Monterrey vs Morelia Liga MX preview

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Competition: Mexico Liga MX
Date: Sat 18.January
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio BBVA Bancomer (53500 seats)

Monterrey welcome Morelia for another interesting Liga MX fixture here.

Monterrey and Morelia 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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Monterrey form and stats

Monterrey are traveling soon after this match as the Copa MX match at Celaya awaits in four days.

Last season, Monterrey's league statistics were 8 wins, 6 draws and 3 losses, resulting in a 3rd position in the Liga MX. Over these 17 matches they scored 33 goals and conceded 21. Playing at home last season Monterrey managed 4-5-0 (win-draw-lost) with 23 goals and 9 conceded.

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Morelia form and stats

A. Rocha was the last player to score for the away team. Morelia haven't scored a league goal in the last 219 minutes.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Copa MX trip to Cafetaleros de Tapachula.

Let's have a look at how Morelia performed last season in the Liga MX: They landed a 16th position in the league table after playing out 2 victories, 7 draws and 8 defeats. In total they scored 20 and conceded 31 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 0 - drew 5 and lost 3 with 7/13 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Morelia - Monterrey 0-1, played this season. Last ten meetings between the teams: Monterrey won 6, Morelia won 1 and 3 draws. 6 games with over 2,5 goals, 4 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

MonterreyR. Funes Mori
R. Funes Mori
13 goals
MonterreyN. Sánchez
N. Sánchez
7 goals
MoreliaF. Aristeguieta de Luca
F. Aristeguieta de Luca
6 goals

Monterrey missing players

Morelia missing players

Monterrey Morelia
Total Home vs Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
24 12 1 Played P 6 11 23
12 8 1 Won W 1 4 10
4 2 0 Drew D 1 2 4
8 2 0 Lost L 4 5 9
39 23 5 Scored S 7 16 38
30 14 2 Conceded C 11 19 33
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
83% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 91% 74%
46% 42% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 55% 48%
25% 25% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 36% 39%
21% 25% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 27% 30%
58% 58% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 73% 57%
25% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 17% 9% 22%
17% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 18% 22%
 
6.8 7.8 6 Corners For (avg) C F 1.3 2.7 4.1
4.8 2.8 8 Corners Against (avg) C A 4.5 5.5 5.5
2.3 1.7 2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.5 2.6
3 1 0 Red Cards R C 2 2 5
 
351 204 21 Total Shots T S 55 99 262
112 64 8 Shots on Target S O 21 39 91
35% 36% 62% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 41% 42%
Key stats in Liga MX this season:
  • All of Monterrey's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Monterrey have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Monterrey haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Morelia have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Morelia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Morelia have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Morelia haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 2 1 1 0 6 5 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 0 4 4 1 4
2 León 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
3 Guadalajara 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
4 Atlas 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 3
5 Tijuana 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
6 Toluca 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
7 Atletico San Luis 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
8 Tigres UANL 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
9 Juarez 2 0 1 1 4 6 1 0 1 0 4 4 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 1
10 América 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Monterrey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Necaxa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Puebla 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 Cruz Azul 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
15 Pachuca 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
16 Santos Laguna 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 -1 0
17 Morelia 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0
18 Querétaro 1 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0

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.