The visiting San Carlos side should be favourites in this visit to Carmelita, as the away team holds a 25 point advantage from their 21 league games this season.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
San Carlos play their home games on artificial turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for San Carlos when playing on grass are 12 wins, 6 draws and 13 defeats from 31 matches. They have scored 42 goals and conceded 45 times in these games.
Carmelita form and stats
With 2 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, Carmelita are certainly not brimming with confidence. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 14 attempts. Carmelita are slowly digging their own grave here at Estadio Rafael Bolaños with the depressing streak of not having won a home game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the Guadalupe match.The points were shared in Carmelita's previous game, also at home. Visiting Alajuelense travelled back with a point after a 1-1 scoreline. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Cartaginés (1-2).
The Carmelita fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium, the tally being 12 in 10 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 17 goals have been conceded.
San Carlos form and stats
The visitors are W3-D3-L4 on the road this term.San Carlos won their last game, 2-0 versus Cartaginés played at home. Prior to that match, the San Carlos manager L. Marin faced defeat when travelling to UCR and losing 0-1.
San Carlos have scored 11 goals on their travels this season, 10 away games. San Carlos are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 9 times in 10 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: San Carlos - Carmelita 1-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Carmelita 4 wins, 1 draw and San Carlos 5 victories.Top Goalscorers
  Á. Saborío 26 goals |  J. Solís 9 goals |  M. Mena 7 goals |
Carmelita missing players
San Carlos missing players
| Carmelita | San Carlos | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 43 | 21 | Played | 22 | 45 |
| 49 | 27 | Scored | 31 | 73 |
| 77 | 34 | Conceded | 26 | 50 |
| 98% | 95% | Over 0.5 | 95% | 96% |
| 84% | 81% | Over 1.5 | 68% | 78% |
| 56% | 57% | Over 2.5 | 45% | 53% |
| 28% | 29% | Over 3.5 | 18% | 24% |
| 19% | 19% | Over 4.5 | 18% | 13% |
| 60% | 57% | Both teams to score | 64% | 64% |
| 7% | 14% | Clean Sheet | 14% | 22% |
| 35% | 33% | Failed To Score | 27% | 18% |
| 4 | 4.7 | Corners For (avg) | 3.6 | 4.5 |
| 5 | 4.9 | Corners Against (avg) | 6 | 5.3 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 2.4 | 2.1 |
| 4 | 2 | Red Cards (total) | 2 | 2 |
- Carmelita is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | D | P |
| 1 | San Carlos | 21 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 33 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 36 |
| 2 | Pérez Zeledón | 21 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 35 | 27 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 8 | 36 |
| 3 | Deportivo Saprissa | 21 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 36 | 27 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 9 | 35 |
| 4 | Herediano | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 32 |
| 5 | Cartaginés | 21 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 32 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 31 |
| 6 | Grecia | 21 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 32 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 31 |
| 7 | Alajuelense | 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 28 | 25 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 28 |
| 8 | UCR | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 33 | 38 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 23 | -5 | 28 |
| 9 | Santos de Guápiles | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 32 | 37 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 18 | -5 | 27 |
| 10 | Limón | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 21 | -8 | 26 |
| 11 | Guadalupe | 21 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 20 | 34 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 15 | -14 | 18 |
| 12 | Carmelita | 21 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 37 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 20 | -19 | 11 |
| 13 | Guadalupe | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
