Home advantage could prove decisive in Santos Laguna - Tijuana battle

This arena has grass, which is not Tijuana's regular surface at their own football pitch. When playing on grass Tijuana have performed like this: Played 29 matches taking 4 wins, 8 draws and 17 defeats with the goal data 22-53 (scored/conceded).

These teams have little in common geographically as Tijuana have to travel 1800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

Santos Laguna and Tijuana 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.

Santos Laguna form and stats

Santos Laguna have been very solid at home in the Liga MX so far, with 25 points collected from 9 matches (8-1-0). This has contributed greatly to their 3rd position in the table.

Santos faced defeat in their previous match, away at Guadalajara (0-2). Midfielder Lopez was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.44 (out of ten) in that game. Lopez had 55 successful passes (of 57 total).

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 Santos Laguna have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 5 times, drawn 7 and lost 1.

Lots of goals and action? Nobody knows about this one, but we do know that 11 of the 13 latest league games with this side has had three goals or more.

Santos are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Estadio Nuevo Corona in their league games, having scored an impressive 24 goals in 9 matches. Santos Laguna are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Nuevo Corona in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 9 matches. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

Tijuana form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Tijuana so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-4 (win-draw-lose). Tijuana has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.

Tijuana delivered a 1-1 draw playing at home against Atlas in their previous game. Defender Díaz was the best team player with a rating of 8.05. Díaz served one assist, hit one key pass and won 10 of 13 duels.

We have checked recent matches where Tijuana have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 17 games were 2 victories, 5 draws and 10 defeats.

Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Tijuana have conceded 17 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. Tijuana has visited these top teams four times, and 3 of 4 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

Santos and Tijuana have met before this season: Tijuana - Santos Laguna 0-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Santos Laguna five wins, three draws and Tijuana two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

H. Preciado Villarreal 12 goals

M. Correa 8 goals

J. Brunetta 8 goals

Santos Laguna missing players

Tijuana missing players