Toluca vs Cruz Azul Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Toluca

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Toluca will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 1-5 Liga MX (Clausura) victory over Atlético San Luis.

In that game, Toluca had 51% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. For Toluca, goals were scored by Alexis Vega (13'), Jesús Angulo (30'), Jean Meneses (52', 58') and Brian García (69'). On the other side, Atlético San Luis got 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Unai Bilbao (20') scored for Atlético San Luis.

Matches featuring Toluca have often been exciting ones recently with a lot of goalmouth action being a real hallmark. Over their past six clashes alone, a grand total of 27 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 4.5 goals per game) with 17 of them coming from Toluca. Previous results aside, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend might be replicated in this upcoming match or not.

A look at their previous results shows us that Toluca:

• are unbeaten in the league by Cruz Azul in their last 3 games.
• are undefeated in their last 7 league matches at home.

Cruz Azul

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In their last fixture, Cruz Azul drew 2-2 in the Liga MX (Clausura) tie with Atlas.

In that match, Cruz Azul had 68% possession and 29 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Cruz Azul, the scorers were Ignacio Rivero (40') and Camilo Cándido (71'). On the other side, Atlas had 14 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Eduardo Aguirre (13') and Jeremy Márquez (38') scored for Atlas.

Martín Anselmi's Cruz Azul have fired home 6 times in the course of their previous 6 matches. The aggregate of goals that have been scored against them during those matches adds up to 8.

Coming into this meeting, Cruz Azul haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head meetings going back to 16/05/2021, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Toluca winning 3 of those games, Cruz Azul 3 and 0 being draws in normal time.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 24 overall at an average of 4 goals per match.

The last league encounter between these sides was Liga MX (Apertura) match day 2 on 08/07/2023 when the final score was Cruz Azul 0-2 Toluca.

On that occasion, Cruz Azul had 43% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

For their opponents, Toluca had 12 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Tiago Volpi (37') and Juan Domínguez (92') scored.

The match was refereed by Ismael López.

📋 Team News: Toluca

The Toluca manager Renato Paiva will be thankful to have no fitness concerns at all before this game with a completely healthy group to pick from.

It’s our opinion that Los Diablos Rojos should opt for a 4-2-3-1 system in the match, utilising Tiago Volpi, C. Emilio Orrantia, Federico Pereira, Juan Escobar, Brian García, Claudio Baeza, Tomás Belmonte, J. Pablo Domínguez, Jesús Angulo, Jean Meneses and Ernesto Alexis Vega.

📋 Team News: Cruz Azul

Owing to an otherwise healthy group, there’s only the lone fitness problem for the Cruz Azul boss Martín Anselmi to be concerned about. Gabriel Fernández (Cruciate ligament injury) misses out for this game.

We are inclined to think that La Máquina Azul will likely elect for a 4-5-1 system, choosing Kevin Mier, Carlos Rodriguez, Willer Ditta, Gonzalo Piovi, Erik Lira, Uriel Antuna, Ignacio Rivero, Lorenzo Faravelli, C. Rodolfo Rotondi, Alexis Gutiérrez and A. B. Sepulveda.

⚡ Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Cruz Azul are dangerous enough to put a goal past this Toluca team, however it may not quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We reckon that it will be a 2-1 win for Toluca at the end of the match. Let’s just see how this one goes.

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Lucas Pereira, 00:18 24/04/2024