Season ticket holders at Estadio Caliente haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Tijuana languishing in the 16th position so far. The guesting Pachuca will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Copa MX. That game was an away game at Toluca, so at least Tijuana are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Pachuca have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 2-0-1 (win-draw-loss) from three matches.
Pachuca have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 2700 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
Tijuana form and stats
Tijuana have collected 5 points from their Liga MX home games so far after 1-2-2. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Tijuana to get some points in this home game. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Tijuana, their manager G. Quinteros Desábato and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.
It's back home for Tijuana, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Toluca away with the result 4-3. M. Barbieri, C. Rivera, L. González Pírez and J. Silva found the net in that victory. Heartbreak before that as Tijuana lost 2-4 at Cruz Azul's place.
An impressive turnaround for Tijuana in the match against Toluca as a 1-3 deficit was completely turned around to a 4-3 win. M. Barbieri scored the final goal. A goal frenzy last time out for Tijuana, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Toluca. Fun stuff to watch!
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Tijuana have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won four, drawn zero and lost zero.
Tijuana have scored 3 league goals here from 5 matches, not a lot. Tijuana have only conceded 4 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Pachuca form and stats
Playing away, Pachuca have won 1 game, drawn 0 and suffered 3 defeats in the Liga MX this season.
The supporters enjoyed Pachuca's previous game versus Santos Laguna (placed 9th), a Liga MX 1-0 win played at home. A draw for Pachuca before that, at their own venue hosting Queretaro (1-1).
Pachuca goalie Óscar Ustari was high and low in the Santos Laguna game, contributing six saves towards the victory.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Pachuca in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Pachuca, three draws and one defeat.
Pachuca have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 4 league away games 4 goals have been scored. For Pachuca, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Pachuca - Tijuana 4-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three Tijuana victories, one draw and six Pachuca wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  F. Jara 12 goals |   C. Da Silva Sanvezzo 6 goals | R. Ibarra Mina 4 goals |
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 27 | 14 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 13 | 27 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 13 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 33 | 17 | 4 | Scored | S | 6 | 21 | 41 |
| 50 | 18 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 21 | 35 |
| 96% | 93% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 93% |
| 81% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | 81% |
| 59% | 43% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 69% | 52% |
| 41% | 29% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 38% | 33% |
| 26% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 15% | 15% |
| 63% | 57% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 62% | 52% |
| 15% | 21% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 23% | 33% |
| 26% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 23% | 22% |
| 4.2 | 4.5 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 4.2 | 5.7 |
| 4.6 | 4 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 5.5 | 4.7 |
| 2.4 | 2.6 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| 10 | 8 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 306 | 186 | 40 | Total Shots | T S | 44 | 174 | 402 |
| 87 | 52 | 11 | Shots on Target | S O | 17 | 57 | 122 |
| 38% | 33% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 37% | 34% |
- Pachuca have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Pachuca have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Tijuana has the fewest scored goals (3) at home
- Tijuana is in the worst form (0-2-4)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Cruz Azul | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 19 |
| 2 | Leon | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 18 |
| 3 | America | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 17 |
| 4 | Pumas UNAM | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 15 |
| 5 | Guadalajara | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 6 | Juárez | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| 7 | Queretaro | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| 8 | Pachuca | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 14 |
| 9 | Santos Laguna | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -1 | 14 |
| 10 | Atletico San Luis | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 13 |
| 11 | Necaxa | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 11 |
| 12 | Tigres UANL | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 11 |
| 13 | Puebla | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 11 |
| 14 | Morelia | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | -3 | 11 |
| 15 | Toluca | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 10 |
| 16 | Tijuana | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -7 | 6 |
| 17 | Atlas | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -8 | 6 |
| 18 | Monterrey | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 4 |