Puntarenas have come here for an appealing battle versus the hosts Deportivo Saprissa. Read up on the game with this full Primera Division preview!
- Deportivo Saprissa have not yet lost a game at home.
- Puntarenas have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Deportivo Saprissa's stadium, Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá, has a artifical turf surface. Puntarenas have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Puntarenas when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 3 draws and 1 loss from five matches. They have scored {8 goals} in these games and conceded 8.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Deportivo Saprissa form and stats
Deportivo Saprissa have collected 3 points from their Primera Division home games so far after 1-0-0.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 261 minutes.
Deportivo Saprissa are returning here after visiting Guadalupe and winning with a 1-0 scoreline.
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Guanacasteca in a game that was won 3-0.It should be taken into account that a glance at the 10 latest league fixtures shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored).
Saprissa are traveling soon after this match as the Primera Division match at Santos de Guapiles awaits in three days.
Deportivo Saprissa has scored {3 goals} so far and conceded {0 goals} from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Puntarenas form and stats
0 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses. That’s the product of Puntarenas playing as the away team in the Primera Division this season.
Puntarenas played 1-1 against Santos de Guapiles in their previous match.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus San Carlos that ended 1-1.A quick return to home after this game, as Puntarenas are hosting Pérez Zeledón in the Primera Division only four days away.
Puntarenas have the goal stats of 1-1 (for/against) from 1 business trip in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
Deportivo Saprissa have pulled off a sequence of 6 consecutive matches without defeat (3-3-0) when playing Puntarenas.Deportivo Saprissa and Puntarenas have met already this season: Puntarenas - Deportivo Saprissa 0-1.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Gibbons Hidalgo 8 goals |  J. East 5 goals | L. Paradela 5 goals |
Deportivo Saprissa missing players
Puntarenas missing players
| Deportivo Saprissa | Puntarenas | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 6 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| 16 | 8 | 4 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 38 | 25 | 11 | Scored | S | 5 | 14 | 25 |
| 12 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 14 | 21 |
| 96% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 90% |
| 67% | 92% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 90% | 75% |
| 38% | 42% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 40% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 40% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 33% | 42% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 90% | 65% |
| 58% | 58% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 10% | 25% |
| 6.5 | 7.8 | 8.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.5 | 5.5 |
| 4 | 2.9 | 2.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 5.4 | 4.8 |
| 2.8 | 2.2 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3.5 | 2.9 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| 13.5 | 16.2 | 20.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.5 | 10.4 | 12 |
| 5.2 | 6 | 7.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 4.9 | 3.5 |
| 31% | 35% | 24% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 29% | 36% |
| 7.5 | 5.3 | 5.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9 | 10.3 | 9.1 |
| 2.1 | 1.4 | 1.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.8 | 3.4 |
- Deportivo Saprissa have not yet lost a game at home.
- Deportivo Saprissa have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Deportivo Saprissa have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Deportivo Saprissa have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Deportivo Saprissa have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Deportivo Saprissa haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Puntarenas have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Puntarenas have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Puntarenas haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Alajuelense | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 6 |
| 2 | Deportivo Saprissa | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 3 | Sporting San José | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Cartagines | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Herediano | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Puntarenas | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Guanacasteca | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 1 |
| 8 | San Carlos | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 1 |
| 9 | Santos de Guapiles | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -4 | 1 |
| 10 | Grecia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Pérez Zeledón | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Guadalupe | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 0 |
