Fasten your seatbelts for one of the major highlights of the season: The CONCACAF Champions League final where Monterrey and América will do all they can to write themselves into the history books. Game on!
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Monterrey form and stats
4-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Liga MX numbers at home for Monterrey so far this season. On the other hand, in the CONCACAF Champions League, Monterrey has performed like this (both home and away): 5 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses. Regardless of arena the trend is looking very unhealthy for Monterrey with their four defeats in a row. Not since the Santos Laguna game, 32 days ago, have they avoided a loss.
Monterrey haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 321 minutes ago. M. Meza scored that one.
Monterrey's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Necaxa. Heartbreak for Monterrey in their last match as Necaxa's R. Aguirre scored the winning goal deep into overtime. Alan Montes was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.33 out of 10. The defender Montes won 14 of 18 duels.
Prior to that, an away loss at Queretaro in the Liga MX.This is expected to be a close game, with Monterrey perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Monterrey as a small favourite), we find three games. Monterrey has won two of these, drawn zero and lost one.
The manager J. Aguirre Onaindía will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Atletico San Luis in only three days.
Monterrey are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 8 games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Monterrey have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 4 goals.
América form and stats
They also participated in CONCACAF Champions League last season. This ended in the semi-finals.The visitors are W3-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Liga MX. When we have look at the CONCACAF Champions League statistics, we find 4W-1D-1L. This is both home and away. The fact that América have won four matches in a row should scare the hosts and makes this contest more interesting.
América had fun at their own home (Estadio BBVA Bancomer) last time out, beating Tigres UANL 1-0. Henry Martín scored. Miguel Layún, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.03. Layún served one assist, hit three key passes and won 2 of 4 duels.
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Santos Laguna in the Liga MX.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by América in our archives, and the results are: seven wins for América, three draws and three defeats.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Liga MX trip to Cruz Azul.
América are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 7 games (in the league). It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. América are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 6 times in 7 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (Monterrey wins - draws - América wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Funes Mori 4 goals |  D. Vergara Hernández 4 goals |  Á. Fidalgo Fernández 4 goals |
Monterrey missing players
América missing players
| Monterrey | América | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 9 | Won | W | 7 | 18 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | ||
| 41 | 21 | Scored | S | 13 | 36 | ||
| 22 | 5 | Conceded | C | 9 | 15 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 57% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 60% | ||
| 44% | 21% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 28% | ||
| 28% | 14% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 4% | ||
| 52% | 21% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 36% | ||
| 36% | 64% | Clean Sheets | C S | 58% | 60% | ||
| 16% | 21% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 12% | ||
| 4.6 | 4.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.1 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.4 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3.3 | ||
| 2.2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.5 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 4 | ||
| 13.9 | 15.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.1 | 13.6 | ||
| 4.9 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 5.5 | ||
| 29% | 26% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 29% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | América | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 34 |
| 2 | Atlas | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 23 |
| 3 | Tigres UANL | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 22 |
| 4 | Leon | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 22 |
| 5 | Toluca | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 22 |
| 6 | Cruz Azul | 14 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 20 |
| 7 | Monterrey | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 20 |
| 8 | Mazatlán | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -4 | 20 |
| 9 | Guadalajara | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| 10 | Puebla | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -3 | 18 |
| 11 | Atletico San Luis | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 17 |
| 12 | Necaxa | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 17 |
| 13 | Santos Laguna | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 16 |
| 14 | Pachuca | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -1 | 15 |
| 15 | Queretaro | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -5 | 15 |
| 16 | Juarez | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -6 | 15 |
| 17 | Pumas UNAM | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 14 |
| 18 | Tijuana | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -12 | 9 |