📏 Form Guide

Necaxa

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Necaxa will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 2-3 Liga MX (Clausura) triumph versus Club Tijuana.

In that match, Necaxa managed 41% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. For Necaxa, the goalscorers were Diber Cambindo (38') and José Paradela (85', 91'). At the other end, Tijuana had 13 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Carlos González (45') and Domingo Blanco (74') scored for Club Tijuana.

Necaxa have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 11 during that period and have conceded a total of 9. Putting that to one side, we’ll just have to find out if the trend shall be replicated in this game or not.

Heading into this contest, Necaxa have not lost a league tie with Santos Laguna in their previous 2 matches.

Santos Laguna

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In their previous fixture, Santos Laguna drew 1-1 in the Liga MX (Clausura) tie with Club América.

In that match, Santos Laguna had 46% possession and 8 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for Santos Laguna was Stephano Carrillo (59'). América had 18 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Alejandro Zendejas (76') scored for Club América.

Over the course of their last six outings, Santos Laguna have bagged a tally of 9 goals. Santos Laguna have also scored in every single one of those games. During that period, they have had 5 goals go against them.

Leading up to this clash, Santos Laguna:

• are undefeated by Necaxa in away games against them for the last 2 league games.
• are without an away win for the past 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 08/03/2021 shows that Necaxa have won 2 of these games & Santos Laguna 3, with the number of draws being 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 23 overall which averages out at 3.83 goals per meeting.

The previous league clash between the two was Liga MX (Apertura) match day 9 on 25/09/2023 which ended up with the score at Santos Laguna 2-5 Necaxa.

In that game, Santos Laguna had 65% possession and 26 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Harold Preciado (69', 83').

On the other side, Necaxa got 14 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Alejandro Andrade (32', 52'), Ricardo Monreal (49'), Fernando Arce (64') and Alexis Peña (67') scored.

The match was refereed by Oscar Mejia Garcia.

🗞️ Team News: Necaxa

The Necaxa boss Eduardo Fentanes has zero fitness worries whatsoever coming into this match thanks to a completely healthy group ready to go.

It’s our opinion that Lightning Bolts should line up in a 4-4-1-1 formation this time featuring Luis Ezequiel Unsain, Alexis Peña, Alan Montes, Agustín Oliveros, Jorge Rodriguez, Bryan Garnica, Diego Gomez, Fernando Arce, Braian Samudio, J. Antonio Paradela and Ricardo Monreal.

🗞️ Team News: Santos Laguna

Due to a completely healthy group available to choose from, the Santos Laguna boss Ignacio Ambriz has no fitness worries at all coming into this clash.

We believe Guerreros could decide to elect for a 4-3-3 system, starting Carlos Acevedo Lopez, Vladimir Loroña, Bruno Amione, M. Dória Macedo, Emmanuel Echeverria, Alan Cervantes, Aldo López Vargas, Salvador Mariscal, Jordan Carrillo, Stéphano Carrillo and Ramiro Sordo.

⚡ Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Santos Laguna certainly have the ability to breach the defence of this Necaxa lineup, but that may not be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re tipping a 2-1 victory for Necaxa when all is said and done. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

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

Victor Martins, 02:13 13/04/2024