Delightful dogfight as daring Tijuana duel with determined Querétaro

These teams have little in common geographically as Querétaro have to travel 2600 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Liga MX.

Tijuana form and stats

When playing at home in the Liga MX, Tijuana have managed 2 wins, 4 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 9 games. When Tijuana hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Mazatlan, Necaxa, Tijuana, Pachuca and Juarez), they have won 2 of 4 matches!

Tijuana faced defeat in their previous match, away at Guadalajara (1-2). Midfielder Rivera was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.55 (out of ten) in that game. Rivera hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 46 successful passes (of 52 total).

Before that game, the home loss against America with the scoreline 1-3.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Tijuana handle that role? We have found 19 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are nine wins, five draws and five defeats.

Tijuana's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. Tijuana has at home met teams with this table position (low), four times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 3 of 4 times.

Querétaro form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Querétaro so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 0-4-5 (win-draw-lose). Travelling has not been lucrative for the away team as they have returned home without a win in 16 away games in a row.

Querétaro failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Cruz Azul that ended with defeat 0-1. Midfield player Escamilla was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.33/10. Escamilla hit three key passes and had 27 successful passes (of 32 total).

A 1-1 draw at Santos Laguna's stadium before that.

Querétaro are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, four draws and seven defeats. From a total of eleven matches.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Querétaro's away games in the league this season with only 3 goals from 9 matches. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Querétaro have seen the ball go into their own net 12 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The contenders have faced each other before in this season, with the match result Querétaro - Tijuana 1-1 entered in the official records. Tijuana-Querétaro H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Tijuana two wins, Querétaro four wins, four draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

M. Manotas Páez 5 goals

Á. Sepúlveda Sánchez 5 goals

L. Rodríguez 4 goals

Tijuana missing players

Querétaro missing players