It's still early in the Liga de Ascenso season, but we are learning more and more about the teams. Here is the Juventud Escazuceña - Sporting San José preview!
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.
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Juventud Escazuceña form and stats
When playing at home in the Liga de Ascenso, Juventud Escazuceña, who have the most clean sheets (6) at home in Liga de Ascenso, have managed 1 win, 0 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 1 games.
Juventud Escazuceña enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Puerto Golfito's place. The match ended 1-0. Ahead of that match, Juventud Escazuceña won a home game hosting Turrialba (2-1).
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Juventud Escazuceña have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won three times, drawn one and lost two.
At Estadio de Piedades, Juventud Escazuceña has the goal stats of 2-1 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.
Sporting San José form and stats
Four points from two away games for Sporting San José, meaning one draw and one victory in the Liga de Ascenso so far.
Before that, Sporting San José travelled to Santa Ana and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.
Sporting San José are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, zero draws and two defeats. From a total of two matches.
It's early days yet, but Sporting San José has scored 4 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Juventud Escazuceña - Sporting San José 0-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: one win for Juventud Escazuceña, three draws and six wins for Sporting San José. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Juventud Escazuceña missing players
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| Juventud Escazuceña | Sporting San José | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 13 | 26 |
| 13 | 8 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | 16 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 42 | 20 | 2 | Scored | S | 1 | 18 | 48 |
| 27 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 17 | 29 |
| 96% | 91% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 96% |
| 87% | 82% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 69% | 81% |
| 57% | 36% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 46% | 65% |
| 39% | 27% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 23% | 31% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 15% | 12% |
| 65% | 36% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 62% | 73% |
| 30% | 55% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 15% | 15% |
| 9% | 18% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 31% | 15% |
| 6 | 7 | 5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.5 | 4.4 |
| 4.4 | 4 | 7 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4.1 | 3.7 |
| 3.3 | 3.4 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 2.3 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 190 | 90 | 2 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 98 | 201 |
| 68 | 33 | 2 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 33 | 74 |
| 62% | 61% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 55% | 62% |
- Juventud Escazuceña has the most clean sheets (6) at home
- Juventud Escazuceña have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Sporting San José has the most matches over the total-line (16)
- Sporting San José has the most scored goals (8)
- Sporting San José has the most scored goals in the second half (27)
- Sporting San José has the the best goal difference (+2) away
- Sporting San José have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Sporting San José is in the best form (4-1-1)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sporting San José | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | Juventud Escazuceña | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Consultants Moravia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | Turrialba | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | Puerto Golfito | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | Puma Generalena | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 7 | CS Uruguay de Coronado | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 2 |
| 8 | Santa Ana | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 1 |
| 9 | Curridabat | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 1 |