Guadalajara begins its quest for star number 13 this Thursday at 9:05 p.m., when it hosts Pumas in the first leg of the Quarter-Finals of the Apertura 2023 at the Akron Stadium, so today more than ever we need the team and fans to go together in search of this great objective.
How will they get to the start of the Liguilla?
- El Rebaño and UNAM met on Matchday 17. On that day, the university team won by the slimmest of margins.
- Chivas finished in fifth place overall with 27 points, while UNAM finished in fourth place with 28 points.
What's new in the squads with respect to the last match?
CHIVAS
- After not being considered for the match on matchday 17 to avoid a possible suspension for accumulation of yellow cards, Roberto Alvarado and Gilberto Sepúlveda will be a different story.
PUMAS
- José Caicedo is the only player who is in doubt for this Liguilla series.
Who will be the referees?
- Referee: Fernando Hernández Gómez
- Assistant 1: José Martínez Chavarría
- Assistant 2: Manuel Martínez Sánchez
- Fourth official: Oscar Macías Romo
- VAR: Jorge Antonio Pérez Durán and Iván Antonio López Sánchez
Did you know that..?
- Chivas has four consecutive wins against Pumas at the Akron.
- El Rebaño has 5 wins, 3 draws and only 1 loss in the last 9 matches against UNAM.
- Guadalajara has only lost 1 of 46 home games against the team from the Capital. During that period, they kept a clean sheet on 21 occasions.
- The last time Pumas won at the Akron was in AP18.
- Should Chivas win on Thursday, they would be matching a streak they achieved between December 1995 and February 1999. On that occasion, they won five in a row at home against the Universitarios.
- El Rebaño has won 4 of its last 6 matches in the Apertura 2023.
- Pumas has played 9 away games in the current tournament, losing 4, drawing 2 and winning 3.
- Veljko Paunovic's team has played 9 home matches in the AP23. The record shows that the Red-Whites won 5, drew 1 and lost 3.
- The Red and White's top scorer in the tournament was Roberto Alvarado, who accumulated 6 goals.
- Fernando Beltrán is the Chivas player so far in the tournament with the most ball recoveries (100), the most attempted passes (712), the most successful passes (608), the most passes to the last third of the field (253) and the most minutes played (1434).
