In this week 8 match on Feb 19th, Atlas and Tigres UANL will play a match in Guadalajara in a meeting of these two extremely mismatched Liga MX teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 27 degrees, which is great football weather. Atlas is fresh off their 0-2 loss against Monterrey. Rogelio Gabriel Funes Mori scored the first goal for Monterrey in the 60th minute, then Gonzalez Gonzalez added another in the 63rd minute In the end, Atlas couldn’t muster any offence and Monterrey ran away with the shutout win. Atlas looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 4 of their last 10, while in their last match, 1st placed Tigres UANL, recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Juárez. Neither Tigres UANL nor Juárez could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 16 and 13 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. With 21 points in their last 10 matches Tigres UANL should be reasonably happy with their performance.
On the 24th of July, Tigres UANL hosted Atlas in their last match together. Tigres UANL was victorious by a score of 2 to 0. Anderson Santamaria Bardales scored the first goal for Tigres UANL on an own goal in the 44th minute, then Andre-Pierre Gignac added another in the 1st minute of the first half’s stoppage time At the end of 90 a dissapointed Atlas couldn’t manage to score, and Tigres UANL took the shutout win.
Gignac has been the most prolific scorer on Tigres UANL in the last 5 matches with 3 goals. Atlas’s most prolific scorer has been Quinones Quinones. The attacker has netted 3 goals over the last five matches.