Liga MX preview: Can Tijuana edge out victory against Querétaro?

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

This stadium uses artificial turf, unlike Querétaro's home stadium. The visitors last four games on artificial turf have ended in 1 win, 3 draws and 0 losses. Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2600 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

Tijuana form and stats

A good away victory last time out for Tijuana, who won 3-1 against Puebla. Prior to that, an away loss at León.

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 Tijuana have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won 3 times, drawn 1 and lost 2.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Querétaro are coming to town in three days.

Last season, Tijuana's league statistics were 9 wins, 1 draw and 7 losses, resulting in a 8th position in the Liga MX. Over these 17 matches they scored 25 goals and conceded 20. Playing at home last season Tijuana managed 6-0-2 (win-draw-lost) with 17 goals and 8 conceded.

Querétaro form and stats

Only one away game so far for Querétaro and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 0 victories, 0 draws and 8 losses from eight travels.

Querétaro play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-0 victory visiting Toluca. Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Necaxa's place.

Querétaro are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat. From a total of seven matches.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Copa MX trip to Tijuana.

As for goals scored and conceded in away games so far, Querétaro has managed 2 goals and let in 0 from 1 match.

Let's have a look at how Querétaro performed last season in the Liga MX: They landed a 17th position in the league table after playing out 3 victories, 2 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 11 and conceded 30 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 0 - drew 0 and lost 8 with 3/19 goals scored/conceded.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 4 Tijuana victories, 1 draw and 5 Querétaro wins. 6 of these games ended with three goals or more, 4 matches with two goals or less.

Tijuana missing players

Querétaro missing players