We are just a few hours away from the most anticipated match in the Pearl of the West, this Saturday at 7:05 p.m., Guadalajara will host Atlas at the Akron Stadium for the Clásico Tapatío on Matchday 11 of the Apertura 2024.
How do they look coming in to the match?
- Chivas is coming off a 1-1 draw with Rayados, which puts them in ninth place in the standings with 15 points.
- Atlas arrives at the Clásico Tapatío after a 4-1 loss to Toluca, which keeps them in ninth place overall with 14 points.
What happened the last time they met?
- The most recent match between the two was played on Matchday 17 of the Clausura 2024, and on that day, the Rebaño won 1-0 with a wonderful goal scored by Roberto Alvarado. That victory was very valuable for Chiverío, which advanced directly to the Playoffs.
What's new in Guadalajara's call-up list?
- If you want to know the list of called-up players and all the news, CLICK HERE and find out the details.
Latest line-ups
Chivas: Raúl Rangel, Alan Mozo, Antonio Briseño, Gilberto Chiquete, José Castillo, Rubén González, Erick Gutiérrez, Fernando Beltrán, Roberto Alvarado, Carlos Cisneros, Armando González.
Atlas: Camilo Vargas, Hugo Nervo, Matheus Doria, Luis Reyes, José Lozano, Edgar Zaldívar, Raymundo Fulgencio, Jeremy Márquez, Aldo Rocha, Jhon Murillo, Eduardo Aguirre.
The refereeing corps
- Referee: Fernando Hernández.
- Assistant 1: Marco Bisguerra
- Assistant 2: Jonathan Gómez
- Fourth official: Yonatan Peinado
Did you know?
- Guadalajara has won the last 3 Liga matches against Atlas.
- In fact, 2 of those 3 matches were played at the Akron Stadium and in both of them the victory was Rojiblanca's (1-0 in the CL23 Liguilla and 4-1 in the AP23).
- Chivas has gone 10 games without losing at home in Liga MX. Should they win against the Rojinegros, they would equal what they achieved in 2017, when they went 11 matches without defeat at home.
- This will be the 70th match between the two teams in the history of short tournaments. The record favors Guadalajara, which has won 27, drawn 22 and lost 20.
- The highest goals in the history of this rivalry have come courtesy of the Rebaño Sagrado, who have beaten them on 3 occasions by a score of 4-1 (game day 16 of AP09, Quarterfinals of CL15 and game day 12 of AP23).
- Chivas remains the second best defense in the tournament with only 8 goals allowed in 10 matches.
- In addition, Fernando Gago's team comes into this Clasico Tapatio as the fourth best offense in AP24 with 15 goals scored.
- El Rebaño Sagrado has now played 12 consecutive games in the league with 10 or more shots on goal. Against Monterrey, they did so on 11 occasions.
- If he scores in this Saturday's match, Roberto Alvarado will reach 5 goals against Atlas wearing the Rojiblanca jersey.
- Piojo' has scored 2 goals in 2 matches against the city's rivals.
