Primera Division match preview: San Carlos against Santos de Guápiles

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Competition: Costa Rica Primera Division
Competition: Sat 20.November
Match begins: 23:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Carlos Ugalde Álvarez (5600 seats)

Primera Division: Two participants in decent shape get together for this fixture. Santos de Guápiles hold a tiny advantage with their 3rd position in the league table?

Insights:
  • Santos de Guápiles have the most conceded goals (30) in Primera Division

1 - 2 - 7 with 8-19. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Santos de Guápiles when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Santos de Guápiles play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.

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San Carlos form and stats

The story so far in the Primera Division for San Carlos at their home stadium (Estadio Carlos Ugalde Álvarez) is 3 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats.

San Carlos enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Guanacasteca's place. The match ended 1-0 with M. Mena scoring. San Carlos made it very difficult for themselves, when J. Aguilar got a red card in the 39th minute. The match was still a draw at this point. But even with this card, San Carlos won the match 1-0! The victory against Guanacasteca came after M. Mena's winning goal. The San Carlos manager D. Sequeira was very happy afterwards with the decision to bring on that player in the 46th minute.

Ahead of that match, Carlos won a home game hosting Sporting San Jose (3-1).

The Carlos fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 9 matches. Carlos have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Santos de Guápiles form and stats

Santos de Guápiles have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Primera Division, after 2-3-4 (9 played).

It might be tough going out on the road again for Guápiles, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-3 versus Forge.

A home win before that, celebrating 3-2 vs Perez Zeledon.

Santos de Guápiles have scored 11 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away games in the league. In the opposite end, Guápiles have conceded 14 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

Santos de Guápiles - Carlos 2-2 was the story when these two contenders last met, some time ago this season. San Carlos-Santos de Guápiles H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Carlos six wins, Santos de Guápiles two wins, two draws. seven of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

San CarlosÁ. Saborío Chacón
Á. Saborío Chacón
8 goals
CarlosJ. Aguilar Bustamante
J. Aguilar Bustamante
7 goals
Santos de GuápilesP. Arboine Carmona
P. Arboine Carmona
4 goals

San Carlos missing players

Santos de Guápiles missing players

San Carlos Santos de Guápiles
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 3 Played P 3 9 19
5 3 1 Won W 1 2 8
9 4 2 Drew D 0 3 6
5 2 0 Lost L 2 4 5
25 11 3 Scored S 5 11 35
24 8 2 Conceded C 6 14 30
84% 78% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
63% 44% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 89%
42% 33% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 56% 74%
42% 33% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 22% 42%
16% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 11% 26%
53% 44% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 78% 84%
32% 33% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 5%
32% 44% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 11%
 
5.2 5.7 5.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 3.8 4.6
6 5.3 7 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.6 4.5
2.9 2.9 2.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4.3 3.6 3.4
4 1 0 Red cards R C 0 3 5
 
9 9.2 12.7 Shots (avg) S ( 11 10.7 12.3
3.9 4.2 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.7 3.3 4.5
34% 29% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 45% 37% 41%
 
9.2 8.4 11.7 Shots against (avg) S A 11.7 14.1 12.7
3.3 3.2 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 5.8 4.9
Key stats in Primera Division this season:
  • Santos de Guápiles have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Santos de Guápiles have the fewest clean sheets (1) in Primera Division
  • Santos de Guápiles have the fewest matches under the total-line (3) in Primera Division
  • Santos de Guápiles have the most conceded goals (30) in Primera Division
  • Santos de Guápiles have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in Primera Division
  • Santos de Guápiles have the most matches over the total-line (13) in Primera Division
  • Santos de Guápiles have the most points from losing position (15) in Primera Division
  • Santos de Guápiles have the most scored goals in the second half (25) in Primera Division
  • Santos de Guápiles have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Santos de Guápiles 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 Herediano 19 11 3 5 26 17 9 6 2 1 12 3 10 5 1 4 14 14 9 36
2 Alajuelense 19 9 5 5 35 24 9 5 3 1 19 10 10 4 2 4 16 14 11 32
3 Santos de Guápiles 19 8 6 5 35 30 10 6 3 1 24 16 9 2 3 4 11 14 5 30
4 Deportivo Saprissa 19 7 7 5 32 20 9 6 2 1 23 7 10 1 5 4 9 13 12 28
5 Cartagines 19 8 4 7 24 24 10 5 2 3 13 8 9 3 2 4 11 16 0 28
6 Sporting San Jose 19 7 6 6 29 29 10 6 3 1 18 9 9 1 3 5 11 20 0 27
7 Grecia 19 7 4 8 26 23 10 5 3 2 18 11 9 2 1 6 8 12 3 25
8 San Carlos 19 5 9 5 25 24 9 3 4 2 11 8 10 2 5 3 14 16 1 24
9 Guadalupe 19 4 8 7 18 28 10 1 5 4 10 15 9 3 3 3 8 13 -10 20
10 Guanacasteca 19 5 5 9 18 28 10 4 1 5 10 13 9 1 4 4 8 15 -10 20
11 ADR Jicaral 19 4 7 8 17 29 9 3 3 3 11 14 10 1 4 5 6 15 -12 19
12 Perez Zeledon 19 4 6 9 17 26 9 3 4 2 10 9 10 1 2 7 7 17 -9 18