Guadalajara vs Puebla: Full pre-match guide and statistics

This stadium has the surface artifical turf, unlike Puebla's home stadium. The last five games by the away side on artifical turf have resulted in 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

Guadalajara form and stats

Guadalajara have collected 11 points from their Liga MX home games so far after 3-2-3.

The fans are hoping that Guadalajara will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the game against León. Midfielder Olivas was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.3 (out of ten) in that game. Olivas had 52 successful passes (of 62 total).

Preceding that match was a defeat to Tigres UANL (1-3).

This is expected to be a close game, with Guadalajara perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Guadalajara as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Guadalajara has won four of these, drawn four and lost five.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Guadalajara as they are travelling to their away game against Atletico San Luis in the Liga MX. That match is four days after this one.

Guadalajara are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 8 games. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Guadalajara's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

Puebla form and stats

3 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Puebla playing as the away team in the Liga MX this season. Puebla has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.

Puebla are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the fixture against Monterrey. Silva was the team player of the game with the player rating of 8.45. The agile goalkeeper Silva saved a penalty and topped it up with a clean sheet.

A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Atlas.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Puebla in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Puebla, one draw and one defeat.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Juarez in just three days.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Puebla as they have only managed to score 7 times from 8 away games in the league. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Puebla are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 7 times in 8 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Guadalajara and Puebla have faced each other earlier this season: Puebla - Guadalajara 2-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Guadalajara two wins, four draws and Puebla four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less. The games between these clubs have had a tendency to be hot-tempered, having seen 8 sending-offs from the last ten encounters.

Top Goalscorers

Á. Zaldívar Caviedes 6 goals

G. Martínez Ayala 4 goals

Guadalajara missing players

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