Chivas expects tough clash

Chivas USA expects a tough clash against Real Salt Lake at The Home Depot Center on Saturday.

Real Salt Lake won the first leg 1-0, but the Chivas players expects them to be aggressive in the second leg as well.

“Knowing them and knowing their coach (Jason Kreis), I wouldn’t think they would come in here and play defensively,” Chivas USA defender Shavar Thomas said.

“We’ve played them a number of times now under their new coach and he’s an attacking guy and he’s going to come in here and throw everything they have because they want to make it to the next round.”

Midfielder Jesse Marsch continued: “They feel that their team is better when they go after teams. I feel that they are going to come in here and try and push the pace of the game a little bit. Whether they are going to be able to close down space on a bigger field or not is yet to be seen.

“That’s something we need to try and do as well, to push the pace to make us harder to play against and make it harder on them to pass easily and find much space. We’re going to try and push the game a little bit and take it to them.”

[Source: MLSnet.com]