📏 Form Guide
Monterrey WWDLWD
Monterrey enter this game following a 2-2 Liga MX (Apertura) stalemate vs Club Tijuana.
In that game, Monterrey had 54% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer for Monterrey was Germán Berterame (45', 57'). Tijuana had 10 shots at goal with 5 on target. Frank Boya (12') and Adonis Preciado (60') scored for Club Tijuana.
Matches with Monterrey have tended to be lively affairs lately with plenty of scoring being a real hallmark. Over their past six games, a grand total of 24 goals have been recorded for both teams combined (at an average of 4 goals per game) with 12 of these belonging to Monterrey.
Going into this game, the form guide shows that Monterrey:
- are unbeaten in the league by Universidad Nacional in their previous 6 games.
- are undefeated in their previous 7 home league matches.
Universidad Nacional WWDLLL 📉
Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of CD Guadalajara in Liga MX (Apertura) competition, Universidad Nacional will be hoping to turn things around here.
In that match, Universidad Nacional had 54% possession and 14 shots at goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Universidad Nacional was Pedro Vite (48'). On the other side, Guadalajara had 11 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Armando González (55') and Daniel Aguirre (90') scored for CD Guadalajara.
Looking at their form, and Universidad Nacional have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 11 goals in all. Defensively, Universidad Nacional have some weaknesses to address. We shall soon see if that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.
Looking at their past form shows that Universidad Nacional:
- are winless against Monterrey when having played them away from home in the previous 11 league games. A very poor run of away results.
- haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.
🤜🤛 Head to head
Checking on their past head to head meetings going back to 04/03/2024 tells us that these fixtures have not been happy ones for Universidad Nacional. They have not managed to come away with any victories at all whereas Monterrey have remained in the ascendancy, beating them in 83 per cent of those matches played.
An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 14 of them from Los Rayados and 4 for Pumas. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 3.
📰 Team News: Monterrey
In our view, Los Rayados may well employ a 4-2-3-1 system with Santiago Mele, Érick Aguirre, V. Andrés Guzmán, Sergio Ramos, Gerardo Arteaga, Jorge Rodriguez, Oliver Torres, Jesus Manuel Corona, Sergio Canales, Lucas Ariel Ocampos and Germán Berterame.
🗞️ Team News: Universidad Nacional
We reckon that Pumas will likely begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation, choosing Keylor Navas, Pablo Bennevendo, Nathan Silva, Ángel Azuaje, Alvaro Angulo, José Caicedo, A. Carrasquilla, Pedro Vite, Alan Medina, Jorge Ruvalcaba and José Juan Macías.
💭 Prediction
Looking at these two teams, we feel that Monterrey certainly have the ability to be able to score a couple against Universidad Nacional, who will be up against it scoring a goal of their own.
We’re tipping a 2-0 winning margin for Monterrey when all’s said and done.
Lucas Pereira, 00:02 19/10/2025