It's a fresh beginning in Primera Division - the first match of the season. Read this full article and see how San Carlos and Puntarenas did in their pre-season friendly games!
- Puntarenas have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
San Carlos form and stats
The season before, San Carlos's league stats were 5 wins, 9 draws and 8 losses, producing 9th position in the Primera Division. Over these 22 matches they scored {28 goals} and let in 34. Appearing as the host team in the last season San Carlos generated 3-4-4 (win-draw-lost) with {14 goals} and 15 conceded.
This is expected to be a close game, with San Carlos perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with San Carlos as a small favourite), we find 13 games. San Carlos has won 5 of these, drawn 5 and lost 3.
Puntarenas form and stats
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Puntarenas in our archives, and the results are: 10 wins for Puntarenas, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
Head 2 Head
San Carlos - Puntarenas 2-2 was the result in these squads' last H2H match, played this season. Last ten meetings featuring these participants: San Carlos won four, Puntarenas triumphed in two and we saw four draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with under 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Gibbons Hidalgo 8 goals |  M. Mena Rojas 7 goals | J. Montenegro Vallejo 3 goals |
San Carlos missing players
Puntarenas missing players
| San Carlos | Puntarenas | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 9 | 18 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 19 | 10 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 13 | 23 |
| 23 | 8 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 13 | 19 |
| 94% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 89% |
| 81% | 75% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 72% |
| 62% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 56% | 44% |
| 19% | 12% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 44% | 28% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 62% | 75% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 89% | 61% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 22% |
| 19% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 11% | 28% |
| 4.8 | 5.4 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.7 | 5.5 |
| 5.1 | 4 | 1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.1 | 4.6 |
| 2.9 | 2.8 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3.6 | 2.8 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 9.5 | 7.6 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18 | 10.9 | 12.2 |
| 3.3 | 3.5 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 10 | 5.2 | 3.7 |
| 36% | 36% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 28% | 35% |
| 10.6 | 7.6 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 10.7 | 9.4 |
| 4 | 3.2 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 5 | 3.5 |
- 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Cartaginés | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Deportivo Saprissa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Grecia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Guadalupe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Guanacasteca | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Herediano | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Pérez Zeledón | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Puntarenas | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | San Carlos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Santos de Guápiles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Sporting San José | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
