The visiting Sporting San José side should be favourites in this visit to Santa Ana, as the away team holds a 9 point advantage from their ten league games this season.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Santa Ana and Sporting San José.
Santa Ana form and stats
With 1 Liga de Ascenso win, 3 draws and 2 defeats from their home games, Santa Ana, who have the the worst goal difference (-4) at home in Liga de Ascenso, are certainly not brimming with confidence.
Santa Ana drew their last game, 1-1 away at Puerto Golfito (placed 3rd). Ahead of that match, Santa Ana lost 1-3 at home to Juventud Escazucena.
This is expected to be a close game, with Santa Ana perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Santa Ana as a small favourite), we find two games. Santa Ana has won 1 of these, drawn 1 and lost 0.
Santa Ana aren't scoring a lot here at Estadio de Piedades in the league, with only 5 goals from 6 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 9 goals have been conceded.
Sporting San José form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (20) in Liga de Ascenso, on their Liga de Ascenso travels is 1 win, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
The supporters enjoyed Sporting San José's previous game versus Puma Generaleña (placed 4th), a Liga de Ascenso 3-1 win played at home. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Curridabat at their stadium, the result 5-3.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found two similar matches played by Sporting San José in our archives, and the results are: 0 wins for Sporting San José, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
The travelling fans enjoy Sporting San José's attacking play in away games, having scored 6 goals in 4 league matches away. Sporting San José have conceded 6 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Sporting San José - Santa Ana 4-1 entered in the official records. As for the last one game between these two teams, there's 0 Santa Ana victories, 0 draws and 1 Sporting San José win. 1 of these game 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 | Home vs | Statistics | Stat | Away vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 6 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 6 | 20 |
| 16 | 9 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 89% | 83% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 89% | 83% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 70% |
| 56% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 60% |
| 33% | 17% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 30% |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 20% |
| 78% | 67% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 60% |
| 11% | 17% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 22% | 33% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 4.9 | 6.3 | 2.5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.7 | 4.6 |
| 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 2.3 | 2.7 |
| 2.3 | 2.7 | 4 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2.2 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Santa Ana have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Sporting San José have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Sporting San José have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Sporting San José haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 25-08-19 | | Santa Ana | 1 - 1 | Puma Generaleña |
| 01-09-19 | | Santa Ana | 1 - 1 | Turrialba |
| 08-09-19 | | CS Uruguay de Coronado | 2 - 4 | Santa Ana |
| 15-09-19 | | Santa Ana | 1 - 3 | Juventud Escazucena |
| 25-09-19 | | Puerto Golfito | 1 - 1 | Santa Ana |
| 29-09-19 | | Santa Ana | 21:00 | Sporting San José |
| 06-10-19 | | Consultants Moravia | 00:00 | Santa Ana |
| 13-10-19 | | Santa Ana | - | Curridabat |
| 20-10-19 | | Puma Generaleña | - | Santa Ana |
| 27-10-19 | | Turrialba | - | Santa Ana |
| 31-08-19 | | Sporting San José | 1 - 0 | Puerto Golfito |
| 07-09-19 | | Sporting San José | 3 - 0 | Turrialba |
| 14-09-19 | | Consultants Moravia | 1 - 1 | Sporting San José |
| 21-09-19 | | Curridabat | 3 - 5 | Sporting San José |
| 25-09-19 | | Sporting San José | 3 - 1 | Puma Generaleña |
| 29-09-19 | | Santa Ana | 21:00 | Sporting San José |
| 06-10-19 | | Sporting San José | 00:00 | CS Uruguay de Coronado |
| 13-10-19 | | Juventud Escazucena | - | Sporting San José |
| 27-10-19 | | Puerto Golfito | - | Sporting San José |
| 03-11-19 | | Turrialba | - | Sporting San José |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Juventud Escazuceña | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 20 |
| 2 | Sporting San José | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 19 |
| 3 | Puerto Golfito | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | Puma Generaleña | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 14 |
| 5 | CS Uruguay de Coronado | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -3 | 14 |
| 6 | Curridabat | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 8 | -1 | 11 |
| 7 | Consultants Moravia | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -1 | 10 |
| 8 | Santa Ana | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | -5 | 10 |
| 9 | Turrialba | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | -8 | 8 |
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