Monterrey favourites for feisty fight facing Santos Laguna

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Competition: Mexico Liga MX
Competition: Sun 09.August
Match begins: 00:06 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio BBVA Bancomer (53500 seats)

The Monterrey manager A. Mohamed Matijevich attacks this game with the team placed 8th so far. In the visitors dressing room Santos Laguna and their manager J. Almada Álves are in 9th place before this match.

Monterrey and Santos Laguna 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

The hosts won their first Liga MX game here at Estadio BBVA Bancomer, lifting spirits. Home statistics for Monterrey last season were 0 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses from 5 games.

In their previous game, the manager A. Mohamed Matijevich led his Monterrey to a defeat in the Liga MX match away at León. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Estadio BBVA Bancomer. Ahead of that match, Monterrey won a home game hosting Toluca (3-1).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Monterrey handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are six wins, zero draws and two defeats.

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

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Monterrey at home in the league. 3 on target and 1 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.

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Santos Laguna form and stats

The visitors' first away game in the Liga MX ended in defeat. Last season Santos Laguna had these away match statistics: Played 5; won 1, drew 1 and lost 3.

Santos won their last game, 2-0 versus Guadalajara played at home. A 0-2 defeat away at Cruz Azul before that.

Santos are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, one draw and nine defeats. From a total of eleven matches.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Santos Laguna has managed 0 goals and let in 2 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Monterrey five wins, two draws and Santos Laguna three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

MonterreyR. Funes Mori
R. Funes Mori
2 goals
Santos LagunaF. Gorriarán Fontes
F. Gorriarán Fontes
2 goals
MonterreyC. Rodríguez Gómez
C. Rodríguez Gómez
1 goals

Monterrey missing players

Santos Laguna missing players

Monterrey Santos Laguna
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
2 1 1 Played P 0 1 2
1 1 1 Won W 0 0 1
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 1 1
3 3 3 Scored S 0 0 2
2 1 1 Conceded C 0 2 2
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 50%
50% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 100% 50%
 
4 2 2 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4 5
3 2 2 Corners against (avg) C A 0 10 7
3 4 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
32 20 20 Total Shots T S 0 6 24
7 6 6 Shots on Target S O 0 0 5
43% 50% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 40%
Monterrey Last season Santos Laguna
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   15 30
12 8   Won W   4 16
9 5   Drew D   4 7
13 4   Lost L   7 7
49 29   Scored S   20 57
47 22   Conceded C   33 45
100% 100%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 100%
82% 94%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   93% 90%
47% 47%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   87% 80%
29% 29%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   47% 43%
15% 18%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   13% 20%
62% 65%   BTTS BTTS   67% 67%
18% 18%   Clean Sheets C S   0% 17%
21% 18%   Failed to Score F T   33% 17%
 
7.1 8.2   Corners for (avg) C F   5.7 5.9
4.6 2.9   Corners against (avg) C A   4.7 4.4
2.4 1.8   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.3 1.9
5 2   Red cards R C   1 3
 
507 288   Total Shots T S   220 450
150 86   Shots on Target S O   65 147
33% 34%   Goal Efficiency G E   31% 39%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 América 2 2 0 0 6 1 1 1 0 0 4 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 5 6
2 Pumas UNAM 2 2 0 0 5 3 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 6
3 Puebla 2 1 1 0 5 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 1 3 4
4 Tigres UANL 2 1 1 0 4 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 3 4
5 Cruz Azul 2 1 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 4
6 Juárez 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 4
7 León 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 4
8 Monterrey 2 1 0 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 3
9 Santos Laguna 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 3
10 Toluca 2 1 0 1 4 5 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 -1 3
11 Tijuana 2 1 0 1 3 5 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 -2 3
12 Atlético San Luis 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 1
13 Querétaro 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 1
14 Pachuca 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 -1 1
15 Guadalajara 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 1
16 Mazatlán 2 0 1 1 2 5 1 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 1 0 1 1 -3 1
17 Atlas 2 0 0 2 2 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 -3 0
18 Necaxa 2 0 0 2 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 -4 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 Cruz Azul 10 7 1 2 24 14 5 4 0 1 13 6 5 3 1 1 11 8 10 22
2 León 10 7 0 3 23 14 5 5 0 0 14 4 5 2 0 3 9 10 9 21
3 Santos Laguna 10 5 2 3 14 14 5 4 1 0 9 5 5 1 1 3 5 9 0 17
4 América 10 5 2 3 11 11 5 2 0 3 4 7 5 3 2 0 7 4 0 17
5 Guadalajara 10 4 4 2 13 11 5 2 2 1 8 5 5 2 2 1 5 6 2 16
6 Pumas UNAM 10 4 3 3 20 19 5 3 1 1 11 6 5 1 2 2 9 13 1 15
7 Tigres UANL 10 4 2 4 13 10 5 4 1 0 11 3 5 0 1 4 2 7 3 14
8 Juárez 10 4 2 4 20 18 5 2 1 2 11 11 5 2 1 2 9 7 2 14
9 Morelia 10 4 2 4 17 16 5 1 1 3 8 8 5 3 1 1 9 8 1 14
10 Puebla 10 4 2 4 7 7 5 1 2 2 4 4 5 3 0 2 3 3 0 14
11 Pachuca 10 4 2 4 11 12 5 3 2 0 5 1 5 1 0 4 6 11 -1 14
12 Querétaro 10 4 2 4 13 15 4 1 1 2 5 4 6 3 1 2 8 11 -2 14
13 Atlético San Luis 10 3 4 3 11 15 5 2 1 2 7 8 5 1 3 1 4 7 -4 13
14 Necaxa 10 3 2 5 17 16 5 1 2 2 8 8 5 2 0 3 9 8 1 11
15 Toluca 10 2 4 4 16 18 5 1 1 3 11 12 5 1 3 1 5 6 -2 10
16 Tijuana 10 2 3 5 10 16 6 2 2 2 6 6 4 0 1 3 4 10 -6 9
17 Atlas 10 3 0 7 10 17 5 1 0 4 4 9 5 2 0 3 6 8 -7 9
18 Monterrey 10 0 5 5 10 17 5 0 3 2 6 8 5 0 2 3 4 9 -7 5

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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.