Pachuca vs Santos Laguna Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Pachuca

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Pachuca will be wanting a better result here following the 5-0 Liga MX (Apertura) defeat last time out to Toluca.

In that match, Pachuca managed 33% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. On the other side, Toluca had 14 shots on goal with 7 on target. Tiago Volpi (26'), Maximiliano Araújo (29'), Juan Domínguez (53') and Pedro Raul (57', 63') scored for Toluca.

It has been all too rare in recent times that Pachuca have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Pachuca have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 games, leaking 13 goals during that time.

Heading into this fixture, Pachuca haven't lost in the league to Santos Laguna in their last 2 games.

Santos Laguna

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Santos Laguna will go into the meeting following on from a 2-1 Liga MX (Apertura) win to defeat Universidad Nacional in their previous match.

In that game, Santos Laguna managed 40% possession and 22 shots at goal with 10 of them on target. The scorer for Santos Laguna was Harold Preciado (45'). At the other end, UNAM got 13 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Gabriel Fernández (14' Own goal, 35') scored for Universidad Nacional.

Indicating their predisposition for productive matches, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the previous 6 matches in which Santos Laguna have taken to the pitch, yielding an average of 3.33 goals per clash. Opposition teams have managed 9 from this total. That trend isn’t assured to be carried forward into this match, of course.

Their prior results show that Santos Laguna:

• have left without a victory over Pachuca when they have played them away from home in the previous 8 matches in the league. It has been a terrible run on the road.
• are without an away win for the past 2 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head clashes dating back to 27/04/2021 shows us that Pachuca have won 3 of these games & Santos Laguna 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 2.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 22 in all which averages out at 3.67 goals per meeting.

📰 Team News: Pachuca

The Pachuca manager Guillermo Almada has no fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash with a completely healthy group to pick from.

We think that Los Tuzos will probably line up in a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game with Carlos Moreno, José Castillo, Sergio Barreto, Gustavo Cabral, Miguel Rodríguez, Francisco Figueroa, Elías Montiel, David Terans, Erick Sánchez, Marino Hinestroza and Roberto de la Rosa.

ℹ️ Team News: Santos Laguna

Thanks to a mainly available squad, there is just the lone fitness problem for the Santos Laguna gaffer Pablo Repetto to contend with. Pedro Aquino (Unknown Injury) misses out for this game.

From our viewpoint, Guerreros will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting the game with Gibrán Lajud, Omar Campos, Ismael Govea, M. Dória Macedo, Felix Torres, Emerson Rodríguez, Alan Cervantes, J. F. Brunetta, Diego Medina, Aldo López Vargas and H. Fabián Preciado.

💡 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Pachuca will, in all likelihood, be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

However, Santos Laguna may well struggle to score themselves but we do think it’s quite likely that they will be hitting back at some stage.

We’re tipping a controlled 3-1 winning margin for Pachuca at the end of this one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 00:35 15/09/2023