Atlas vs Monterrey - prediction, team news, lineups

Atlas invited Monterrey to the Jalisco Stadium successful Guadalajara connected Sunday successful Matchday 3 of the Liga MX Apertura, with the hosts looking to marque it 3 wins from 3 successful the aboriginal weeks of the caller campaign.

Hernan Crespo’s broadside beryllium 3rd successful the array aft 2 convincing distant victories, portion Matias Almeyda’s Monterrey get having won 1 and mislaid 1 from their opening 2 fixtures and successful request of a effect connected the road.

Match preview

Atlas person made an awesome commencement to the Apertura, winning some of their opening fixtures connected the roadworthy to accumulate six points and beryllium 3rd successful the table. 

Only extremity quality separates them from the league leaders, and they present person the accidental to physique further momentum erstwhile they play astatine the Jalisco Stadium for the archetypal clip this season.

Crespo’s broadside opened their run with a 3-2 triumph astatine Leon, with Duk, Arturo Gonzalez and Aldo Rocha - the second from the punishment spot scoring the goals. 

A narrow 1-0 triumph astatine Santos Laguna followed, with Edgar Zaldivar’s 64th-minute onslaught proving the difference, and Atlas caput into Sunday’s fixture with assurance precocious and nary points dropped.

The Argentine manager’s accomplishment successful Guadalajara has gone smoothly truthful far, having taken complaint conscionable 4 months aft being dismissed from his erstwhile relation successful Brazil. 

Winning his archetypal 2 games is an encouraging sign, though the task facing him connected Sunday is considerably stiffer arsenic Atlas person failed to bushed Monterrey successful their past 10 meetings.

Monterrey, meanwhile, get with a much mixed representation aft the opening 2 rounds. 

Almeyda’s broadside began the Apertura with a 3-2 location win, with Lucas Ocampos netting a quick-fire brace and Jesus Corona adding a third, but they were incapable to physique connected that successful their adjacent outing.

A 2-1 decision astatine Necaxa followed, with Stefan Medina’s reddish paper successful the 20th infinitesimal leaving Monterrey a antheral down for the bulk of the match. 

They held connected until the 91st infinitesimal earlier conceding the winner, a effect that volition person frustrated Almeyda fixed however adjacent his broadside came to salvaging a constituent contempt the numerical disadvantage.

This volition beryllium Monterrey’s 2nd distant fixture of the season, and Almeyda volition beryllium anxious to unafraid their archetypal roadworthy constituent of the campaign. 

The erstwhile Chivas manager, who guided that nine to 5 titles crossed each competitions betwixt 2015 and 2018, returned to Liga MX absorption this play aft his spell astatine Sevilla ended successful March pursuing a mediocre tally of results.

The head-to-head grounds favours the visitors, with Monterrey having won six of the past 10 meetings betwixt the 2 sides, with 4 ending successful draws.

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Team News

Atlas person nary important wounded concerns heading into Sunday’s fixture, and Crespo could sanction a mostly unchanged broadside aft back-to-back winning performances.

Zaldivar is acceptable to clasp his spot successful the lineup, portion Gustavo Ferrareis and Milton Valenzuela are expected to diagnostic successful defence.

Monterrey volition beryllium without Stefan Medina for this fixture, with the right-back suspended aft his reddish paper against Necaxa.

Goalkeeper Esteban Andrada remains unavailable, with the Argentine inactive serving the remainder of a 13-match suspension helium received successful Spain’s Segunda Division, which carried implicit to Monterrey upon his instrumentality to the club.

Ocampos, who has scored 3 goals successful the opening 2 fixtures, is expected to commencement connected the wing, with Diego Rossi starring the attack.

Atlas imaginable starting lineup:

Vargas; Gustavo, Capasso, Zaldivar, Valenzuela; Duk, Schlegel, Hernandez, Mmaee; Gonzalez, Rocha

Monterrey imaginable starting lineup:

Cardenas; Chavez, Aceves, Salcedo, Arteaga; Oliver, Rodriguez; Orellano, Corona, Ocampos; Rossi

We say: Atlas 1-1 Monterrey

Monterrey’s dominance successful this fixture implicit the past decennary is hard to ignore, and contempt Atlas’s agleam commencement to the season, the visitors person the prime to guarantee they bash not permission Guadalajara empty-handed. 

Both sides person shown they tin people goals successful the opening weeks, and with neither capable to assertion wide superiority heading into Sunday, a stock of the spoils feels the astir apt outcome.

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