📏 Form Guide

Puebla

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Puebla will be looking for an improved result here after the 1-0 Liga MX (Clausura) defeat in their last game at the hands of CD Guadalajara.

In that game, Puebla managed 46% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For their opponents, Guadalajara got 13 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Érick Gutiérrez (37') was the scorer for CD Guadalajara.

An interesting aspect of more recent Puebla games is the number of nil scores.

From their previous 6 matches before this one, in as many as 5 of them a bet on "Both Teams to Score" would've been a loser. Even so, time will tell if the trend might be replicated here in this game.

Pre-game facts show that Puebla:

• have not registered a win against Necaxa in their previous 2 league games.
• are without a home win in the past 3 league games.

Necaxa

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In their previous fixture, Necaxa drew 2-2 in the Liga MX (Clausura) match with FC Juárez.

In that game, Necaxa managed 44% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. For Necaxa, the goalscorers were Agustín Palavecino (47') and José Paradela (63'). For their opponents, FC Juarez got 13 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Castilho (45') and Dieter Villalpando (78') scored for FC Juárez.

Necaxa have seen success in front of goal leading up to this encounter, scoring 13 times in their last 6 matches. Having said that, Necaxa have had their own issues at the back, also conceding in 5 of those same clashes.

Pre-game facts show that Necaxa:

• have not been beaten by Puebla in games played away from home for the previous 3 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head meetings going back to 23/04/2022 tells us that Puebla have won 1 of these games & Necaxa 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 2.

A total of 18 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 7 for Los Camoteros and 11 being from Lightning Bolts. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.

The last league meeting featuring these sides was Liga MX (Apertura) match day 2 on 13/07/2024 when it ended Necaxa 4-1 Puebla.

On that day, Necaxa had 47% possession and 25 attempts on goal with 9 of them on target. The scorers were Agustín Palavecino (11'), Diber Cambindo (15', 52') and Kevin Rosero (76').

On the other side, Puebla got 18 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Rafael Durán (87') scored.

The referee was Abraham de Jesús Quirarte.

📋 Team News: Necaxa

Thanks to a mainly healthy group, there’s just the lone fitness problem for the Necaxa manager Nicolás Larcamón to be concerned with. Agustín Oliveros (Shin injury) won’t be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Necaxa and Puebla are probably both going to find scoring goals difficult here.

At this stage, it appears to have the makings of a possible draw. We’re therefore seeing a very close game with a 0-0 scoreline at the end of the 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 00:05 19/04/2025