Liga MX, Apertura
CF Atlante – Santos Laguna match report
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Santos Laguna kept a clean sheet in a 2-0 win over CF Atlante in Liga MX, Apertura. It was 0-0 at half-time. Player of the match: Esteban Lozano of Santos Laguna, with a ScoreMondo rating of 7.6. The match was played on Saturday, 7 November 2026 at Estadio Banorte in Mexico City (matchday 16).
How the match unfolded
Aarón Quirós saw a straight red card in the 15th minute, leaving CF Atlante short-handed. The officials disallowed a Santos Laguna goal on 17 minutes. Half-time: 0-0 between CF Atlante and Santos Laguna.
Tahiel Jiménez opened the scoring for Santos Laguna after 67 minutes, set up by Ezequiel Bullaude. Santos Laguna extended their lead to 2-0 in the 77th minute through Esteban Lozano, set up by Mauricio Cuevas.
Match statistics
On target it was 3-4, from 14 and 10 attempts respectively. CF Atlante led on expected goals, 1.55 to 1.15. Corners finished 3-6. The referee showed 2 yellow cards, 0 to CF Atlante and 2 to Santos Laguna, and a red. Dangerous attacks: 62 for Santos Laguna, 42 for CF Atlante. CF Atlante committed 12 fouls to Santos Laguna's 13, and the offside count read 1-4.
Santos Laguna's yellow cards went to Felipe Sanchez in the 42nd minute and Aldo López in the 73rd minute.
The players
The best ScoreMondo ratings after the player of the match went to Mauricio Cuevas (Santos Laguna, 7.2), Tahiel Jiménez (Santos Laguna, 7.1) and Ezequiel Bullaude (Santos Laguna, 7.0). From the CF Atlante bench came Diogo Bagüí on 34 minutes, José González on 77 minutes, Luis Puente on 85 minutes and Maximiliano Garcia on 85 minutes. Santos Laguna made 5 changes: Tahiel Jiménez for Jonathan Pérez (45'), Kevin Palacios for Eduardo Aguirre (57'), Aldo López for Francisco Villalba (63') and Javier Güemez for Facundo Cáseres (63').
How they came into it
Before kick-off CF Atlante were 16th on 14 points and Santos Laguna 8th on 22 points. CF Atlante came into the match with 1 win and 4 defeats from their last 5 matches. Chivas Guadalajara beat CF Atlante 4-2 last time out. Before kick-off, Santos Laguna's last 5 matches had brought 4 wins and 1 defeat. Last time out, Santos Laguna beat Club Necaxa 1-0 at home. CF Atlante and Santos Laguna have met 9 times in our records: 1 win for CF Atlante and 8 for Santos Laguna. The last meeting, in 2014, went 4-3 to Santos Laguna. Those 9 games produced 34 goals, an average of 3.8 per match. Marco Antonio Ortiz Nava was the referee, averaging 4.7 yellow cards per match across 22 matches in our records.
The bigger picture
CF Atlante remain 16th, now with 14 points. Santos Laguna climb from 8th to 6th on 25 points. Santos Laguna have now scored in 9 consecutive matches. Santos Laguna beat CF Atlante for the first time since 2014.
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