be the scorers of Chivas In the preseason towards the Clausura 2023, it was not enough for Ángel Zaldívar or Santiago Ormeño to be taken into account by the coach Veljko Paunovic in this tournament, since none convinced the Serbian.
One already out -sent to Atlético de San Luis- and another warned that he does not enter into plans, Ángel Zaldívar and Santiago Ormeño were the ones who raised their hands in the rojiblanco attack in the preparation duels, in which they scored 3 and 5 goals, respectivelybut to no avail.
But without a doubt, the one that attracted the most attention was the case of Ormeño, who although he was a starter on a few occasions, participated in most of the pre-season duels and scored several goals.
He started the preseason scoring against the Colima alligatorslater turned the Necaxa in the second friendly, and his best night, without a doubt, was the Cup match for Mexico against Santos Laguna, where he scored a hat-trick.
It seemed that before the departure of Zaldívar to San Luis, Ormeño would start the Clausura 2023 as a starter, but surprisingly he was deleted from the calland later notified that it was not part of the plans.
Zaldívar scored a triplet against Caimanes de Colima, and in this case, his departure was already early due to having a bad step in Chivas that it cost him the boos of the fans; Chelo will have a rematch against the rojiblancos this Friday in the Matchday 2 match.
Ormeño came from two bad years in Liga MXaccumulating only two annotations, however, the preseason had suited him, and now it seems that he will not even celebrate a year in the rojiblanco squad, because they are already looking for accommodation.
He signed a 3-year contract in 2022 -expires in July 2025- after arriving unexpectedly due to the injury of José Juan Macías.
At Apertura 2022, his first tournament with the Sacred Flock, Santiago scored 1 goal in 387 minutes and played 12 gamesthe lowest number of Chivas attackers, since Zaldívar (4), Alexis Vega (3) and Roberto Alvarado (2) moved the rival nets more times and only matched it, José González with a score.
Who won Santiago Ormeño’s place in Chivas?
Given the desire to have a ‘killer’, Chivas rearranged their forwards, signed Daniel Ríos, who in 2022 he scored 7 goals in 1,417 minutes with Charlotte FC of the MLS and recovered Ronaldo Cisneros, loaned to Atlanta United, who also made the same 7 goals, but in 1737 minutes.
From home, kept Jesús “Tepa” Gonzálezwho will play more with the subsidiary Tapatío, from the Expansion League, and they will wait the recovery of José Juan Macíaswho is still recovering from an injury, although he is expected to be ready between February and March, and little by little they will take on the youth squad, Luis Fernando Puente.
Thus, the options for Chivas strikers before Ormeño are: Ríos, Cisneros, Macías, González and Puente.
Chivas got rid of several forwards
The overpopulation of forwards forced Chivas to get rid of several, who went on loan and for this reason, in addition to Zaldívar, who went to Atlético de San Luis, also yielded to Sebastián Martínez to Tepatitlán FC of the Expansion League and to Paolo Yrizar to the White Roosters of Querétaro.
