Morelia favourites for feisty fight facing Mineros de Zacatecas

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Competition: Mexico Liga de Expansión MX
Competition: Fri 29.April
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Generalísimo José María Morelos y Pavón (35000 seats)

Morelia have performed really well so far this season, being 3rd position in the table. Mineros de Zacatecas have a view both direction in the table from their 10th position.

Insights:
  • Morelia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Mineros de Zacatecas have the most conceded goals (28) in Liga de Expansión MX

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Morelia form and stats

4-3-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Liga de Expansión MX numbers at home for Morelia so far this season.

An away draw last time out for Morelia, facing Mineros de Zacatecas in a game that ended 3-3. Opportunity lost for Morelia in the Mineros de Zacatecas match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. Ibarra was able to secure the draw 3-3 in the game against Mineros de Zacatecas after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today?

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Pumas Tabasco.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Morelia have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 19 games) they have won eight times, drawn four and lost seven.

Morelia has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. Morelia have conceded 12 in these home matches.

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Mineros de Zacatecas form and stats

3 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses. That’s the product of Mineros de Zacatecas, who have the most conceded goals (28) in Liga de Expansión MX, playing as the away team in the Liga de Expansión MX this season. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Mineros de Zacatecas's last three away games as they have all been lost.

Zacatecas delivered a 3-3 draw playing at home against Morelia in their previous match. An inspired comeback made the scores level in Mineros de Zacatecas's duel with Morelia. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 3-3 after Torres found the equalizer.

Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Tlaxcala.

Zacatecas are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is six wins, three draws and ten defeats. From a total of 19 matches.

The travelling fans enjoy Mineros de Zacatecas's attacking play in away games, having scored 13 goals in 8 league matches away. In the opposite end, Zacatecas have conceded 14 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

It's not the first time these teams get together this campaign, as the results database show this recent game: Mineros de Zacatecas - Morelia 3-3. As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's four Morelia victories, two draws and one Mineros de Zacatecas win. Over/under statistics; six of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

MoreliaJ. Ramírez Díaz
J. Ramírez Díaz
9 goals
MoreliaD. Abella Calleja
D. Abella Calleja
6 goals

Morelia missing players

Mineros de Zacatecas missing players

Morelia Mineros de Zacatecas
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
35 17 6 Played P 4 17 35
15 8 2 Won W 2 6 14
10 4 2 Drew D 0 2 5
10 5 2 Lost L 2 9 16
51 25 8 Scored S 8 25 53
44 21 9 Conceded C 4 25 51
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 94%
74% 71% 83% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 76% 74%
57% 59% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 65% 63%
31% 35% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 41% 34%
6% 6% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 18% 20%
57% 59% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 59% 57%
29% 24% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 29% 31%
14% 18% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 18% 17%
 
5.3 5.5 5.8 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.9 5.1
4.7 4.6 5 Corners against (avg) C A 6.5 6.9 5.5
2.3 1.9 2.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.8 2.4
5 1 0 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
10.3 11.6 10.8 Shots (avg) S ( 4.8 7.9 9
4.6 5.1 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 4 4.1
32% 29% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 89% 37% 37%
 
8.8 8.6 6.5 Shots against (avg) S A 8.2 9.8 8.7
3.8 4.2 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.8 4.8 3.9
Key stats in Liga de Expansión MX this season:
  • Mineros de Zacatecas have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Mineros de Zacatecas have the most conceded goals (28) in Liga de Expansión MX
  • Mineros de Zacatecas have the most conceded goals in the first half (26) in Liga de Expansión MX
  • Mineros de Zacatecas have the most matches over the total-line (16) in Liga de Expansión MX
  • Mineros de Zacatecas have the most scored goals in the first half (28) in Liga de Expansión MX
  • Morelia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Morelia haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Dorados 16 11 4 1 34 13 9 7 1 1 21 8 7 4 3 0 13 5 21 41
2 Atlante 16 9 4 3 22 9 8 6 1 1 12 4 8 3 3 2 10 5 13 33
3 Morelia 16 8 4 4 22 18 9 4 3 2 13 12 7 4 1 2 9 6 4 32
4 Celaya 16 7 4 5 20 16 7 4 2 1 11 5 9 3 2 4 9 11 4 28
5 Pumas Tabasco 16 5 8 3 16 15 7 0 5 2 3 7 9 5 3 1 13 8 1 28
6 Universidad Guadalajara 16 7 4 5 21 18 7 4 2 1 11 6 9 3 2 4 10 12 3 27
7 Tampico Madero 16 4 10 2 23 18 9 2 5 2 14 13 7 2 5 0 9 5 5 24
8 Cimarrones de Sonora 16 6 3 7 22 22 7 3 1 3 9 7 9 3 2 4 13 15 0 24
9 Venados 16 6 3 7 17 19 9 4 2 3 12 7 7 2 1 4 5 12 -2 23
10 Mineros de Zacatecas 16 6 1 9 24 28 8 3 0 5 11 14 8 3 1 4 13 14 -4 21
11 Correcaminos UAT 16 5 4 7 19 27 8 3 3 2 11 11 8 2 1 5 8 16 -8 20
12 Tepatitlan de Morelos 16 4 6 6 17 20 8 3 2 3 10 11 8 1 4 3 7 9 -3 19
13 Tlaxcala 16 4 6 6 15 20 8 2 5 1 8 6 8 2 1 5 7 14 -5 19
14 Raya2 16 4 5 7 16 18 9 3 2 4 9 7 7 1 3 3 7 11 -2 18
15 Zacatepec FC 16 3 7 6 14 17 8 2 3 3 8 9 8 1 4 3 6 8 -3 16
16 Tapatio 16 3 5 8 11 27 7 1 2 4 6 14 9 2 3 4 5 13 -16 16
17 Cancun 16 3 4 9 14 22 8 1 2 5 7 10 8 2 2 4 7 12 -8 15

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The Ascenso MX, or Liga Ascenso, is the second level of the football league pyramid in Mexico. It has 15 teams competing in two league tournaments per year, the Apertura (opening) and the Clausura (closing). Only one team is promoted to the top league in Mexico, the Liga MX.