Match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Tigres UANL greet Tijuana

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Competition: Mexico Liga MX
Competition: Mon 18.July
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Universitario de Nuevo León (41886 seats)

Yet another absorbing fixture in the Liga MX. Tigres UANL is in the 9th place from completing two fixtures. They welcome Tijuana who are placed 16th from two games.

Tijuana play their home matches on artifical turf, while this fixture is played on grass. Up to date data for Tijuana when featuring on grass are 3 wins, 10 draws and 18 defeats from 31 matches. They have scored 22 goals and conceded 55 times on these occasions.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Tijuana, who are travelling more than 2300 kilometers to play this game.

This could be an exciting game with lots of spark and excitement as both sides are well revitalized since they last ran out on the pitch. Get ready!

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Tigres UANL form and stats

The home fans saw their team lose the first Liga MX game of the season here at Estadio Universitario de Nuevo León. Last season these fans witnessed 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses from Tigres UANL's 8 home games.

Happy days for Tigres UANL in their previous game, a fixture away at Mazatlan (placed 17th) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Sweet to taste a league win after three matches without. Lichnovsky was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.61 out of 10. The defender Lichnovsky won 7 of 11 duels.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Cruz Azul (2-3).

It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Tigres UANL at home in the league. 2 on target and 3 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.

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Tijuana form and stats

The visitors settled for one point in their first Liga MX away game of the season. During their previous season 9 away games resulted in 1 win, 1 draw and 7 defeats.

Tijuana failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Juárez (placed 4th) that ended with defeat 0-2. That defeat was their first after three consecutive league games winning points. Midfielder Ibarra was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.13. Ibarra hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Pumas UNAM that ended 1-1.

1 goal so far away for Tijuana, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 1. All from 1 league match away.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's eight Tigres UANL victories, two draws and zero Tijuana wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Tigres UANLA. Gignac
A. Gignac
1 goals
TigresF. Córdova Reyes
F. Córdova Reyes
1 goals

Tigres UANL missing players

Tijuana missing players

Tigres UANL Tijuana
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
2 1 0 Played P 1 1 2
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 1 1 1
1 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
3 2 0 Scored S 1 1 1
3 3 0 Conceded C 1 1 3
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 50%
50% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 50%
 
6.5 4 0 Corners for (avg) C F 1 1 2.5
1 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 9 9 7.5
2 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2 2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13 21 0 Shots (avg) S ( 4 4 2.5
2.5 3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2 1
60% 67% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 50% 50%
 
4.5 7 0 Shots against (avg) S A 13 13 8
3 5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 4 3.5
Tigres UANL Last season Tijuana
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
42 21   Played P   17 34
21 12   Won W   2 7
10 6   Drew D   3 11
11 3   Lost L   12 16
66 37   Scored S   11 30
45 19   Conceded C   34 53
95% 90%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   94% 91%
83% 81%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   94% 82%
55% 52%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   47% 41%
17% 19%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   24% 24%
7% 10%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   6% 6%
50% 43%   BTTS BTTS   47% 53%
33% 43%   Clean Sheets C S   12% 21%
21% 24%   Failed to Score F T   47% 35%
 
5.1 6.5   Corners for (avg) C F   3.3 4.3
4 3.7   Corners against (avg) C A   5.5 5.1
2.1 2.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.5 2.4
11 5   Red cards R C   3 4
 
14.3 15.7   Shots (avg) S (   9 12.1
5 6   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.8 3.8
32% 30%   Goal Efficiency G E   23% 23%
 
11.3 10.4   Shots against (avg) S A   15.5 13.2
4 3.7   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5.2 4.4

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Toluca 2 2 0 0 6 3 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 3 6
2 Puebla 2 2 0 0 5 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 4 2 3 6
3 Pachuca 2 2 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 6
4 Juárez 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 4
5 Leon 2 1 1 0 5 4 1 0 1 0 3 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 4
6 Monterrey 2 1 0 1 6 6 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 3 4 0 3
7 Cruz Azul 2 1 0 1 4 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 3
8 Santos Laguna 2 1 0 1 4 4 1 1 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3
9 Tigres UANL 2 1 0 1 3 3 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 3
10 Atletico San Luis 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 3
11 Necaxa 2 1 0 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 2 1 -1 3
12 Pumas UNAM 2 0 2 0 4 4 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 3 3 0 2
13 América 2 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 1
14 Atlas 2 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 2 3 -1 1
15 Guadalajara 2 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 1
16 Tijuana 2 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 -2 1
17 Mazatlan 2 0 0 2 2 5 2 0 0 2 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0
18 Querétaro 2 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 -3 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 Pachuca 17 12 2 3 30 15 8 6 2 0 14 5 9 6 0 3 16 10 15 38
2 Tigres UANL 17 10 3 4 30 20 8 5 1 2 15 10 9 5 2 2 15 10 10 33
3 Atlas 17 7 6 4 21 15 8 3 3 2 8 7 9 4 3 2 13 8 6 27
4 América 17 7 5 5 24 17 8 3 2 3 12 9 9 4 3 2 12 8 7 26
5 Puebla 17 7 5 5 25 19 8 2 5 1 11 9 9 5 0 4 14 10 6 26
6 Guadalajara 17 7 5 5 25 21 9 4 2 3 14 12 8 3 3 2 11 9 4 26
7 Monterrey 17 7 5 5 21 17 9 5 3 1 12 6 8 2 2 4 9 11 4 26
8 Cruz Azul 17 7 4 6 20 17 9 4 0 5 9 10 8 3 4 1 11 7 3 25
9 Necaxa 17 7 2 8 21 21 9 3 0 6 8 13 8 4 2 2 13 8 0 23
10 Atletico San Luis 17 7 2 8 21 22 9 4 1 4 10 10 8 3 1 4 11 12 -1 23
11 Pumas UNAM 17 6 4 7 24 21 8 4 2 2 14 7 9 2 2 5 10 14 3 22
12 Mazatlan 17 6 3 8 20 24 8 4 2 2 10 7 9 2 1 6 10 17 -4 21
13 Leon 17 5 6 6 17 22 9 2 4 3 10 13 8 3 2 3 7 9 -5 21
14 Santos Laguna 17 5 5 7 25 25 8 3 3 2 16 13 9 2 2 5 9 12 0 20
15 Toluca 17 5 4 8 21 36 9 2 2 5 12 19 8 3 2 3 9 17 -15 19
16 Querétaro 17 3 8 6 18 21 9 3 1 5 10 12 8 0 7 1 8 9 -3 17
17 Tijuana 17 4 5 8 14 26 8 3 4 1 10 8 9 1 1 7 4 18 -12 17
18 Juárez 17 3 2 12 10 28 9 1 1 7 7 15 8 2 1 5 3 13 -18 11

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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.