Round two of the Primera Division campaign and the squads have taken their learnings from the first game. Here's the ultimate Alajuelense - Guanacasteca preview:
It's no vacation for neither Alajuelense nor Guanacasteca as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Alajuelense form and stats
The season before, Alajuelense's league statistics were 12 wins, 5 draws and 5 losses, leading to 2nd spot in the Primera Division. During these 22 matches they scored 42 goals and conceded 24. Appearing as the home team in the last season Alajuelense produced 7-3-1 (win-draw-lost) with 23 goals and 10 conceded. Alajuelense have collected 3 points from their Primera Division home games so far after 1-0-0.
Alajuelense's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Santos de Guápiles. The home side are looking to build on that result. At last, a league win after three games without.
In the match before that, Alajuelense hosted Cartaginés (after extra-time) and drew the game 1-1.Alajuelense are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 11 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 9, drew 2 and lost 0.
Alajuelense has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Guanacasteca form and stats
Let's have a look at how Guanacasteca performed last season in the Primera Division: They landed a 10th position in the league table after playing out 6 victories, 6 draws and 10 defeats. In total they scored 21 and conceded 35 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 1 - drew 5 and lost 5 with 10/22 goals scored/conceded.
Guanacasteca are looking to quickly end their 287 minutes long goal drought in the Primera Division.
Guanacasteca failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Herediano (placed 3rd) that ended with defeat 0-2.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Guadalupe that ended 0-0.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Guanacasteca played away with similar odds. This revealed 5 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 4 times.
Head 2 Head
Previous four meetings involving these sides: Alajuelense won four, Guanacasteca were winners in zero and we saw zero draws. four games with more than 2,5 goals, zero matches with two goals or less. The games between these sides have had a tendency to be hostile, having seen 2 red cards from the last four encounters.Top Goalscorers
  A. López Rodríguez 1 goals |  F. Góndola 1 goals |
Alajuelense missing players
Guanacasteca missing players
| Alajuelense | Guanacasteca | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 10 | 10 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | 27 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| 10 | 10 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6 | 6 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Alajuelense | Last season | Guanacasteca | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 54 | 27 | Played | P | 22 | 44 | ||
| 27 | 17 | Won | W | 2 | 11 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Drew | D | 10 | 13 | ||
| 14 | 3 | Lost | L | 10 | 20 | ||
| 88 | 48 | Scored | S | 20 | 44 | ||
| 53 | 21 | Conceded | C | 44 | 71 | ||
| 93% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 93% | ||
| 72% | 63% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 86% | 77% | ||
| 52% | 44% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 59% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 45% | 30% | ||
| 15% | 19% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 9% | ||
| 48% | 44% | BTTS | BTTS | 64% | 57% | ||
| 39% | 48% | Clean Sheets | C S | 14% | 20% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 32% | 30% | ||
| 5.6 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 4.4 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.5 | 6.3 | ||
| 2.2 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.5 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Red cards | R C | 6 | 8 | ||
| 12.5 | 15.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.5 | 9.2 | ||
| 4.7 | 6.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.1 | 3.5 | ||
| 36% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 29% | ||
| 9.8 | 9.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.5 | 11.5 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.4 | 4.6 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Puntarenas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Alajuelense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | Herediano | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Sporting San José | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Guadalupe | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 6 | Guanacasteca | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
