Monterrey 2-3 Cruz Azul — Result, Statistics & Match Review — CONCACAF Champions League, 11 Mar 2026

📅11/03/2026 · 🕒04:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 1-1 2nd Score 0-1
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
35%
3.46
Draw
30%
3.35
Away
35%
1.91
Under/Over 2.5
Under Pick
54%
1.86
Over
46%
1.86
Both Teams to Score
Yes
54%
1.75
No
46%
1.96
Total Goals
0-1
30%
3.11
2-3
41%
1.72
4-5
19%
3.37
6+
10%
13.15
Value flag · 0-1 at 3.11 — our 30% vs market 24.9%. Did not land — edges play out over many matches, not one.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
14%
1/2
6%
1/X
7%
X/1
15%
X/2
15%
X/X
16%
2/1
6%
2/2
14%
2/X
7%
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our Pick
Under 2.5 — 54%
Fair price · no betting value
The bookmaker priced every market fairly — no dependable value at these odds, so skipping is the disciplined play.
Our Pick is our best estimate of the outcome; a value flag is a separate, rarer judgement about the price.
STRENGTH BTTS Yes — pattern-based signals at fair odds; informational, not a sized bet.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
35%
Home Win
25%
+9.4pp
30%
Draw
26%
+4.0pp
35%
Away Win
48%
-13.3pp
54%
Under 2.5
50%
+4.2pp
46%
Over 2.5
50%
-4.2pp
54%
BTTS Yes
53%
+1.1pp
46%
BTTS No
47%
-1.1pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Monterrey EU Bookmakers 29%
Head to Head
AWAY Cruz Azul EU Bookmakers 52%
+0% / +0% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +37% / +37%
–/– Expected GoalsScored / Conceded –/–
/ Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +47% / +3%
47% Ball Possession 53%
13 Total Shots 12
4 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 5
280 · 75% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 327 · 78%
Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 24.0
Crosses 24.0
Yellow Cards 2.0
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Monterrey
1W-1D-4L
AWAY Cruz Azul
0.50 Avg Goals (FT) 1.83
1.09 xG 1.68
54% Ball Possession 46%
12 Total Shots 13
3 Shots on Target 7
6 Corners 3
380 Passes 328
82% Pass Accuracy 80%
20 Box Touches 20
23 Crosses 12
2 Yellow Cards 2
01.03.2026 Monterrey Monterrey 0-2 HT 0-1 Cruz Azul Cruz Azul MEK
26.10.2025 Cruz Azul Cruz Azul 2-0 HT 1-0 Monterrey Monterrey MEK
09.03.2025 Cruz Azul Cruz Azul 1-1 HT 1-1 Monterrey Monterrey MEK
14.07.2024 Monterrey Monterrey 0-4 HT 0-2 Cruz Azul Cruz Azul MEK
20.05.2024 Cruz Azul Cruz Azul 1-2 HT 0-0 Monterrey Monterrey MEK
17.05.2024 Monterrey Monterrey 0-1 HT 0-1 Cruz Azul Cruz Azul MEK
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Monterrey
2-3
AWAY Cruz Azul
0.91 xG 2.32
47% Ball Possession 53%
10 Total Shots 26
5 Shots on Target 7
3 Corners 5
273 Passes 323
77% Pass Accuracy 81%
25 Box Touches 29
16 Crosses 21
3 Yellow Cards 2
POST-MATCH Monterrey vs Cruz Azul
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Cruz Azul nicked a narrow win over Monterrey 3-2 away from home. It was 2-1 at half-time, meaning the result turned around in the second half. 5 goals made it one of the day's more open games.

We called this one close before kick-off — 35% / 30% / 35% — and on the day Cruz Azul made the difference.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 46% and both teams to score was close to even at 54%.

On the day, Monterrey had 47% of the ball to Cruz Azul's 53%, shots finished 10-26, expected goals 0.91 to 2.32 — an xG gap that size says the one-goal margin undersold Cruz Azul's control.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, Cruz Azul led the recent series with 4 wins, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 0.50 goals for Monterrey and 1.83 for Cruz Azul.

What was the final score of Monterrey vs Cruz Azul?

Monterrey 2-3 Cruz Azul in the CONCACAF Champions League on 11/03/2026. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Monterrey vs Cruz Azul?

Before kick-off our model rated a Monterrey win the most likely single outcome at about 35%, with the full match-result split Monterrey 35%, draw 30%, Cruz Azul 35%. The final score 2-3 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on BTTS Yes — while Under 2.5 went the other way.

◐ Match Result — model had it level (35/30/35) ✗ Under 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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