Necaxa vs Santos Laguna — Liga MX 2026
Match Prediction
Statistical Prediction
Based on goals from last 137+ matches
Necaxa47%
Santos Laguna28%✓ Correct in 50 of 100 matches — 5 more than always backing the home side
The model picks a winner (home or away) for each finished match using only pre-kickoff data, then checks it against the real result: 50.3% correct across 577,253 matches, vs 44.6% for always backing the home side.
Home picks 50.6% correct · Away picks 49.3% correct
Football matches only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Expected goals in this match
What is xG?
Every shot is scored 0–1 by how likely it is to be a goal from that spot — a chance in the middle of the box ≈ 0.4, a long shot from a tight angle ≈ 0.03, a penalty ≈ 0.76. Add them up over a match and that is the xG.
The scoreline can lie: you can win 1-0 on a fluke while creating half the chances. xG shows who was really closer to scoring — and over a season it predicts results better than goals alone.
Necaxa creates 35% more chances
Season form · 137 home / 142 away
creates per match
allows per match
finishing
Total goals
- Over53
- Under47
3+ goals likely
Both teams score
- Yes56
- No44
Both teams likely to score
Score probability
Probability of each scoreline, %
Necaxa ↓
Most likely 1–1 (12%) · grid covers 97% of scorelines
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Combos
Model probabilities, not odds. For information only.
How is this calculated?
Every number below comes from this match — nothing is made up.
Recent form of each side
Necaxa at home — creates 1.36, concedes 1.30 · 137 matches
Santos Laguna away — creates 1.10, concedes 1.88 · 142 matches
⚑ Home and away form are counted separately — the home-field edge is already baked into these numbers.
Expected goals for this match
Necaxa attack 1.36 + Santos Laguna defence 1.88 → ÷2 → 1.62
Santos Laguna attack 1.10 + Necaxa defence 1.30 → ÷2 → 1.20
Each side's attack is blended with the other's defence, then averaged.
Chance of every scoreline
From those two numbers a Poisson distribution gives the probability of each exact score — the grid shown above.
The answer to "why 47%?"
Necaxa at 47% is simply the biggest of the three — that is the pick.
What the model can't see
It reads only the stats of recent matches. It knows nothing about:
- injuries & suspensions
- the matchday lineup
- motivation — cup, relegation, a title race
- weather & pitch condition
- in-game coaching decisions
So 47% does not mean "Necaxa will win" — it means "on the available stats, this is the most likely result."
Statistical model based on expected goals (xG). For informational purposes only.
Player of the match
Match Events
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P = Played · W = Won · D = Drawn · L = Lost · GF = Goals for · GA = Goals against · GD = Goal difference · Pts = Points
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Statistics
Necaxa host Santos Laguna on Saturday, 22 August 2020 at 00:30. The match is part of the Liga MX 2026/2027 season.
Liga MX: Necaxa 2–1 Santos Laguna
Necaxa beat Santos Laguna 2-1 in Liga MX on August 22, 2020.
Goals: Dória (35'), C. Baeza (61'), Unai Bilbao (66').
Necaxa controlled possession (54%) and registered 15 shots to 13.
The match was played at Estadio Victoria de Aguascalientes in Aguascalientes.