Liga MX: Tijuana - Tigres UANL pre-match guide and facts

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Competition: Mexico Liga MX
Competition: Sat 21.January
Match begins: 03:10 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Caliente (27333 seats)

Struggling Tijuana pray to pull off a surprise when they host enterprising Tigres UANL in the next league match. It’s 15th vs 5th and the home crowd will have so-so confidence.

Insights:
  • All of Tijuana's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Tigres UANL have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Liga MX

Tijuana's stadium, Estadio Caliente, has a artifical turf surface. Tigres UANL have grass 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 Tigres UANL when playing on artifical turf; 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss from five matches. They have scored {10 goals} in these games and conceded 5.

These teams have little in common geographically as Tigres UANL have to travel 2300 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

This should be an engrossing fixture with lots of action and energy as both teams are well rested since they last ran out on the pitch. Bring it on!

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Tijuana form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Liga MX this season. Tijuana have only managed 2 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses from their games here at Estadio Caliente. Tijuana have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

The regulars are hoping that Tijuana will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-3 away loss in the game against Juarez. The first setback in the shape of a defeat after going unbeaten in three league rounds. Defender Díaz got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.61/10. Díaz won 9 of 10 duels.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Cruz Azul that ended 1-1.

Tijuana are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 8 games. Tijuana have conceded 13 from these games.

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Tigres UANL form and stats

The visitors are W4-D2-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Liga MX.

Quiñones (2), Gignac and Gorriarán scored in Tigres UANL's previous match, the home game against Pachuca that ended 4-1. Attacker Quiñones got a player rating of 9.6 in the game. "Man of the match" Quiñones scored two goals, hit two key passes and had 32 successful passes (of 40 total).

Preceding that game was the away victory against Santos Laguna with the score of 3-0.

Tigres UANL are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 9 games (in the league). It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. It's not easy to score on Tigres UANL as they have only conceded 8 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Tigres UANL have been victorious in all of the 4 latest matches versus this team. Another win today?

The dueling parties have met earlier this season: Tigres UANL - Tijuana 1-0.

Top Goalscorers

Tigres UANLA. Gignac
A. Gignac
13 goals
TijuanaL. Rodríguez
L. Rodríguez
4 goals
Tigres UANLL. Quiñónes
L. Quiñónes
4 goals

Tijuana missing players

Tigres UANL missing players

Tijuana Tigres UANL
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 9 3 Played P 3 11 22
4 2 1 Won W 2 5 13
6 3 0 Drew D 1 2 3
9 4 2 Lost L 0 4 6
19 10 2 Scored S 5 16 35
34 14 5 Conceded C 1 10 17
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 91%
89% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 73% 68%
47% 33% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 55% 45%
21% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 9% 18%
11% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 14%
53% 44% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 45% 41%
16% 22% 33% Clean Sheets C S 67% 45% 50%
37% 33% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 18% 18%
 
4.8 5.9 7 Corners for (avg) C F 8 6.1 5.9
5.8 5 6.3 Corners against (avg) C A 1 4.5 3.8
2.4 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 3.3 2.7
5 3 2 Red cards R C 1 6 10
 
12.4 14.7 16 Shots (avg) S ( 12 13.1 15.7
3.5 4.4 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 5.1 5.2
28% 25% 18% Goal Efficiency G E 28% 29% 31%
 
14.1 11.8 15.7 Shots against (avg) S A 5.7 12.1 11.3
4.8 4.2 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 4.2 3.7
Key stats in Liga MX this season:
  • All of Tijuana's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Tigres UANL have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Tigres UANL have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Tigres UANL have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Liga MX
  • Tigres UANL have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Liga MX
  • Tijuana have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Tijuana haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 America 17 12 2 3 38 17 8 6 2 0 20 6 9 6 0 3 18 11 21 38
2 Monterrey 17 10 5 2 29 13 8 5 3 0 14 5 9 5 2 2 15 8 16 35
3 Santos Laguna 17 10 3 4 38 21 9 8 1 0 24 7 8 2 2 4 14 14 17 33
4 Pachuca 17 9 5 3 28 15 9 6 2 1 17 6 8 3 3 2 11 9 13 32
5 Tigres UANL 17 9 3 5 24 14 8 5 1 2 12 6 9 4 2 3 12 8 10 30
6 Toluca 17 7 6 4 27 23 9 4 4 1 17 13 8 3 2 3 10 10 4 27
7 Cruz Azul 17 7 3 7 26 34 9 5 1 3 15 12 8 2 2 4 11 22 -8 24
8 Puebla 17 4 10 3 25 23 9 3 5 1 13 11 8 1 5 2 12 12 2 22
9 Guadalajara 17 5 7 5 19 17 9 3 4 2 7 7 8 2 3 3 12 10 2 22
10 Leon 17 6 4 7 25 29 8 4 2 2 16 14 9 2 2 5 9 15 -4 22
11 Juarez 17 4 7 6 17 18 9 2 5 2 11 10 8 2 2 4 6 8 -1 19
12 Necaxa 17 5 4 8 19 26 8 3 1 4 11 15 9 2 3 4 8 11 -7 19
13 Atletico San Luis 17 4 6 7 15 23 9 2 2 5 7 12 8 2 4 2 8 11 -8 18
14 Mazatlan 17 3 8 6 17 24 8 2 3 3 9 12 9 1 5 3 8 12 -7 17
15 Tijuana 17 4 5 8 18 30 8 2 2 4 9 13 9 2 3 4 9 17 -12 17
16 Pumas UNAM 17 2 8 7 21 31 9 2 4 3 11 15 8 0 4 4 10 16 -10 14
17 Atlas 17 3 4 10 16 27 8 3 2 3 10 10 9 0 2 7 6 17 -11 13
18 Queretaro 17 1 6 10 18 35 8 1 4 3 10 13 9 0 2 7 8 22 -17 9

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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.