Monterrey vs FC Cincinnati Prediction: Monterrey are too confident to loose.

Monterrey are one step away from booking their place in the Quarter Final of the CONCACAF Champions League. They defeated FC Cincinnati 1-0 in the first leg and although they have the advantage, they will be mistaken to drop their guards down ahead of the return leg.

For FC Cincinnati they are going to come into this game guns blazing. They are just behind on the aggregate and there's still 90 minutes to decide who makes it to the next round.

Monterrey

Monterrey has one job ahead of the CONCACAF Champions League and that is to protect the 1 goal lead. Brandon Vazquez scored the important goal for Monterrey in the 24th minute and that was enough to give Monterrey the advantage. Their stats were not bad for a team playing away from home and it was a fair result for their efforts. They had 44% possession, 5 shots on target and they created 1 big chance. Esteban Andrada also made 4 crucial saves in the game to keep the clean sheet.

Monterrey's manager Fernando Ortiz will be focused on protecting the narrow advantage and that might call for a change to the setup of the team in the second leg. 

FC Cincinnati

Cincinnati has 90 minutes to decide their fate in the CONCACAF Champions League. They were a bit unlucky to lose the first leg by a narrow 1-0 scoreline as they were clearly the better team according to stats. According to stats they had 56% possession, 4 shots on target and 6 corner kicks. They also created 3 big chances but they failed to convert any of them.

FC Cincinnati are coming off a goalless draw in their last game against DC United and that doesn't look good for them ahead of this fixture.

FC Cincinnati needs to score goals if they intend to progress to the next stage, so we expect them to line up in an attacking formation. Pat Noonan deployed the 3-4-1-2 formation against DC United. Although it didn't yield the results, FC Cincinnati played really well in that game. So it's possible he will apply the same pattern in the game against Monterrey.

Head go Head

Monterrey and FC Cincinnati have played only 1 game against each other. Monterrey won the game 1-0.

Analysis and Predictions

Monterrey are very strong at the moment and it will be difficult for them to throw away the 1-goal lead. That's not to say FC Cincinnati are to be ruled out. If FC Cincinnati hopes to get, they should be ready to concede too.

Monterrey won their last 3 games and they are unbeaten in their last 17 games in all competitions. Monterrey scored first in 4 of their last 5 games.

5 of the last 6 games of FC Cincinnati ended with more than 10.5 corners and 6 of the last 8 games of Monterrey ended with less than 10.5 corners.

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