The home side, Santos de Guápiles, should be expected winners in this game, but Sporting San José have displayed both talent and spirit. Read more about the game!
- Santos de Guápiles have the most scored goals (45) in Primera Division
- Sporting San José have the most conceded goals (26) away in Primera Division
It's no vacation for neither Santos de Guápiles nor Sporting San José 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.
Santos de Guápiles form and stats
Santos de Guápiles have played 11 Primera Division games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 6-3-2 (wins-draws-losses). Two home wins in a row for Guápiles bring valid hopes of a third.
Santos de Guápiles are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 215 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Salas).
Santos de Guápiles's last game was hosting Sporting San José and winning 2-1.
A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at San Carlos.This is expected to be a close game, with Santos de Guápiles perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Santos de Guápiles as a small favourite), we find ten games. Guápiles has won four of these, drawn four and lost two.
Santos de Guápiles can score goals in their home matches. After 11 league matches they have found the net 25 times. Santos de Guápiles have conceded 18 from these games.
Sporting San José form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sporting San José so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 1-3-7 (win-draw-lose).
Two away games in a row for Sporting San José, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Santos de Guápiles.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Deportivo Saprissa.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found twelve similar matches played by Sporting San José in our archives, and the results are: five wins for José, two draws and five defeats.
Sporting San José are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 11 games (in the league). Many of these goals have come late in the matches; more than 70 percent (13 goals) after the 60th minute. For José, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
The records show that this isn''t the first time these sides get together this season, as the fixture list show this recent match: Santos de Guápiles - Sporting San José 5-1. Head-2-head stats last five meetings: three - zero - two (Guápiles wins - draws - Sporting San José wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less. The games between these teams have had a tendency to be "violent", having seen 3 sending-offs from the last five encounters.Top Goalscorers
  L. Paradela 7 goals | E. Méndez James 6 goals | D. López Araya 5 goals |
Santos de Guápiles missing players
Sporting San José missing players
| Santos de Guápiles | Sporting San José | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 34 | 17 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 16 | 32 |
| 14 | 9 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 13 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 10 | 13 |
| 56 | 33 | 5 | Scored | S | 5 | 16 | 42 |
| 51 | 25 | 7 | Conceded | C | 11 | 32 | 48 |
| 97% | 94% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 97% |
| 79% | 82% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 69% | 78% |
| 65% | 76% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 56% | 56% |
| 38% | 47% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 38% | 28% |
| 26% | 29% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 19% | 12% |
| 68% | 76% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 56% | 56% |
| 12% | 18% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 12% | 19% |
| 24% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 31% | 28% |
| 4.3 | 4.7 | 3.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.6 | 5.1 |
| 4.2 | 3.6 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.8 | 4.1 | 3.6 |
| 3 | 2.9 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 10.5 | 11.9 | 11.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.8 | 8.9 | 8.6 |
| 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| 46% | 46% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 26% | 41% |
| 11.4 | 11.3 | 11.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.5 | 10.3 | 9.2 |
| 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.4 | 3.3 |
- Santos de Guápiles have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Santos de Guápiles have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sporting San José have scored away.
- Santos de Guápiles have the fewest clean sheets (4) in Primera Division
- Santos de Guápiles have the most conceded goals in the first half (25) in Primera Division
- Santos de Guápiles have the most matches over the total-line (16) in Primera Division
- Santos de Guápiles have the most points from losing position (18) in Primera Division
- Santos de Guápiles have the most scored goals (45) in Primera Division
- Sporting San José have the most conceded goals (26) away in Primera Division
- Sporting San José have the the worst goal difference (-14) away in Primera Division
- Sporting San José 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 | Herediano | 22 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 35 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 18 | 45 |
| 2 | Alajuelense | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 42 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 23 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 18 | 41 |
| 3 | Santos de Guápiles | 22 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 45 | 34 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 16 | 11 | 36 |
| 4 | Deportivo Saprissa | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 40 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 18 | 34 |
| 5 | Cartagines | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 30 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 2 | 34 |
| 6 | Grecia | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 29 | 26 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 29 |
| 7 | Sporting San José | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 30 | 37 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 26 | -7 | 27 |
| 8 | San Carlos | 22 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 28 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 19 | -6 | 24 |
| 9 | Perez Zeledon | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 20 | -8 | 24 |
| 10 | Guanacasteca | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 35 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 22 | -14 | 24 |
| 11 | Guadalupe | 22 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 34 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -16 | 21 |
| 12 | ADR Jicaral | 22 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 38 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 19 | -19 | 20 |
