Goalie Makes for Exciting Scoreless Tie
by Rod Hughes
Alajuela showed its old form finally this season, confronting Heredia with its old brand of wonderful soccer, crisp attacks, well planned approaches and all the trimmings. And they came away Wednesday night with no points earned, thanks to Heredia goalie Ricardo González.
González may as well have built a brick wall in front of the goal mouth. What incoming missiles he didn’t catch, he batted away. As for his Heredia teammates, let us be charitable here. They were as poorly distributed on the pitch as chessmen after the board has been carelessly bumped. Worse, they seemed to be passing in slow motion, allowing Alajuela’s defense time to plot azimuth and trajectory on a pocket calculator.
If anything, Wednesday night showed that you can’t judge a side by its uniform. With its red and yellow striped jerseys, Heredia has always seemed to this reporter to look like some kind of vicious wasps. But they may be butterflies after all…