Struggling Monterrey will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying America in the upcoming league round. It's 18th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Monterrey form and stats
Three Liga MX home games done for Monterrey, who are not happy collecting 2 points from these matches.
The spoils were shared in Monterrey's previous game, also at home. Visiting Juárez (placed 5th) travelled back with a draw after a 1-1 scoreline. Before that, Monterrey played out a Copa MX draw 0-0 when visiting Santos Laguna.
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 Monterrey have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won five times, drawn zero and lost one.
Monterrey are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 3 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 5 goals have been conceded.
América form and stats
América, who have the most clean sheets (11) in Liga MX, are happy with their away performances in the Liga MX so far, having secured two victories and one draw from their first three travels. América love their trips these days, as their two previous away games have resulted in victories.
América go into this game after a win, the home game against Atlas that ended 2-0. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Querétaro at their stadium, the result 2-1.
América are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, zero draws and two defeats. From a total of two matches.
América find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 3 goals from 3 away fixtures in the league. The América defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average (1 goal in 3 games).
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; América - Monterrey 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Monterrey three wins, three draws and América four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Funes Mori 15 goals |  N. Sánchez 9 goals |   H. Martín Mex 9 goals |
Monterrey missing players
América missing players
| Monterrey | América | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 30 | 15 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 15 | 30 |
| 12 | 8 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 6 | 15 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 11 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 46 | 27 | 7 | Scored | S | 1 | 21 | 49 |
| 41 | 19 | 5 | Conceded | C | 5 | 19 | 35 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 87% | 93% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 77% |
| 50% | 47% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 47% | 50% |
| 30% | 27% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 27% | 30% |
| 17% | 20% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 17% |
| 63% | 67% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 47% | 57% |
| 20% | 20% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | 37% |
| 17% | 13% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 75% | 27% | 13% |
| 6.7 | 8 | 8.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.6 |
| 4.9 | 2.8 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
| 2.3 | 1.6 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 431 | 258 | 74 | Total Shots | T S | 62 | 193 | 429 |
| 128 | 73 | 14 | Shots on Target | S O | 18 | 67 | 135 |
| 36% | 37% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 6% | 31% | 36% |
- All of Monterrey's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- América has the fewest conceded goals (1) away
- América has the fewest conceded goals (4)
- América has the most clean sheets (11)
- América has the most clean sheets (6) away
- América has the the best goal difference (+2) away
- Monterrey have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Monterrey haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Monterrey is in the worst form (0-3-3)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Pumas UNAM | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2 | América | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| 3 | Leon | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | Querétaro | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | Juárez | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | Cruz Azul | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | Atlético San Luis | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -1 | 9 |
| 8 | Necaxa | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 9 | Santos Laguna | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -2 | 8 |
| 10 | Tigres UANL | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 11 | Pachuca | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -3 | 7 |
| 12 | Toluca | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 6 |
| 13 | Guadalajara | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 6 |
| 14 | Tijuana | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -3 | 6 |
| 15 | Atlas | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 16 | Morelia | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -3 | 5 |
| 17 | Puebla | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -4 | 4 |
| 18 | Monterrey | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 3 |