The second week of activities in the Liga MX Apertura 2024 brings a very interesting match for Guadalajara, who will face Xolos de Tijuana at the Estadio Caliente.
Chivas reaffirmed the high points that made them a contending team last semester, while the Baja Californians begin a new project under the guidance of Juan Carlos Osorio. So that you don't miss a single piece of information about the match to be played tomorrow at 9 PM (TCM), we bring you everything you need to know here.
How do they look coming into the match?
-The Rebaño Sagrado earned a point in their first game of the semester, after a 0-0 draw with Toluca at the Fortaleza Rojiblanca in a match in which they deserved to win. With one point from one game played, Chivas is 11th in the league standings.
-On the other side, the Fronterizos visited the Estadio Corregidora, where they brought home three points against Querétaro. With this, the Caninos are currently in second place in the standings.
What happened the last time they faced each other?
-It was on Game Day 3 of the CL24, also at the Estadio Caliente, when they last met. On that cold night in Tijuana, the result was 1-1, with Roberto Alvarado scoring the Red and White goal.
Latest line-ups
Chivas: 1 Raúl Rangel; 2 Alan Mozo, 3 Gilberto Sepúlveda, 13 Gilberto Chiquete, 21 José Castillo; 15 Érick Gutiérrez, 20 Fernando Beltrán, 25 Roberto Alvarado; 16 Cade Cowell, 24 Carlos Cisneros, 14 Javier Hernández (C).
Coach Fernando Gago
Tijuana: 2 Antonio Rodríguez; 4 Nicolás Díaz, 18 Aarón Mejía, 28 Jesús Gómez, 35 Kevin Balanta; 8 Fernando Madrigal, 14 Christian Rivera (C), 33 Emanuel Reynoso, 11 Efraín Álvarez; 27 Domingo Blanco, 32 Carlos González.
Coach Juan Carlos Osorio
Who are the Chivas on the call-up list?
To find out which players could see minutes tomorrow in Tijuana, CLICK HERE.
Who will the referees be?
-Referee: Iván Antonio López Sánchez
-Assistant 1: Jéssica Fernanda Morales Morales
-Assistant 2: Oscar Yahir Barriga Castro
-Fourth: Aldo Ballesteros Barba
Did you know that...?
-Guadalajara is undefeated against Tijuana in the last nine Liga MX 1 meetings (6W 3D), with five clean sheets and only four goals conceded. Five of these nine matches have taken place on the border.
-The Chiverío has not conceded a goal in nine of their last 11 Liga MX matches (6W, 4D, 1L), with 11 goals scored during this span, Chivas have a goal-scoring differential of +6, while in the 11 matches prior to this streak their differential was 0 (15 GF, 15 GA).
-Fernando Beltrán was one of the Mexican leaders in successful dribbles on the opening day of the AP24 with 4.
-Chivas was the team that committed the fewest fouls on the opening day of the Apertura 2024, with just five. The average number of infractions on that matchday was 11.6 per team.
-Guadalajara have won the last seven Liga MX matches in which they scored the first goal of the match, a streak that began in February 2024. Chivas' unbeaten streak of scoring first is 21 matches (19W 2D), and began since July 2023. S
-The Rebaño had a passing efficiency of 86.2% against Toluca in the opener, the 6th highest such record for Chivas in Liga MX since 90% against Monterrey in March of this year.
-Raúl Rangel, with 10 clean sheets this year in Liga Mx, is just three shy of the best record by a Chivas goalkeeper in a calendar year since at least 2018 (Miguel Jiménez with 13 in 2023). However, Rangel has 22 games played, while Jiménez achieved that mark in 41 appearances.
-No team had more counterattacks on the first day of AP24 than Chivas, with five in total. Their opponents for this matchday were their closest pursuers, as Tijuana accumulated four in total.
