Both Cartaginés and Alajuelense are itching for points in this game, even with the guesting team holding a 9 point advantage in the league table.
- Cartaginés have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Primera Division
- Alajuelense have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Cartaginés and Alajuelense.
Cartaginés form and stats
3 victories, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Cartaginés have to build on here at Estadio José Rafael Fello Meza in the Primera Division.
Cartaginés drew their last game, also a home match. Santos de Guápiles was the opponent, 1-1 the score. Campanioni was able to secure the draw 1-1 in the game against Santos de Guápiles after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today?
Prior to that, an away loss at Sporting San Jose.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Cartaginés have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 9 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 1 and lost 5.
Take note: 13 of the latest 14 league games from these players have had goals from both sides.
The manager Mora will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Guanacasteca in only four days.
Cartaginés have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio José Rafael Fello Meza with 12 goals in 7 league matches. Cartaginés have conceded 11 from these games. When Cartaginés hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Pérez Zeledón), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.
Alajuelense form and stats
2 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of Alajuelense playing as the away team in the Primera Division this season. Alajuelense has drawn their two previous away games.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Alajuelense goalkeeper Leonel Gerardo Moreira Ledezma is eager to challenge this, with his 290 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Alajuelense has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to San Carlos for a 0-0 draw.
Before that, Alajuelense secured a home win against Pérez Zeledón with the score 1-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 7 similar matches played by Alajuelense in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Alajuelense, 4 draws and 1 defeat.
After this away game Alajuelense return home for a Primera Division game against Grecia. That game is only four sleeps after this.
The visiting Alajuelense have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 8 goals from 7 games. Alajuelense have conceded 9 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Cartaginés have avoided a loss in the last 4 games (1-3-0) facing Alajuelense.Top Goalscorers
  D. Rodriguez 3 goals | A. Suarez Zuñiga 2 goals |
Cartaginés missing players
Alajuelense missing players
| Cartaginés | Alajuelense | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 7 | 14 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 23 | 12 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 8 | 20 |
| 24 | 11 | 5 | Conceded | C | 0 | 9 | 14 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 71% | 86% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 71% | 64% |
| 71% | 86% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 71% | 57% |
| 29% | 29% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 29% | 29% |
| 14% | 14% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 93% | 86% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 57% | 50% |
| 7% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 29% | 36% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 43% | 29% |
| 4.8 | 5.6 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.9 | 5.8 |
| 4.4 | 3.3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4 | 3.9 |
| 3 | 3 | 4.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 11.6 | 15 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 9.9 | 13.4 |
| 4.7 | 7.4 | 7.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.6 | 4.8 |
| 35% | 23% | 13% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 32% | 30% |
| 10.9 | 11.6 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 7.3 | 8.9 |
| 3.7 | 4 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.4 | 3.6 |
- Alajuelense have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- All of Cartaginés's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cartaginés have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cartaginés have scored in all their matches so far.
- Cartaginés have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Primera Division
- Cartaginés haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Deportivo Saprissa | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 30 |
| 2 | Puntarenas | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 22 |
| 3 | Grecia | 15 | 7 | 0 | 8 | 25 | 31 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 16 | -6 | 21 |
| 4 | San Carlos | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -3 | 19 |
| 5 | Cartaginés | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | -1 | 16 |
| 6 | Pérez Zeledón | 14 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 24 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -7 | 15 |
