At Chivas we're always ready to fight for the title - Rubén González

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·23 September 2026

At Chivas we're always ready to fight for the title - Rubén González

Guadalajara continues its preparations for Matchday 10 of the Apertura 2026, when it will host Querétaro’s Gallos Blancos at the AKRON Stadium. Aiming to keep up its good run in the tournament, the Rebaño is working at Verde Valle with its sights set on earning 3 more points in front of its fans.

Before this matchup, Rubén González spoke to the media in a press conference and addressed several topics related to the current sporting moment of the rojiblanco team, from the internal competition within the squad and the support for the players who have been given the opportunity to be called up to the National Team, to the mentality with which Chivas approaches every match and its goal of remaining a title contender.

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Here are the best quotes from “Oso” González:

On the match against Querétaro:

We always go one match at a time; now it’s Querétaro, and we’re going out there determined to get 3 points. The face we’ve always shown is the one from the first half (in the Clásico de México), but we also have to be ready to withstand pressure, show a good attitude, and look for results.

On Chivas’ objective in AP26:

At Chivas, we’re always ready to fight for the title, and to remain contenders we have to do it one match at a time. If we keep showing, match by match, the way we play, we’ll be at the top, but there will also be results where you draw; still, we’ll make the Liguilla, and we know that’s a different tournament, although it’s always better to play it at home.

On the squad’s internal competition: At the end of the day, we’re here at Chivas and there’s good competition internally; we know anyone can play. Our job is not to let up and to wait for your chance to come at some point, whether it’s 5, 10 minutes, whatever it may be, or from the bench, to support the teammates who are in the starting lineup. On the players called up to the Mexican National Team with Rafael Márquez as head coach We’re happy for the players who were called up to the Mexican National Team, but we also feel we’re capable of playing and showing what we’re made of. I think that’s what has helped us as a team—that whoever is out there can do even better than the other. On promotion and relegation in Mexican soccer: Chivas is in favor of promotion and relegation. I had the chance to be at Coras and Zacatepec, and in the end, the competition itself creates the possibility of having a better squad, and that’s really what it’s about—the hunger it gives you to always keep growing in soccer. I think I’ll always be in favor of whatever helps our soccer. At the moment, I don’t think there has been any contact (with Liga de Expansión teams), but in the end we’re open to dialogue. On the result in El Clásico de México In the end there will always be good or bad comments, and in the face of that, it’s up to us to stick together as a team. Here we talk things through, about how we’re doing and where we stand, so we can go one match at a time. We must avoid making the same mistakes again and keep fine-tuning things so we continue improving match by match. On Kevin Castañeda and Jordan Carrillo I think they both know what club they arrived at, and they know that if they’re playing they have to give everything, and if they have to wait, they have to be patient—all for the good of the team, and all of us are supporting them in whatever is needed.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.