Santa Ana battle against Sporting San José for glory and sporting success.
It's no vacation for neither Santa Ana 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.
Santa Ana form and stats
Three consecutive losses here at Estadio de Piedades is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match. Santa Ana has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager and the players.
Santa Ana lost their last game at Puerto Golfito (placed 2nd) after a 2-4 scoreline. Prior to that, an away loss at Juventud Escazucena.
A goal frenzy last time out for Santa Ana, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Puerto Golfito. Fun stuff to watch!
Santa Ana are traveling soon after this match as the Liga de Ascenso match at Consultants Moravia awaits in four days.
Last season, Santa Ana's league statistics were 11 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses, resulting in a 1st position in the Liga de Ascenso. Over these 16 matches they scored 31 goals and conceded 13. Playing at home last season Santa Ana managed 8-0-0 (win-draw-lost) with 21 goals and 4 conceded.
Sporting San José form and stats
Playing away, Sporting San José have won 1 game, drawn 0 and suffered 0 defeats in the Liga de Ascenso this season.
The supporters enjoyed Sporting San José's previous game versus Puma Generaleña (placed 7th), a Liga de Ascenso 2-1 win played at home. Before that one, a nice away victory 3-1 at Curridabat.
A new game in only four days for Sporting San José, the Liga de Ascenso home match versus CS Uruguay de Coronado. Busy days.
It's early days yet, but Sporting San José has scored 3 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Santa Ana - Sporting San José 1-2 played earlier this season. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's 0 Santa Ana victories, 0 draws and 2 Sporting San José wins. 2 of these games ended with three goals or more, 0 matches with two goals or less.Santa Ana missing players
Sporting San José missing players
| Santa Ana | Sporting San José | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 24 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 4 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 24 | 9 | 1 | Scored | S | 9 | 17 | 45 |
| 35 | 15 | 1 | Conceded | C | 5 | 16 | 27 |
| 94% | 88% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | 96% |
| 94% | 88% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 79% |
| 71% | 62% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 67% |
| 41% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 25% | 33% |
| 24% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 17% | 12% |
| 76% | 75% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 58% | 71% |
| 6% | 12% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 17% | 17% |
| 24% | 25% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 33% | 17% |
| 5.1 | 6.9 | 5.5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 2.7 | 3.5 | 4.4 |
| 4.3 | 4 | 4 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.1 | 3.7 |
| 2.3 | 2.5 | 1.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 1.8 | 2.3 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 139 | 92 | 12 | Total Shots | T S | 20 | 87 | 190 |
| 48 | 34 | 1 | Shots on Target | S O | 9 | 31 | 72 |
| 35% | 26% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 55% | 62% |
- Santa Ana have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Sporting San José have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Puerto Golfito | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Turrialba | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Consultants Moravia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
| 5 | CS Uruguay de Coronado | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Juventud Escazucena | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Puma Generaleña | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 8 | Santa Ana | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 0 |
| 9 | Curridabat | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 0 |