There will be no rescheduling this time.

No waiting. No playing favorites.

Club Tijuana Xoloitscuintles will play its Week 3 match up as scheduled Saturday at one of the newest, state-of-the-art stadiums against one of Mexico's most popular and wealthiest clubs.

The Xolos travel to face Chivas de Guadalajara, the storied franchise with ten league championships, an army of supporters virtually everywhere in the world and rich in history, tradition.

Chivas is a house name brand in Mexico. It's so important and popular that the team can decide when or who to play. That's exactly what it did last summer after a scheduling conflict. Chivas favored Spanish giant Barcelona instead of the Xolos, the newest team in Mexico's Primera División, the country's top soccer circuit. The Chivas-Xolos match was pushed back until September, leaving a city and its fans waiting for a high caliber event.

Not this time. There is no exhibition game in Miami with a high payday for Chivas.

Only a regular league match against a Xolos team that is off to its best start since being promoted to the First Division.

Tijuana beat Monterrey with a last second goal at Estadio Caliente last week to give the Xolos a 1-0-1 record and four points.

"The win gives us plenty of confidence but we know there is still a long road ahead and this tournament is only starting," said the Xolos' Juan Pablo Santiago. "We shouldn't relax not even one bit because we have one objective and we want to reach it as soon as possible."

And that would be win and prevent demotion to the minor league. That all depends on results.

Tijuana appears to be settling in as unit that is beginning to gain confidence with the players coach Antonio Mohamed has chosen to start and the his mix of back-ups on the bench.

The Xolos matched up well against Monterrey for most of the game and broke through with the win. The team will need to do more of that against Guadalajara, which is coming off back-to-back losses to clubs considered to be two of the weakest in the league, Atlante and Jaguares.

Chivas is yet to score a goal in the 2012 Clausura tournament. It appears to be heading in the opposite direction as the Xolos. But the coach said Tijuana can't look ahead and take Chivas' struggles lightly.

"We are going to face a tough opponent," Mohamed said. "We're at their home and our key is to stick to our strengths, our strength as a unit and team."

Tijuana appears to have gotten a break prior to the start of the match.

Chivas captain and veteran Héctor Reynoso will not play against the Xolos. He is serving a one-match red card suspension.

It was Reynoso who headed in a corner kick late in the second half of Chivas' 1-0 win against the Xolos last summer in the Apertura tournament.

Reynoso's goal ended what amounted to be one large soccer party in Tijuana with a packed Estadio Caliente. It was considered the most important soccer match in the city's history: The first time Tijuana had one of Mexico's storied franchises visiting to take on its own club in the First Division.

It was a memorable moment even if the Xolos, the city and its fans had to wait.

ivan.orozco@sandiegored.com