Toluca vs. Santos Laguna - prediction, team news, lineups

At the apical of the Liga MX Apertura table aft 8 rounds, Toluca invited Santos Laguna to Nemesio Diez Stadium successful gameweek nine, aiming to support their presumption aft Sunday night’s match.  

Antonio Mohamed’s broadside person remained unbeaten astatine La Bombonera pursuing a mendacious commencement against Pumas successful July, winning 3 consecutive location games, and they question a 4th astatine the disbursal of an distant squad searching for their archetypal constituent connected their travels.  

Match preview

When Toluca suffered a 2-1 decision to Pumas successful July, fewer expected the turnaround astatine location that would follow.  

That decision marked their 2nd successful 4 matches crossed each competitions astatine home, with the nonaccomplishment followed by a 3-1 setback against Cruz Azul conscionable 4 days later.  

However, since then, the Red Devils person recovered much-needed consistency successful beforehand of their fans, aiding their surge to the apical of the Apertura standings, wherever they were positioned archetypal earlier the ninth round.  

Having scored lone 1 extremity each successful the 2-1 and 3-1 defeats to Pumas and Cruz Azul, Mohamed’s men person netted 12 goals successful their past 3 matches astatine La Bombonera, defeating Necaxa 3-1, Juarez 4-0 and Atlas 5-2.  

Twelve of their location goals relationship for 66.7% of the team’s total, highlighting the important betterment connected their spot and however they person leveraged that to go array toppers up of Santos Laguna’s visit.  

Toluca whitethorn person mislaid archetypal spot by the clip they instrumentality to the transportation if Guadalajara bushed Club America successful Sunday’s precocious match, but Diablos Rojos volition backmost themselves to widen their visitors’ miserable grounds connected the road.  

This is underlined by the Warriors entering this weekend’s lucifer without a constituent distant from location successful 4 attempts.  

Renato Paiva’s broadside person mislaid each 4 matches connected their travels truthful far, conceding 3 goals successful 3 abstracted fixtures, emphasising their antiaircraft frailties.  

Although immoderate observers whitethorn enactment that 2 of those losses to Monterrey and Puebla ended 3-2, alongside a 3-0 decision against America and a constrictive 1-0 nonaccomplishment to Cruz Azul, indicating the team’s competitiveness contempt the distant defeats.  

Nonetheless, the second-bottom broadside question to the location of the pre-ninth gameweek leaders, hoping to extremity their losing streak and amended their lasting successful the table.  

Four of their points person been earned connected location turf, with thing gained connected their travels, illustrating the unit and reliance they person placed connected securing results successful Torreon.

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Team News

Ivan Lopez (knee injury) and Marcel Ruiz (ACL) are expected absentees for Sunday night’s fixture, portion Hugo Gonzalez, Erick Gutierrez (muscle) and Santiago Simon (calf) volition beryllium assessed earlier kickoff.  

Federico Vinas has scored 3 goals for Toluca successful the Apertura and six successful each competitions anterior to this weekend, and the guardant aims to adhd to that tally against the struggling visitors.  

Vinas volition beryllium supported by Helinho, who has scored and assisted 2 goals each earlier gameweek nine, arsenic the midfielder looks for a 5th extremity publication against the second-bottom visitors.  

Santos Laguna person struggled offensively, with lone Ezequiel Bullaude scoring much than erstwhile earlier this weekend, portion his solitary assistance takes him to 3 nonstop involvements.  

On the wounded front, Choco Lozano’s genu contented volition beryllium assessed earlier the lucifer to find his fitness, portion Bruno Amione (knee) and Lucas Di Yorio (leg) are sidelined.

Toluca imaginable starting lineup:

Garcia; Barbosa, Bruno Mendez, Pereira, Del Villar; Romero, Castro; Angulo, Vinas, Gallardo; Paulinho

Santos Laguna imaginable starting lineup:

Acevedo; Pardo, Sanchez, Orona; Cuevas, Lopez, Villalba, Gonzalez; Palacios, Bullaude, Aguirre

We say: Toluca 3-1 Santos Laguna

Santos Laguna person been competitory successful 3 of their 4 distant losses, indicating they are improbable to beryllium embarrassed astatine La Bombonera.  

Nonetheless, the Red Devils person acold excessively overmuch goalscoring imaginable to overpower the out-of-form visitors, who are expected to succumb to a 5th consecutive distant nonaccomplishment against Toluca.

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