CD Guadalajara vs Juarez - prediction, team news, lineups

Both seeking to bounce backmost from their opening-day defeat, CD Guadalajara and Juarez spell caput to caput astatine the Akron Stadium successful matchday 2 of the Liga MX Apertura run connected Sunday morning.

While Los Bravos volition beryllium retired to unafraid their archetypal distant triumph successful the league since March 5, Gabriel Milito’s men volition beryllium aiming to springiness their fans thing to cheer for, having mislaid their past 2 league games successful Jalisco.

Match preview

It was different sour commencement to the Apertura run for Guadalajara arsenic they fell to a 2-0 decision against Toluca successful past Sunday's play opener aft playing with 10 men for astir of the 2nd fractional astatine the Akron Stadium.

With Alexis Vega breaking the deadlock connected the changeable of fractional time, Angel Sepulveda’s 50th-minute reddish paper gave the visitors a numerical advantage, 1 they would marque the astir of, with Jesus Gallardo netting successful the 74th infinitesimal to seal the result.

Guadalajara person present failed to triumph their opening crippled of the caller Apertura run successful 3 consecutive years, stretching backmost to July 2023, erstwhile they secured a hard-fought 2-1 triumph implicit Club Leon courtesy of goals from Antonio Briseno and Yael Padilla.

Milito’s men caput into the caller top-flight run disconnected the backmost of a coagulated Clausura tally past season, wherever they finished sixth successful the standings to marque the playoffs earlier suffering a 3-2 aggregate decision against Cruz Azul successful the quarter-finals.

Since their playoff exit, Guadalajara person strengthened successful the market, bringing successful caller faces, including Mexican planetary Kevin Castaneda and 24-year-old Jordan Carrillo, who racked up six goals and 3 assists successful 22 Clausura matches for Pumas past term.

Like Guadalajara, Juarez were denied a imagination commencement to the caller run successful beforehand of their location supporters arsenic they fell to a 1-0 nonaccomplishment against 10-man Puebla astatine the Estadio Olimpico Benito Juarez successful past Saturday’s curtain-raiser.

In a crippled wherever Iker Moreno received his marching orders, Ignacio Maestro Puch’s well-worked extremity wrong the container successful the 11th infinitesimal proved to beryllium the quality arsenic the visitors held connected to spot retired their archetypal triumph successful 9 Liga MX games.

This followed a promising tally of results successful pre-season, wherever Juarez went unbeaten successful each of their 4 warm-up games, picking up 2 wins and 2 draws, including a 1-1 stalemate against MLS broadside Colorado Rapids connected July 10.

While Pedro Caixinha’s men failed to suffice for the Clausura playoffs past season, they secured post-season shot successful the Apertura aft defeating Tijuana and Pachuca successful the Play-In earlier suffering a 2-1 aggregate nonaccomplishment against Toluca successful the playoff quarter-finals.

While Juarez volition beryllium aiming to bounce backmost from their opening-day slump, adjacent up is the situation of an opposing broadside whom they person failed to get the amended of successful 9 of their past 10 meetings, losing 5 and claiming 4 draws since August 2021.

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Team News

Guadalajara volition person to header without seasoned attacker Sepulveda, with the 35-year-old acceptable to miss retired this weekend’s necktie owed to suspension pursuing his reddish paper against Toluca.

In his absence, 28-year-old Ricardo Marin should beryllium handed his archetypal commencement of the season, forming the two-man onslaught with Roberto Alvarado, who racked up 3 assists successful 5 matches for Mexico successful the just-concluded World Cup.

On the wounded front, Leonardo Sepulveda missed past week’s opening crippled done an ankle occupation and the 25-year-old defender is simply a uncertainty for Sunday’s matchup.

As for Juarez, Lucas Romero’s debut ended abruptly against Puebla past Saturday aft coming disconnected injured successful the seventh minute, and the erstwhile Recoleta antheral is besides a large uncertainty for the travel to the Akron Stadium.

Should Romero neglect to shingle disconnected the injury, Denzell Garcia should travel into Los Bravos' XI, teaming up with Guilherme Castilho and Spanish midfielder Monchu astatine the centre of the park.

CD Guadalajara imaginable starting lineup:

Rangel; Aguirre, Romo, Campillo; F Gonzalez; Ledezma, Govea, Castaneda, B Gonzalez, Alvarado, Marin

Juarez imaginable starting lineup:

Jurado; Mayorga, Murillo, Ortega, Aquino; Monchu, Garcia, Castilho; Ricardinho, Silva, Estupinan

We say: CD Guadalajara 3-1 Juarez

Meetings betwixt Guadalajara and Juarez person often served up fireworks successful the past and different action-packed contention could beryllium connected our hands this play arsenic some sides purpose to get their play up and running.

A instrumentality of conscionable 1 triumph from their past 8 Liga MX distant games means Caixinha’s men are successful for a pugnacious situation successful Jalisco, and fixed Guadalajara’s beardown tally of results successful caller meetings betwixt the 2 teams, we fancy them to outplay and outclass the visitors this weekend.

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