that's what I want but I also think that's how the player would like to play, enjoyable for them and enjoyable for the crowd."
Flores is aiming to realign his forces with a more attacking thrust, trying to find a No. 10 that was lost when Adolfo Bautista left Guadalajara during the offseason, as de la Torre put out the team with a defensive look in the first part of the season. He is expected to play Santana and Omar Bravo as true strikers, while Alberto Medina and Pineda will attack from the right and left flanks respectively, and Ramon Morales will operate as a holding midfielder with Sergio Avila prompting the attack.
D.C. UNITED: The current overall leaders in Major League Soccer continued their roll, coming back from a first-half deficit with four goals in 19 minutes after the break for a 4-1 home victory against Toronto FC on Saturday night, extending their unbeaten streak to 11 games in league play. Marc Burch, Fred, Jaime Moreno and Luciano Emilio all scored for the Black-and-Red after TFC's freekick opener.
But Burch will miss the second leg after he was sent off just before halftime of the match last Wednesday. Fred's appearance could also be in question after he left at halftime against Toronto FC with a groin strain. Right back Bryan Namoff suffered a thigh injury which forced him off during the Chivas match and he did not play against Toronto, but he is expected to be available.
United firmly expects they will need at least a goal from their visit to Mexico, and they do have Luciano Emilio, who leads MLS with 20 goals and scored a late goal in the first leg when the clubs met in March in the CONCACAF Champions' Cup.
"It's going to be a very difficult game," said Emilio. "We can't go in thinking that we have any type of advantage. We have to go in thinking that the game is 0-0, which it is. That's the type of mentality we need to have success."
Still, United's back line will face a real test -- especially if Chivas are looking to pin them in from the start. "That wasn't fun at all," said Josh Gros after the first game. "Those guys were some of the fastest players I've played against my whole life. I tried my best, and hopefully I did all right."
THE PAST: In the first leg, United played a man down for 46 minutes and were outshot 21-5 for the game, but still got goals from Ben Olsen and Clyde Simms on either side of halftime and held on for a 2-1 victory. Sergio Santana scored the Chivas goal shortly after Simms' 55th-minute strike put the 10-man United up 2-0.
In March, the teams met in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. United got a late goal from Emilio to secure a 1-1 draw in the home leg, then Jaime Moreno put United ahead on aggregate after a half-hour in the second leg. But goals from Adolfo Bautista and Gonzalo Pineda sent Chivas through, before they eventually lost to Pachuca in the final.
The teams first met in international competition in 1997, when they played to a 2-2 draw in the third-place match of the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. An MLS team has never defeated a Mexican team in Mexico in an official competition.
In 2005, United played to a 1-1 first-leg draw with Universidad Catolica of Chile in their first ever appearance in Copa Sudamericana, only to concede two late goals after going up by two goals in the opening half-hour on the return match, losing the series 4-3 on aggregate. This is the first appearance by Chivas de Guadalajara in the competition.
