazilian Diogo de Oliveira.
Guadalajara added three points that lifted the team to fourth place in the standings with four wins, three draws, one loss and 15 points, six less than Monterrey, who beat Necaxa 2-1 this Saturday.
The Argentines Rogelio Funes Mori and Germán Berterame scored for Monterrey, which reached seven consecutive victories and the Spanish Edgar Méndez discounted for Necaxa.
Monterrey has seven wins, one loss and 21 points, two more than the UANL Tigers, winners 1-0 of the Atlas.
Argentine Nicolás Ibáñez converted the goal with which the Tigers secured the victoryin a duel of alternating dominance in which both teams let go of scoring opportunities.
In the other game this Saturday, the Argentine Lucas González converted saved for Santos Laguna a 1-1 draw at the home of San Luiswho had taken advantage with a goal from the Argentine naturalized German Mateo Klimowicz.
The eighth day began this Friday, when Cruz Azul came out of its streak of bad resultsby beating Puebla 1-3, and León drew 0-0 at the Juárez FC stadium.
This Saturday the Pumas UNAM will receive the Chivas de Guadalajara of the Serbian-Spanish coach Veljko Paunovic and on Sunday they will play Querétaro-Mazatlán, América-Tijuana and Pachuca-Toluca.