📏 Form Guide

Monterrey

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Monterrey will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 3-1 CONCACAF Champions League victory versus Inter Miami.

For Monterrey, the scorers were Brandon Vázquez (31'), Germán Berterame (58') and Jesús Gallardo (64'). Diego Gómez (85') was the scorer for Inter Miami.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Monterrey have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. The reality is that Monterrey have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 8 goals on the way.

Tigres de la UANL

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In their previous fixture, Tigres drew 1-1 in the CONCACAF Champions League match with Columbus Crew.

The only name on the scoresheet from Tigres de la UANL was André-Pierre Gignac (3'). Diego Rossi (59') scored for Columbus Crew. Columbus Crew ran out winners after a 3-4 penalty shootout.

The numbers tell their own story, and Tigres have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals in all. At the back, Tigres de la UANL can certainly do much better. That pattern won’t necessarily be continued here, however.

Ahead of this clash, Tigres de la UANL have left without a victory over Monterrey in away games against them for the last 2 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 20/03/2022 shows that Monterrey have won 1 of these and Tigres 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 2.

A total of 9 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 2 of them for Los Rayados and 7 netted by Los Tigres. That is an average goals per game value of 1.5.

The last league game featuring these clubs was Liga MX (Apertura) match day 9 on 24/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Tigres de la UANL 3-0 Monterrey.

That day, Tigres de la UANL managed 47% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorers were André-Pierre Gignac (29', 59') and Diego Lainez (71').

Monterrey had 10 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

The referee was Marco Ortiz.

📋 Team News: Monterrey

The Monterrey boss Fernando Ortiz will be grateful to have no fitness worries to speak of coming into this clash owing to a fully healthy squad to pick from.

We think that Los Rayados will probably use the 4-5-1 system for this game, beginning the first half with Esteban Andrada, Jesus Gallardo, Gerardo Arteaga, Victor Guzman, Sebastian Vegas, Luis Romo, Erick Aguirre, Maximiliano Meza, Sergio Canales, Jorge Rodriguez and Brandon Vazquez.

📰 Team News: Tigres

With a completely injury-free group to pick from, the Tigres manager Robert Siboldi has zero fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this match.

It’s our belief that Los Tigres might utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with C. Felipe Rodríguez, Juan José Purata, Diego Reyes, Jesús Ángel Garza, Eduardo Tercero, Juan Pablo Vigón, R. De Souza, L. Enrique Quinones, Sebastián Córdova, J. Ozziel Herrera and Andre Pierre Gignac.

⚡ Prediction

For this match, we think that Tigres de la UANL certainly have the ability to put one past this Monterrey outfit, although it probably won’t quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

Our selection here is for a close game with a 2-1 win for Monterrey when the full-time whistle blows. Definitely a tough call.

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Andre Moura, 03:01 14/04/2024