Home advantage could prove decisive in Celaya - Cimarrones de Sonora battle

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Competition: Mexico Liga de Expansión MX
Competition: Sun 11.October
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Miguel Alemán Valdés (32300 seats)

Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Celaya - Cimarrones de Sonora!

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.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Cimarrones de Sonora, who are travelling more than 1600 kilometers to play this game.

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Celaya form and stats

3-1-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Liga de Expansión MX numbers at home for Celaya, who have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Liga de Expansión MX, so far this season.

The home team returns to Estadio Miguel Alemán Valdés after being equal after 90 minutes with Tepatitlan de Morelos (placed 6th) on their last time out; the Liga de Expansión MX game ended 1-1. Ahead of that match, Celaya won a home game hosting Universidad Guadalajara (1-0).

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Celaya's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played two games, won one match, drawn one and lost zero.

Celaya are traveling soon after this match as the Liga de Expansión MX match at Mineros de Zacatecas awaits in three days.

The Celaya fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 6 goals in 4 league matches. Defensively Celaya have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (1 in 4 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Cimarrones de Sonora form and stats

2 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Cimarrones de Sonora playing as the away team in the Liga de Expansión MX this season. Cimarrones seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Impressive finishing from Á. López and M. Vallejo (2) secured the home win 3-1 against Tampico Madero in their previous game. Preceding that, the 2-3 home loss versus Mineros de Zacatecas.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Cimarrones when being an outsider away as they are today, we find four matches with the visitors losing three times, drawing zero and winning one game.

Cimarrones find the net regularly in their away games. 5 goals from 4 away fixtures in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (3 so far).

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Celaya victories, one draw and four Cimarrones de Sonora wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Cimarrones de SonoraÁ. López Sandoval
Á. López Sandoval
4 goals
CelayaG. Martínez Ayala
G. Martínez Ayala
3 goals
Cimarrones de SonoraM. Vallejo Navarro
M. Vallejo Navarro
3 goals

Celaya missing players

Cimarrones de Sonora missing players

Celaya Cimarrones de Sonora
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
8 4 1 Played P 1 4 8
5 3 1 Won W 0 2 5
3 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
0 0 0 Lost L 1 2 3
12 6 3 Scored S 0 5 14
5 1 0 Conceded C 1 3 9
88% 75% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
75% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 88%
50% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 62%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 25%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 12%
62% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 62%
38% 75% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 50% 25%
12% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 25% 12%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3.6 3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.7 2.5
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
88 43 10 Total Shots T S 0 13 39
43 21 9 Shots on Target S O 0 7 22
28% 29% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 43% 45%
Key stats in Liga de Expansión MX this season:
  • Celaya has the fewest conceded goals (5) in Liga de Expansión MX
  • Celaya has the the best goal difference (+5) at home in Liga de Expansión MX
  • Celaya have not yet lost a game.
  • Celaya have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Cimarrones de Sonora 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 Celaya 8 5 3 0 12 5 4 3 1 0 6 1 4 2 2 0 6 4 7 20
2 Atlante 9 5 1 3 14 7 5 3 1 1 6 2 4 2 0 2 8 5 7 18
3 Cimarrones de Sonora 8 5 0 3 14 9 4 3 0 1 9 6 4 2 0 2 5 3 5 17
4 Mineros de Zacatecas 8 4 3 1 13 10 4 3 0 1 5 3 4 1 3 0 8 7 3 16
5 Morelia 8 3 3 2 13 13 4 1 1 2 5 7 4 2 2 0 8 6 0 14
6 Tepatitlan de Morelos 8 3 3 2 8 6 4 2 2 0 7 3 4 1 1 2 1 3 2 13
7 Cancun 8 3 2 3 11 10 4 2 1 1 5 3 4 1 1 2 6 7 1 12
8 Dorados 8 2 4 2 12 12 4 0 2 2 4 7 4 2 2 0 8 5 0 12
9 Universidad Guadalajara 7 2 2 3 8 8 3 0 2 1 4 5 4 2 0 2 4 3 0 10
10 Tampico Madero 8 2 3 3 7 8 4 1 2 1 4 3 4 1 1 2 3 5 -1 10
11 Venados 7 2 2 3 5 9 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 1 1 2 3 7 -4 9
12 Correcaminos UAT 6 2 2 2 7 7 3 2 1 0 4 1 3 0 1 2 3 6 0 8
13 Pumas Tabasco 8 1 4 3 11 15 4 0 2 2 6 11 4 1 2 1 5 4 -4 8
14 Tapatío 7 1 3 3 7 8 4 1 1 2 6 6 3 0 2 1 1 2 -1 6
15 Tlaxcala 6 1 2 3 6 11 3 0 1 2 2 7 3 1 1 1 4 4 -5 6
16 Alebrijes de Oaxaca 8 1 1 6 4 14 4 1 1 2 4 6 4 0 0 4 0 8 -10 4

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.