📊 Form Guide

Mazatlán

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Mazatlán are hoping to win again following the 0-2 Liga MX (Clausura) triumph over Querétaro FC.

In that match, Mazatlán managed 62% possession and 23 shots at goal with 8 on target. For Mazatlán, goals were scored by Andres Montaño (42') and Joaquín Esquivel (74'). Querétaro FC had 8 shots on goal with 0 of them on target.

Matches with Mazatlán have usually been absorbing affairs of late with a lot of goalmouth action expected. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum of 20 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 8 of them belonging to Mazatlán. Such a trend won’t necessarily be sustained into this match, however.

FC Juárez

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Club Tijuana in Liga MX (Clausura) competition, FC Juárez and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, FC Juárez had 73% possession and 15 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Tijuana had 6 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Raúl Zúñiga (88') scored for Club Tijuana.

The numbers tell their own story, and FC Juárez have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 9 goals in total. In defence, FC Juárez could really do with shoring things up.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 20/02/2021 shows that Mazatlán have won 2 of these & FC Juárez 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 1.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between them in this period, with 9 of them from Mazatlán and 9 coming from Los Bravos. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The previous league game between the two was Liga MX (Apertura) match day 7 on 02/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of FC Juárez 3-1 Mazatlán.

In that match, FC Juárez managed 43% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. Goals were scored by Diego Valoyes (13'), Aitor García (34') and Avilés Hurtado (60').

For their opponents, Mazatlán got 9 shots on goal with 3 on target. Josué Colmán (45') was the scorer.

The referee was Adonai Escobedo.

📋 Team News: Mazatlán

The Mazatlán boss Gilberto Adame does not have any fitness worries whatsoever before this game thanks to a completely healthy squad to pick from.

We are thinking that Mazatlán could kick off with a 4-4-2 formation for this one with Hugo Gonzalez, Bryan Colula, L. Gustavo Sánchez, Facundo Almada, Salvador Rodríguez, Gustavo Del Prete, J. Joaquín Esquivel, Sergio Flores, Josué Colmán, Andrés Montaño and Luis Amarilla.

📰 Team News: FC Juárez

With a completely injury-free group to pick from, the FC Juárez manager Maurício Barbieri does not have any fitness worries to report coming into this clash.

We’re of the thinking that Los Bravos seem most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 system by sending out Sebastián Jurado, Edson Fernando, Moisés Mosquera, Francisco Calvo, Ralph Orquin, Jesús Venegas, Diego Campillo, Manuel Castro, Dieter Villalpando, Aitor Garcia and Angel Zaldivar.

🧠 Prediction

In our opinion, FC Juárez will have to play well to score goals against this Mazatlán outfit who we think will just have the edge.

We’re going for a very competitive game with a 1-0 winning score for Mazatlán at the end of this game.

We’ll see what happens.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 00:03 20/04/2024