Delightful dogfight as daring León duel with determined Pumas UNAM

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Competition: Mexico Liga MX
Competition: Mon 11.July
Match begins: 00:05 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio León (31297 seats)

It's game two of the Liga MX season and important points to play for. Read our detailed preview of León-Pumas UNAM!

León and Pumas UNAM should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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León form and stats

In the previous season, León's league results were 8 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses, resulting in 3rd place in the Liga MX. Over these 17 matches they scored 20 goals and gave away 14. Performing as the home team in the previous season León produced 3-3-2 (win-draw-lost) with 11 goals and 6 conceded.

León enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Atletico San Luis's place. The match ended 2-1 with Martínez and Yorio scoring. Some amazing scenes last match, when Yorio scored the winning goal four minutes into stoppage time. Midfielder Martínez was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.84 (out of ten) in that game. Martínez scored one goal and hit two key passes.

Preceding that game was the away draw at Santos Laguna that finished 1-1.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how León have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 10 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 4 and lost 2.

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Pumas UNAM form and stats

Let's have a look at how Pumas UNAM performed last season in the Liga MX: They landed a 11th position in the league table after playing out 5 victories, 6 draws and 6 defeats. In total they scored 17 and conceded 23 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 3 and lost 4 with 6/13 goals scored/conceded.

Pumas's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Tijuana that finished 1-1. As mentioned above, Pumas UNAM drew the match against Tijuana. Manager Lillini brought on Diogo to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. López got a match rating of 7.83 in that game, top player of the team. López served one assist, hit five key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 6 times and had 48 successful passes (of 58 total).

A 1-4 defeat away at Guadalajara before that.

Pumas UNAM are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 7 draws and 10 defeats. From a total of 21 matches.

Head 2 Head

Head to head totals (for the preceeding ten meetings): León won six games, two matches ended with a draw and Pumas UNAM have two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / five The games between these clubs have sometimes been aggressive, having seen 7 red cards from the last ten duels.

Top Goalscorers

LeónF. Martínez Berroa
F. Martínez Berroa
1 goals
LeónL. Di Yorio
L. Di Yorio
1 goals

León missing players

Pumas UNAM missing players

Total First Half Second Half
León Pumas UNAM
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
1 0 0 Played P 0 0 1
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
0 0 0 Lost L 0 0 0
2 0 0 Scored S 0 0 1
1 0 0 Conceded C 0 0 1
100% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 100%
100% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
100% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
2 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 9
7 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 1
1 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
15 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 13
9 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 4
22% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 25%
 
12 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 4
3 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 2
León Last season Pumas UNAM
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
40 20   Played P   21 40
16 8   Won W   6 14
11 7   Drew D   5 11
13 5   Lost L   10 15
46 28   Scored S   23 48
44 22   Conceded C   33 51
92% 90%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   90% 82%
68% 75%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   76% 70%
42% 50%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   57% 50%
10% 10%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   33% 30%
5% 10%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   10% 10%
45% 55%   BTTS BTTS   57% 48%
32% 25%   Clean Sheets C S   19% 35%
30% 30%   Failed to Score F T   33% 35%
 
4.4 5.1   Corners for (avg) C F   4.1 4.6
4.9 4.4   Corners against (avg) C A   4.1 3.9
2.3 2.1   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.4 2.2
10 5   Red cards R C   5 9
 
11.8 13.6   Shots (avg) S (   12.7 13.9
3.6 4.5   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.6 4.8
32% 31%   Goal Efficiency G E   24% 25%
 
12.7 10.9   Shots against (avg) S A   15.8 13.4
4.8 4.2   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5.3 4.5

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Puebla 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3
2 Toluca 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
3 Pachuca 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
4 Santos Laguna 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Cruz Azul 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 3
6 León 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
7 Pumas UNAM 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
8 Tijuana 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
9 America 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10 Atlas 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
11 Guadalajara 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
12 Juarez 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
13 Monterrey 1 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 4 -1 0
14 Tigres UANL 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
15 Atletico San Luis 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
16 Mazatlan 1 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
17 Necaxa 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
18 Queretaro 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
Last season Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Pachuca 17 12 2 3 30 15 8 6 2 0 14 5 9 6 0 3 16 10 15 38
2 Tigres UANL 17 10 3 4 30 20 8 5 1 2 15 10 9 5 2 2 15 10 10 33
3 Atlas 17 7 6 4 21 15 8 3 3 2 8 7 9 4 3 2 13 8 6 27
4 America 17 7 5 5 24 17 8 3 2 3 12 9 9 4 3 2 12 8 7 26
5 Puebla 17 7 5 5 25 19 8 2 5 1 11 9 9 5 0 4 14 10 6 26
6 Guadalajara 17 7 5 5 25 21 9 4 2 3 14 12 8 3 3 2 11 9 4 26
7 Monterrey 17 7 5 5 21 17 9 5 3 1 12 6 8 2 2 4 9 11 4 26
8 Cruz Azul 17 7 4 6 20 17 9 4 0 5 9 10 8 3 4 1 11 7 3 25
9 Necaxa 17 7 2 8 21 21 9 3 0 6 8 13 8 4 2 2 13 8 0 23
10 Atletico San Luis 17 7 2 8 21 22 9 4 1 4 10 10 8 3 1 4 11 12 -1 23
11 Pumas UNAM 17 6 4 7 24 21 8 4 2 2 14 7 9 2 2 5 10 14 3 22
12 Mazatlan 17 6 3 8 20 24 8 4 2 2 10 7 9 2 1 6 10 17 -4 21
13 León 17 5 6 6 17 22 9 2 4 3 10 13 8 3 2 3 7 9 -5 21
14 Santos Laguna 17 5 5 7 25 25 8 3 3 2 16 13 9 2 2 5 9 12 0 20
15 Toluca 17 5 4 8 21 36 9 2 2 5 12 19 8 3 2 3 9 17 -15 19
16 Queretaro 17 3 8 6 18 21 9 3 1 5 10 12 8 0 7 1 8 9 -3 17
17 Tijuana 17 4 5 8 14 26 8 3 4 1 10 8 9 1 1 7 4 18 -12 17
18 Juarez 17 3 2 12 10 28 9 1 1 7 7 15 8 2 1 5 3 13 -18 11

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Puebla 1 1 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 3
2 Toluca 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 1 2 3
3 Pachuca 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
4 Santos Laguna 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Cruz Azul 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 3
6 León 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
7 Pumas UNAM 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
8 Tijuana 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
9 America 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10 Atlas 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
11 Guadalajara 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
12 Juarez 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
13 Monterrey 1 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 4 -1 0
14 Tigres UANL 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
15 Atletico San Luis 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
16 Mazatlan 1 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
17 Necaxa 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0
18 Queretaro 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0

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