On Feb 4th, Necaxa hosts Tijuana at Estadio Victoria De Aguascalientes in a meeting of these two evenly matched Liga MX teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 21 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. 14th placed Necaxa is fresh off their 1-2 loss against Pachuca. Javier López struck first for Pachuca in the 42nd minute on a feed from Luis Chavez, then Gustavo Cabral added another in the 79th minute on a penalty kick. Necaxa looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 7 of their last 10, while in their last match, 15th placed Tijuana, recorded a 0-0 scoreless draw against Pumas UNAM. Neither Tijuana nor Pumas UNAM could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 20 and 4 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. Tijuana looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 6 points in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, in Estadio Caliente, Tijuana and Necaxa battled to a 1-1 draw. Brian García Carpizo scored the first goal for Necaxa in the 34th minute, then Federico Lertora tied it up for Tijuana in the 5th minute of the first half’s stoppage time on a feed from Ismael Govea squeezing out at least the one point for Tijuana.
Renato Ibarra and Lucas Rodriguez are the top scorers for Tijuana in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.. Facundo Batista has been the most prolific scorer on Necaxa in his last five matches with two goals.