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Steffen Schmidt - July 27, 2023
Guadalajara vs Cincinnati
Leagues Cup
Date: 28 July 2023, Friday
Kick-off at 01:00 UK / 02:00 CET
Venue: TQL Stadium (Cincinnati).
Guadalajara and Cincinnati will lock horns in a very exciting Leagues Cup clash on Thursday evening at TQL Stadium.
The two teams sit at the very top of their respective domestic leagues at the moment and they’ve both shown impressive attacking displays of late, meaning we should be in for some fireworks when they come across each other.
Guadalajara got off to a perfect start to the new season in the top flight of Mexican football, winning all three inaugural Apertura affairs with seven goals scored in the process.
They have backed up such a brilliant start with a 2-0 win over Spanish La Liga outfit Athletic Bilbao in a friendly played almost two weeks ago.
Head coach Veljko Paunovic (the former Chicago Fire manager) can be thrilled with his team’s attacking form.
We have plenty of reasons to expect the Mexicans to continue their scintillating run of results here against Cincinnati who have been leaky at the back in recent outings.
Cincy allowed three goals in a draw against Sporting Kansas City at the start of the 2023 Leagues Cup. They bagged the super late equalizer through Luciano Acosta in the ninth minute of added time on Sunday before beating the rivals on penalties on the occasion.
The “nominal visitors” (although they play this match in front of the home crowd at TQL Stadium) are the best team in MLS at the moment with 15 wins, 6 draws, and just 2 defeats in 23 outings so far in the season.
Cincinnati play extremely attacking-minded football as we have seen the Over 2.5 goals FT & Both Teams To Score pick landing in each of the last five games they played across competitions.
Knowing how good Guadalajara have been in the final third lately, we just have to back the Mexicans to win or draw at the odds of 1.72.
