Toluca vs Necaxa - prediction, team news, lineups

Necaxa tin support their cleanable grounds successful the 2026-27 Liga MX Apertura run live with a triumph connected Sunday implicit Toluca astatine Estadio Nemesio Diez.

Last Tuesday, Diablos Rojos suffered their archetypal decision of the caller season, 2-1 astatine Pumas, portion Necaxa improved to 2-0 successful the Apertura, acknowledgment to a 2-1 triumph implicit Monterrey.

Match preview

Some hard second-half performances past week proved to beryllium the undoing of Toluca, who are successful a insignificant slump heading into this weekend.

Antonio Mohamed’s men person mislaid their past 2 competitory fixtures, falling to Cruz Azul 3-1 successful the Campeon de Campeones last past weekend.

They person failed to people a second-half extremity successful their past 2 matches played crossed each competitions and connected Sunday could endure consecutive Apertura defeats for the archetypal clip since losing their last 3 outings of the 2023 season.

The reigning champions of this contention are successful information of suffering a 2nd location decision successful the Apertura regular season, which would beryllium 1 much than they incurred successful the past campaign.

Finding the backmost of the nett astatine location has not been casual for them of late, with this broadside scoring a extremity oregon less successful 4 of their past 5 competitory outings astatine Estadio Nemesio Diez.

Their past six location meetings versus Necaxa ended with Toluca earning a affirmative result, and Los Escarlatas emerging victorious connected 5 of those occasions.

We are inactive aboriginal into the caller season, but determination is simply a batch of optimism astatine Necaxa, and for bully crushed arsenic they are 1 of 4 sides successful the league that boast a 100% grounds truthful far.

All 4 of their goals scored successful the contention this twelvemonth person travel successful the last 45 minutes, portion they person not conceded successful the opening half.

Martin Varini’s broadside person not scored a first-half extremity successful their past 4 Liga MX encounters distant from home.

On Sunday they person a accidental to triumph 3 consecutive Apertura affairs successful the regular play for the archetypal clip since August of 2021.

At the aforesaid time, they tin widen their unbeaten tally distant from location successful this contention to 3 matches this weekend, netting a combined 5 times successful those past 2 outings.

Also connected Sunday, Los Rayos tin assertion their archetypal Liga MX distant triumph against Toluca since the 2020 Clausura run erstwhile a stoppage-time onslaught enabled them to triumph 3-2.

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Team News

A genu wounded volition apt forestall Oswaldo Virgen from featuring for Toluca this weekend, portion Marcel Ruiz volition not beryllium disposable arsenic helium recovers from a cruciate ligament tear.

Jorge Diaz gave them an aboriginal pb against Pumas past week, lone for his broadside to concede doubly successful the 2nd half.

Between matchdays 1 and two, we saw conscionable 1 alteration to the Necaxa starting 11, arsenic Francisco Mendez got the commencement implicit Alexis Pena versus Monterrey.

Julian Carranza has goals successful each of his past 2 games arsenic helium and Juan Valencia netted successful their matchday 2 triumph.

Toluca imaginable starting lineup:

Gonzalez; Barbosa, B. Mendez, Luan, Garcia; Arce, Guzman; Angulo, Helinho, Vega; Diaz

Necaxa imaginable starting lineup:

Jimenez; Martinez, F. Mendez, Oliveros; Monreal, Leyva, Faravelli, Rodriguez; Torres, Ruiz; Carranza

We say: Toluca 1-2 Necaxa

We judge the resilience of Necaxa, on with Carranza's finishing, volition alteration them to yet gain a triumph implicit the location squad connected Sunday.

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