It took a while, but finally Javier “Chicharito” Hernández, the top figure of Chivas, He scored his first goal on his return to Mexican football, something that had not happened for 14 years when he began his career in various leagues around the world that allowed him to defend the colors of Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, West Ham United, Sevilla and LA Galaxy.
Javier Hernández scored his first goal of the Clausura 2024 tournament by opening the scoring in the 3-2 victory over Puebla. The score came in the 33rd minute of the match on date 14 of the team led by Argentine Fernando Gago, which allowed the Guadalajara squad to place itself in ninth place in the overall table of the competition.
The Chivas forward received a pass inside the area and with a cross shot he managed to beat the Puebla goalkeeper to celebrate a goal again in Mexican soccer, in something that had not happened since March 27, 2010, when the “Sacred Flock” beat Santos Laguna 6-2.
In that match 14 years ago he managed to beat Oswaldo Sánchez, who acted in the Coahuila team after a brilliant stage in Chivas.
For now, Javier Hernández has already given his first joy to his fans who expect so much from the top star of Chivas and in whom they have high hopes that will lead them to the dispute for the League title. The other scorers of the goals in Chivas’ victory were the work of Erick Gutiérrez and Roberto “Piojo” Alvarado, while Diego de Buen and Alberto Herrera scored for Puebla.
Seven games later…
Javier Hernández had had certain adaptation problems with Chivaswhere it took him seven games since his return to Liga MX, to be able to score a goal, but little by little he has been picking up the pace and it is seen that his speed conditions are still intact to be able to help Chivas in the best of the tournament. Closing 2024.
Even his poor offensive production in the duels against Cruz Azul and América, in both the Liga MX and Concachampions tournaments, were attributed to the few minutes of activity he was having in the lineup after returning from a year of inactivity due to an injury he suffered last year as a player for the LA Galaxy. Major League Soccer (MLS).
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