América have delivered great football so far this season, proven by 1st position in the table. Santos Laguna have a view both ways from the 11th spot.
- América have the most clean sheets (8) in Liga MX
- Santos Laguna have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Liga 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.
It's quite the trip for Santos Laguna when visiting América as the cities are 900 kilometers apart.
América form and stats
América have been outstanding at home so far in the Liga MX with 5 wins, 1 draw and only 0 losses.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magana not having conceded a league goal in 237 minutes.
A good away victory last time out for América, who won 1-0 against Atletico San Luis (placed 8th). Manager S. Solari Poggio felt very clever after Roger Martínez scored the winning goal against Atletico San Luis, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 67th minute. A late climax in the match against Atletico San Luis as the winning goal came seven minutes into overtime; scored by Roger Martínez. Miguel Layún was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.44 out of 10. The defender Layún hit three key passes and won 1 of 2 duels.
Before that, América played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Pachuca.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier América matches with similar probabilities have ended with two wins, two draws and two defeats (from six games).
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Liga MX game versus Tigres UANL in only four days. This game is also played here at Estadio Azteca.
A decent goal production from América in their home games so far, with 10 goals from 6 league matches. América have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 1 goal.
Santos Laguna form and stats
1-3-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Santos Laguna in their Liga MX matches away.
Santos are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Pachuca (placed 12th). As mentioned above, Santos drew the match against Pachuca. Manager J. Almada Álves brought on Fernando Gorriarán to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Juan Otero got a match rating of 7.3 in that game, top player of the team. Otero hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Mazatlan.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Santos Laguna when being an outsider away as they are today, we find three matches with the visitors losing zero times, drawing two and winning one game.
The visiting Santos Laguna have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 7 goals from 5 games. As opposed to that, Santos have seen the ball go into their own net 5 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): América five wins, three draws and Santos Laguna two victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Martínez Tobinson 3 goals | Á. Fidalgo Fernández 3 goals | S. Reyes Chávez 3 goals |
América missing players
Santos Laguna missing players
| América | Santos Laguna | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | 10 | 2 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 7 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 85% | 83% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 69% | 83% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 23% | 17% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 25% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 17% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 80% | 67% |
| 62% | 83% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 33% |
| 15% | 17% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 4.5 | 4.5 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 8.6 | 7.2 |
| 2.8 | 3 | 1.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.2 | 3.2 |
| 1.6 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.4 | 1.8 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.9 | 16.2 | 20 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 15.8 | 14.2 |
| 5.8 | 7.2 | 9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4 | 3.9 |
| 23% | 23% | 11% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 35% | 30% |
- All of Santos Laguna's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- América have not yet lost a game at home.
- América have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- América have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Liga MX
- América have the most clean sheets (5) at home in Liga MX
- América have the most clean sheets (8) in Liga MX
- América have the most points (16) at home in Liga MX
- América have the the best goal difference (+10) in Liga MX
- América have the the best goal difference (+9) at home in Liga MX
- Santos Laguna have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Santos Laguna have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Santos Laguna have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Liga MX
- Santos Laguna have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Santos Laguna haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | América | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 28 |
| 2 | Atlas | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 22 |
| 3 | Toluca | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 21 |
| 4 | Monterrey | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 20 |
| 5 | Tigres UANL | 13 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 19 |
| 6 | Leon | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 19 |
| 7 | Cruz Azul | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 18 |
| 8 | Atletico San Luis | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 17 |
| 9 | Guadalajara | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 17 |
| 10 | Mazatlan | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 17 |
| 11 | Santos Laguna | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 16 |
| 12 | Pachuca | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 15 |
| 13 | Puebla | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 15 |
| 14 | Juarez | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -6 | 15 |
| 15 | Necaxa | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -5 | 13 |
| 16 | Querétaro | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -5 | 12 |
| 17 | Pumas UNAM | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | -7 | 11 |
| 18 | Tijuana | 13 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -12 | 8 |