Betting preview: Pumas Tabasco vs Celaya should be interesting

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Competition: Mexico Liga de Expansión MX
Competition: Wed 02.February
Match begins: 01:05 (UTC)

A very important fixture in Liga de Expansión MX as both participants are challenging for the top league positions. With Pumas Tabasco in 5th place and Celaya placed 4th, this has all the looks of an exciting meeting. Read on to learn more!

Insights:
  • Pumas Tabasco have the fewest matches over the total-line (4) in Liga de Expansión MX
  • Celaya have scored at least twice as many goals away as Pumas Tabasco have scored home.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Liga de Expansión MX.

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Pumas Tabasco form and stats

Pumas Tabasco's struggle is real here with only 5 points collected from 7 Liga de Expansión MX games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-5-2.

The home team returns after drawing with Venados on their last time out; the game ended 2-2.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Tampico Madero in a game that was won 2-0.

This is expected to be a close game, with Pumas Tabasco perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Pumas Tabasco as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Pumas Tabasco has won two of these, drawn five and lost four.

The lack of attacking qualities in Pumas Tabasco means that they have only scored 3 goals in 7 league home games, less than half a goal per match.

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Celaya form and stats

3 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses. That’s the product of Celaya playing as the away team in the Liga de Expansión MX this season.

Celaya go into this game after a win, the home game against Raya2 that ended 2-1.

Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Atlante.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 16 similar matches played by Celaya in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Celaya, four draws and seven defeats.

11 goals have been conceded by Celaya in these games.

Head 2 Head

Celaya - Pumas Tabasco 1-2 was the product when these squads last played each other, some time ago this season. Head-to-head data (for the last three meetings): Pumas Tabasco won one game, zero matches ended with a tie and Celaya got two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / zero

Top Goalscorers

CelayaF. Illescas Mariñelarena
F. Illescas Mariñelarena
7 goals
CelayaD. Jiménez Hernández
D. Jiménez Hernández
7 goals

Pumas Tabasco missing players

Celaya missing players

Pumas Tabasco Celaya
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
21 10 2 Played P 3 12 24
6 1 0 Won W 0 3 9
9 5 0 Drew D 2 3 7
6 4 2 Lost L 1 6 8
21 5 0 Scored S 4 11 29
22 9 4 Conceded C 5 16 25
90% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
76% 60% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 67% 67%
29% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 42% 46%
10% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 17% 17%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
57% 30% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 58% 54%
24% 30% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 25%
29% 60% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 25%
 
4 3.4 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4 4.4
4.2 3.4 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4.7 4.7 5
2 2.2 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 2.4 2.4
6 4 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.4 8 10 Shots (avg) S ( 6.3 7.2 7.9
3.6 3.1 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 3 3.4
28% 16% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 31% 35%
 
8.5 7.5 7 Shots against (avg) S A 12 9.7 9.5
3.7 2.8 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 4.1 3.8
Key stats in Liga de Expansión MX this season:
  • Celaya have scored at least twice as many goals away as Pumas Tabasco have scored home.
  • Celaya haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Pumas Tabasco have the fewest matches over the total-line (4) in Liga de Expansión MX
  • Pumas Tabasco have the fewest scored goals (3) at home in Liga de Expansión MX

  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

Read more about Liga de Expansión MX

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.