Pumas UNAM vs Necaxa betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Liga MX match on January 12th, 2025

Pumas UNAM and Necaxa will on Sunday, January 12th, 2025 play in a Liga MX football game in Mexico, check the Pumas UNAM vs Necaxa betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Where to follow the live game

See everything about the match live on Betarena, including statistics, events, odds, and everything that can help with your sports betting.

Stadium and City where Pumas UNAM vs Necaxa will occur

The game will be played in the Estadio Olímpico Universitario de Colima stadium, in the city of Colima, with a capacity for 20000 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

Introduction to the Pumas UNAM vs Necaxa betting tip 2024/2025

Pumas UNAM arrives from a victory in the last match they played (2025). The contest against Atlante, valid for the Club Friendlies 3, ended with a score of 0-1 in favor of the team.

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a draw in the last round. In a dispute valid for Liga MX, Necaxa, who used a 3-4-2-1 formation, faced the Atlas team with a final score of 0-0.

The last time these teams met was for a Liga MX match, on 14-09-2024, referring to the 2024/2025 season, which ended with a victory of the Necaxa team by 2-0.

Necaxa was in 11th place in the Liga MX while Pumas UNAM was in 10th place, the last time these teams faced each other. Necaxa team entered the field with the 4-2-3-1 formation, the same tactic Pumas UNAM used in the match.

The previous encounter between these teams saw them fighting hard to stay ahead.

Pumas UNAM

With the home advantage in their favor, the team will strive to accumulate the maximum number of points at the start of the championship. Led by coach Gustavo Alberto Lema, the team will approach the match with a single-minded focus on securing victory. The team's attacking tactics may result in an unusual number of corner kicks, making this market one to keep an eye on.

Necaxa

Despite playing away from home in this encounter, Necaxa will strive to secure a tie in the match and prevent a substantial point deficit early in the competition. With this objective in mind, it is expected that Nicolás Larcamón's team will adopt a more defensive approach, which may lead to a low number of goals conceded or a high number of cards being shown during the game.

Bet suggestions for this game:

As we are at the beginning of the competition, there is still little data to be studied, that allows suggestions for good bets. However, it is important to note that, usually, in the first games of a tournament, the matches have goals in the first half. The teams are still getting familiar, and there is no interest in maintaining any specific result due to the leaderboard.

Corners market betting suggestions

Although the sample is still small, and therefore less accurate, due to the tournament being in the initial rounds, it is already possible to have an average of corners won by these teams. Adding the number of corner shots of these two teams, we reach an average of 5.12 per game.

Cards market betting suggestions

It is also challenging to get a precise average about the number of cards that the teams receive during the matches; however, until now, Pumas UNAM has received 34 yellow cards and no red cards in 17 matches played. At the same time, Necaxa was cautioned with yellow cards in 30 opportunities and red 1 time in 17 games.

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