The Guerreros seek to leave behind the bitter pill of the previous week. They receive this Sunday at the Corona, the Xolos, in action on matchday 11.
The game that will begin sharply at 7:05 p.m. will be directed by the whistler Ismael López Peñuelas.
Santos Laguna accumulates 12 points in the current campaign, the product of three wins, the same number of draws and four losses. The border crossings, for their part, add up to 11 units.
In the Region they have faced each other 11 times, with very even numbers. The albiverdes won 4, tied the same amount, while the visit won three.
In the most recent precedent in Corona, the lagoons thrashed Xolos 4-0 in the Clausura 2022, with goals from Fernando Gorriarán, Leo Suárez and a double from Harold Preciado.
The “Piojo” Herrera as a strategist facing the Warriors since 2002, has 46 directed, with a balance of 16 wins, 15 draws and 14 losses. His only victories as a visitor were in the 2003 Apertura leading Atlante 3-2, 2016 Apertura in his first stage with Xolos 2-1 and finally, in the 2017 Apertura with América, winning tightly 1-0.
Among the elements that have worn both shirts are Fernando Arce, Edgar Castillo, Juan Pablo “Kanú” Santiago, Diego “Pulpo” González, Eryc “La Culebra” Castillo, Jonathan Orozco, Gibrán Lajud, José Juan “Gallo” Vázquez, among others.
The coaches who were on the two benches are Daniel Guzmán, the Argentine Rubén Omar Romano, as well as the Uruguayans Robert Dante Siboldi and Wilson Graniolatti.
The Guerreros goalscorers in the campaign are Preciado with 5, Juan Brunetta with 4, while Javier Correa and Diego Medina each have two. The reinforcement Lucas Nahuel González wears one.
Prior to the match, an award will be given to the Santista homegrown champions with the Mexican Under-17 National Team in the CONCACAF Championship played in Guatemala. They will be Stephano Carrillo, Alex Valencia and Kevin García. The person in charge of the Guerrero Ritual will be the ex-player albiverde José Antonio “La Mona” Olvera.
‘COMPLICATED MATCH’
Defender Hugo Isaac Rodríguez confessed that they had a very strong week of training at TSM.
“It’s very good for us to raise the loads, increase the level of demand, in order to think about performing better in the matches.” And of the match against Xolos, he commented: “It will be a complicated match because Miguel Herrera’s teams always propose and seek to obtain points on any pitch. We have to be aware that, at the Corona Stadium, we must have the greatest concentration to add the three points”.
For the final stretch of the campaign, he explained the feeling of the lagoons “Winning and positive mentality. We have to think big, to place the team in the first places, that this is just a bad step and not a bad tournament.”