Tigres UANL vs Guadalajara match preview

Tigres UANL and Guadalajara 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.

Tigres UANL's stadium, Estadio Universitario de Nuevo León, has a grass surface. Guadalajara have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Guadalajara when playing on grass; 13 wins, 13 draws and 14 losses from 40 matches. They have scored 45 goals in these games and conceded 50.

It's quite the trip for Guadalajara when visiting Tigres as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.

Tigres UANL form and stats

The story so far in the Liga MX for Tigres UANL at their home stadium (Estadio Universitario de Nuevo León) is 2 wins, 5 draws and 0 defeats.

In their previous game, the manager M. Herrera Aguirre led his Tigres to a defeat in the Liga MX match away at America. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Estadio Universitario de Nuevo León. Midfielder Luis Quiñones was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.35 (out of ten) in that game. Quiñones hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 41 successful passes (of 47 total).

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Pachuca in a game that was won 3-0.

The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Tigres UANL's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played five games, won four matches, drawn one and lost zero.

Tigres has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 7 matches. From these home matches, Tigres have conceded only 4 goals.

Guadalajara form and stats

1-5-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Guadalajara, who have the fewest scored goals (2) away in Liga MX, in their Liga MX matches away.

Guadalajara played 1-1 against Cruz Azul in their previous match. Cesar Huerta, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.35. Huerta dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 26 successful passes (of 29 total).

Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Tijuana.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Guadalajara playing away, we found three games. Results were zero away wins, zero draws and three home wins.

Goals are few and far between in Guadalajara's away league games. Only 2 goals from 7 travels. Guadalajara are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 1 away goal have been conceded so far.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head statistics (for the prior ten meetings): Tigres UANL won five games, three matches ended in a draw and Guadalajara managed two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: three / seven

Top Goalscorers

N. López Alonso 7 goals

L. Quiñónes 3 goals

C. González Espínola 3 goals

Tigres UANL missing players

Guadalajara missing players