📊 Form Guide

Querétaro FC

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Querétaro FC will be looking for a repeat result of a 0-2 Liga MX (Clausura) success vs León.

In that game, Querétaro FC had 30% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 5 on target. For Querétaro FC, the goalscorers were Samuel Sosa (33') and Pablo Barrera (75'). Leon got 23 shots on goal with 5 of them on target.

In their last 6 games, Mauro Gerk's Querétaro FC have hit the target a total of 12 times - an average number of goals per match of 2.

Mazatlán

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Universidad Nacional in Liga MX (Clausura) action, Mazatlán will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Mazatlán managed 50% possession and 12 shots on goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Mazatlán was José Madueña (1' Own goal). UNAM got 12 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Rogelio Funes Mori (67'), César Huerta (87') and Leonardo Suárez (93') scored for Universidad Nacional.

The numbers tell their own story, and Mazatlán have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 13 goals in total. Defensively, Mazatlán have some weaknesses to address. Having said that, we’ll just have to find out if the trend might be sustained here in this match or not.

Coming into this clash, Mazatlán haven’t won away from home in the past 8 league matches. Their travelling support will be needed here, for sure.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 27/02/2021 tells us that Querétaro FC have won 1 of these & Mazatlán 3, with the tally of drawn results standing at 2.

A sum of 15 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 5 from Gallos Blancos and 10 created by Mazatlán. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.5.

The last league encounter between these sides was Liga MX (Apertura) match day 14 on 28/10/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Mazatlán 3-0 Querétaro FC.

That day, Mazatlán had 65% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 5 on target. The goalscorers were Josué Colmán (77'), Francisco Venegas (88') and Luis Amarilla (91').

Querétaro FC got 10 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target.

The referee was Luis Santander.

🗞️ Team News: Querétaro FC

It’s a low absenteeism rate, with just the sole fitness concern for the Querétaro FC manager Mauro Gerk to be concerned about from a near full-strength squad. Jonathan Perlaza (Cruciate ligament tear) is sidelined.

It looks as if Gallos Blancos will probably line up in a 4-4-2 formation featuring Fernando Tapia, Francisco Venegas, Jaime Gomez, M. Ángel Barbieri, Emanuel Gularte, Pablo Barrera, Kevin Escamilla, Federico Lértora, Raúl Sandoval, Samuel Sosa and Facundo Batista.

🗞️ Team News: Mazatlán

With a completely injury-free squad available for selection, the Mazatlán boss Ismael Rescalvo has zero fitness concerns whatsoever before this match.

From our viewpoint, Mazatlán could decide to begin the game with a 4-4-2 lineup, going with Hugo Gonzalez, J. Antonio Madueña, Facundo Almada, L. Gustavo Sánchez, Salvador Rodríguez, Eduard Bello, Andrés Montaño, Sergio Flores, Josué Colmán, Gustavo Del Prete and Luis Amarilla.

💭 Prediction

Our thinking is that Mazatlán should have enough to find the net against this Querétaro FC team, although that is unlikely to be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We’re predicting both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Querétaro FC by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

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

Andre Moura, 01:04 13/04/2024