📏 Form Guide

Tigres de la UANL

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Tigres enter this fixture after a 3-3 Liga MX (Clausura) draw against Monterrey.

In that game, Tigres de la UANL had 40% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For Tigres de la UANL, goals were scored by Juan Brunetta (1', 46') and Fernando Gorriarán (45'). Monterrey had 23 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. Luis Romo (8'), Gerardo Arteaga (61') and Germán Berterame (100') scored for Monterrey.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Tigres de la UANL have kept a clean sheet. In fact, Tigres de la UANL have been scored against in 6 of their previous 6 matches, giving up 11 goals along the way.

Ahead of this meeting, Tigres de la UANL haven't been beaten in the league by Necaxa in their last 3 matches.

Necaxa

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Necaxa come into this meeting following on from a 2-0 Liga MX (Clausura) win over Santos Laguna in their most recent match.

In that game, Necaxa had 27% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. For Necaxa, the goals were scored by Ricardo Monreal (40') and Braian Samudio (55'). At the other end, Santos Laguna had 4 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

Necaxa have regularly broken through opposing defences in the lead-up to this encounter, scoring 12 goals in their last 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that Necaxa have had their own issues at the back, also conceding in 5 of those same clashes. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be continued into this next game, of course.

Taking a look at their past results, Necaxa:

• have not registered a win against Tigres de la UANL in away games against them for the last 6 league matches. Not the best of away records.
• are undefeated by Tigres de la UANL when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• are undefeated in their last 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

A glance at their past head to head clashes stretching back to 04/10/2021 shows us that Tigres have won 3 of these & Necaxa 1, with the tally of draws being 2.

A total of 8 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from Los Tigres and 2 netted by Lightning Bolts. That’s an average goals per game of 1.33.

The last league fixture featuring these sides was Liga MX (Apertura) match day 4 on 21/08/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Necaxa 0-3 Tigres de la UANL.

On that occasion, Necaxa had 39% possession and 8 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

Tigres de la UANL got 9 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. André-Pierre Gignac (10'), Jesús Angulo (68') and Luis Quiñones (80') scored.

The match was refereed by Guillermo Pacheco.

ℹ️ Team News: Tigres

The Tigres boss Robert Siboldi will be grateful to have no fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this game owing to a fully healthy group available to choose from.

It seems likely that Los Tigres should make use of the 4-3-3 system for the game, beginning the first half with C. Felipe Rodríguez, Jesús Ángel Garza, Eduardo Tercero, Samir Santos, Jesús Angulo, Fernando Gorriarán, R. De Souza, Juan Pablo Vigón, J. F. Brunetta, Andre Pierre Gignac and Marcelo Flores.

📋 Team News: Necaxa

Thanks to a fully injury-free squad to choose from, the Necaxa manager Eduardo Fentanes does not have any fitness worries to report before this clash.

We believe Lightning Bolts might begin the game with a 4-3-3 lineup, settling for Luis Ezequiel Unsain, Alexis Peña, Jorge Rodriguez, Agustín Oliveros, Alan Montes, Diego Gomez, Fernando Arce, Bryan Garnica, Ricardo Monreal, Braian Samudio and J. Antonio Paradela.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that Necaxa should get enough chances to break down this Tigres de la UANL side, but that is unlikely to be enough to avoid defeat.

We’re tipping a 2-1 winning score for Tigres de la UANL when all is said and done. Should be a good one.

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Andre Moura, 01:05 21/04/2024