Match details. Liga Primera Premier, Regular Season - 10. Kick-off is Sat 31 Oct, 03:30 Lagos time.
What's at stake. Tigres de Alica FC are 6th on 14 points after 9 games, 1 point behind Reboceros La Piedad, level on points with Jaguares de Chiapas. A win would take them above Reboceros La Piedad. Tapachula Soconusco FC are 15th on 6 points after 8 games, 1 point behind Cordobés, 2 points clear of H2O Purepechas. A win would take them above Cordobés.
Form. Tigres de Alica FC have won five, drawn two and lost three of their last ten, 1.7 points a game. Their last five, newest first: L W L W D. Tapachula Soconusco FC have won two, drawn one and lost seven of their last ten, 0.7 points a game. Their last five, newest first: W L L L L.
The numbers. Tigres de Alica FC score two and concede 0.7 a game in their last six at home, with two clean sheets. Tigres de Alica FC average 6.9 shots (2.2 on target), 5.9 corners and 1.5 cards a game. Tapachula Soconusco FC score 0.9 and concede 2.2 a game over their last ten, with two clean sheets and three games without a goal. Tapachula Soconusco FC average 8.7 shots (3.3 on target), 4.0 corners and 2.9 cards a game.
Where it pulls both ways. The prices and the records disagree: the odds board makes it 86% against the records' 65%.
The read. No firm call: Tigres de Alica FC are the better side, but not at this price. An open game. Their goals for and against make Tigres de Alica FC the likelier winners; Tigres de Alica FC are the stronger side on form and the table; both teams' records favour Tigres de Alica FC. Their goals for and against point to an open game. Their records put over 2.5 goals at 54%.
The bets. No bet yet: nothing I'd back is priced yet. Predicted score: Tigres de Alica FC 2-1 Tapachula Soconusco FC (10% chance).
The agreed story. No side to back (Tigres de Alica FC the favourite), an open game.
The league run. Tigres de Alica FC: up and down in the league (L W L W D). Tapachula Soconusco FC: up and down in the league (W L L L L). Not confident in Tigres de Alica FC: two defeats in their last five league games to sides outside the top third.
So. A close match: the safest pick that fits.
Every score's chance from both teams' checked games, never cut or rescaled. The lit square is the likeliest score that fits the read (an open game).