📏 Form Guide

Cruz Azul

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Cruz Azul will be looking for another win after a 2-3 Primera (Clausura) Liguilla victory over León.

In that match, Cruz Azul managed 54% possession and 12 shots on goal with 6 on target. For Cruz Azul, the scorers were Ignacio Rivero (14') and Andres Montaño (19', 41'). Leon got 7 shots at goal with 4 on target. Sebastían Santos (29') and Iván Moreno (46') scored for León.

Over their preceding 6 games, Vicente Sánchez's Cruz Azul have hit the back of the net a combined total of 9 times resulting in an average number of goals per match of 1.5.

León

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Looking at their form, and León have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 10 goals overall. At the back, León have been far from perfect. Such a pattern won’t necessarily be carried forward into this next game, of course.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 09/04/2023 shows that these encounters have not been kind to León. They’ve not managed to get themselves any wins whatsoever while Cruz Azul have remained in the ascendancy, beating them in 83 per cent of those match-ups.

A total of 17 goals were scored between them in this period, with 11 of them for La Máquina Azul and 6 coming from Los Esmeraldas. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

📋 Team News: Cruz Azul

It seems likely that La Máquina Azul will probably employ a 3-4-2-1 formation featuring Kevin Mier, Willer Ditta, Erik Lira, Jesús Orozco, Jorge Sánchez, Carlos Rodriguez, Lorenzo Faravelli, C. Rodolfo Rotondi, Luka Romero, Ignacio Rivero and A. B. Sepulveda.

📋 Team News: León

We’re of the thinking that Los Esmeraldas seem likely to utilise a 4-3-3 formation, giving starts to Alfonso Blanco, Sebastián Santos, J. Stiven Barreiro, Paul Bellón, Salvador Reyes, Nicolás Fonseca, James Rodriguez, Andres Guardado, Rodrigo Echeverria, Emiliano Rigoni and Stiven Mendoza.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the view that León certainly have the ability to breach the defence of this Cruz Azul team, although it is unlikely to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We can see both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Cruz Azul after 90 minutes. Should be an interesting one.

Renata Leite, 00:00 12/05/2025