Guadalajara clashes with Toluca in Liga MX face-off

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Competition: Mexico Liga MX
Competition: Sun 17.October
Match begins: 22:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio AKRON (45000 seats)

Liga MX: Two sides in reasonable form get together for this match. Toluca with a small upper hand with their 3rd spot in the standings?

Insights:
  • Guadalajara have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Toluca have the most scored goals (19) in Liga MX

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

Toluca play their home fixtures on grass, while this game will take part on artifical turf. Recent statistics for Toluca when featuring on artifical turf are 1 win, 3 draws and 2 defeats from six matches. They have managed to score 8 goals and conceded 10 times in these games.

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Guadalajara form and stats

Guadalajara have collected 7 points from their Liga MX home games so far after 2-1-3.

Guadalajara are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 270 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by J. Angulo).

The Guadalajara crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Atlas here at Estadio AKRON in a Liga MX match. The striker Alexis Vega was named "man of the match" for Guadalajara with the rating of 7.31/10. Vega hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that game, the home loss against Atlas with the scoreline 0-1.

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 twelve games. Guadalajara has won four of these, drawn four and lost four.

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

Guadalajara are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 6 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Guadalajara defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 6 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Toluca form and stats

As the visiting team in Liga MX matches, Toluca have produced an overall stat of 3-1-2 so far.

Toluca's last game was the home draw against Queretaro (1-1). As mentioned above, Toluca drew the match against Queretaro. Manager R. Cristante Mandarino brought on Diego Chávez to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Kevin Castañeda got a match rating of 7.85 in that game, top player of the team. Castañeda hit five key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

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

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

After this away game Toluca return home for a Liga MX game against Necaxa. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Toluca find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Toluca have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the preceeding ten meetings between these two contenders are: two wins for Guadalajara, seven draws and one win for Toluca. Over 2,5 goals: three times; under 2,5 goals: seven games.

Top Goalscorers

TolucaR. Sambueza
R. Sambueza
4 goals
GuadalajaraÁ. Zaldívar Caviedes
Á. Zaldívar Caviedes
3 goals
TolucaÓ. Ortega Gatica
Ó. Ortega Gatica
3 goals

Guadalajara missing players

Toluca missing players

Guadalajara Toluca
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
12 6 1 Played P 2 6 12
3 2 0 Won W 2 3 6
5 1 0 Drew D 0 1 3
4 3 1 Lost L 0 2 3
8 6 0 Scored S 5 7 19
10 9 1 Conceded C 2 8 16
67% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 92%
42% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 92%
33% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 50% 67%
8% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 42%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
25% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 33% 67%
50% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 17%
58% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 25%
 
5.3 6.3 4 Corners for (avg) C F 5.5 4 4.8
4.8 5.2 10 Corners against (avg) C A 7.5 6 5.3
2.2 1.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.8 2.8
2 2 2 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
12.5 13.7 7 Shots (avg) S ( 15 13.7 14.5
4.6 4.5 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 4.3 4.4
15% 22% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 56% 27% 36%
Key stats in Liga MX this season:
  • Guadalajara have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Guadalajara haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Toluca have scored more than double the goals of Guadalajara.
  • Toluca have the most conceded goals in the first half (13) in Liga MX
  • Toluca have the most points from losing position (9) in Liga MX
  • Toluca have the most scored goals (19) in Liga 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 America 12 7 4 1 16 7 6 5 1 0 10 1 6 2 3 1 6 6 9 25
2 Atlas 12 6 4 2 13 5 6 3 1 2 6 3 6 3 3 0 7 2 8 22
3 Toluca 12 6 3 3 19 16 6 3 2 1 12 8 6 3 1 2 7 8 3 21
4 Monterrey 12 5 5 2 18 12 6 4 2 0 10 2 6 1 3 2 8 10 6 20
5 Tigres UANL 12 4 6 2 17 11 6 1 5 0 7 4 6 3 1 2 10 7 6 18
6 Cruz Azul 11 4 5 2 14 9 5 2 2 1 8 4 6 2 3 1 6 5 5 17
7 Atletico San Luis 12 4 5 3 16 15 5 1 2 2 5 7 7 3 3 1 11 8 1 17
8 Leon 11 4 4 3 13 12 6 2 3 1 7 4 5 2 1 2 6 8 1 16
9 Santos Laguna 11 3 6 2 13 9 7 2 4 1 7 5 4 1 2 1 6 4 4 15
10 Juarez 13 4 3 6 13 18 7 3 2 2 9 8 6 1 1 4 4 10 -5 15
11 Pachuca 11 4 2 5 14 12 5 2 1 2 7 4 6 2 1 3 7 8 2 14
12 Guadalajara 12 3 5 4 8 10 6 2 1 3 6 9 6 1 4 1 2 1 -2 14
13 Mazatlan 12 3 5 4 14 18 6 2 3 1 10 10 6 1 2 3 4 8 -4 14
14 Necaxa 12 4 1 7 12 16 6 3 0 3 8 8 6 1 1 4 4 8 -4 13
15 Puebla 12 2 6 4 10 15 6 1 3 2 6 8 6 1 3 2 4 7 -5 12
16 Queretaro 12 2 5 5 6 11 5 2 1 2 4 3 7 0 4 3 2 8 -5 11
17 Pumas UNAM 11 1 5 5 6 14 5 1 3 1 3 3 6 0 2 4 3 11 -8 8
18 Tijuana 12 1 4 7 9 21 7 1 3 3 6 9 5 0 1 4 3 12 -12 7

Read more about Liga MX

Liga MX is the top division in the Mexican football league system. Each season the league has two tournaments, Apertura (opening) and Clausura (closing). This means that the Liga MX has two champions per season. The Liga MX is the fourth most attended football league in the world.