Cartaginés are enjoying their 3rd, while Sporting San José are hanging back 6 points behind in the league table. Will they cut the gap?
- Cartaginés have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting San José have the most dropped points from leading position (29) in Primera Division
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.
Cartaginés form and stats
Cartaginés are steadily winning Primera Division games and points here at Estadio José Rafael Fello Meza. 8 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 11 games.
The Cartaginés club members enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Sporting San José and win 3-2.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Grecia that finished 1-1.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 Cartaginés have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 14 games) they have won 7 times, drawn 4 and lost 3.
Some goal stats: A review of the 10 most recent league games reveals that 8 of them had at least one goal from each side.
Cartaginés have conceded 13 in these home matches. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Sporting San José form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sporting San José so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-6 (win-draw-lose). Sporting San José has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
It might be tough going out on the road again for Sporting San José, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 2-3 versus Cartaginés (placed 3rd).
A draw for José before that, at their own venue hosting Deportivo Saprissa (0-0).We have checked recent matches where Sporting San José have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 11 games were 2 victories, 3 draws and 6 defeats.
Take note! Both teams have scored in 13 of this club's last 17 league games.
Sporting San José find the net regularly in their away games. 12 goals from 11 away fixtures in the league. José have conceded 19 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The two teams involved played each other earlier on this campaign: Cartaginés - Sporting San José 3-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Cartaginés victories, two draws and four Sporting San José wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. López Muñoz 9 goals | R. Azofeifa Corrales 7 goals | B. Martínez Nava 6 goals |
Cartaginés missing players
Sporting San José missing players
| Cartaginés | Sporting San José | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 38 | 19 | 5 | Played | P | 6 | 19 | 38 |
| 16 | 11 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 15 |
| 9 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 13 | 5 | 0 | Lost | L | 5 | 11 | 12 |
| 65 | 35 | 12 | Scored | S | 7 | 21 | 60 |
| 59 | 26 | 4 | Conceded | C | 14 | 31 | 54 |
| 97% | 95% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 95% | 95% |
| 92% | 89% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 84% | 87% |
| 63% | 74% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 83% | 58% | 61% |
| 37% | 37% | 60% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 21% | 29% |
| 24% | 26% | 40% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 11% | 16% |
| 74% | 68% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 68% | 71% |
| 18% | 26% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 16% | 21% |
| 11% | 11% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 21% | 13% |
| 4.7 | 5.6 | 6.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 5.4 | 5.2 |
| 4.2 | 3.2 | 2.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 4.4 | 4.1 |
| 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.8 | 3.1 | 2.9 |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 11.1 | 14.2 | 15.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.8 | 11.2 | 9.8 |
| 4.2 | 5.7 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.6 | 3.5 |
| 41% | 32% | 41% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 39% | 30% | 45% |
| 10.3 | 10.4 | 9.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.3 | 12.5 | 10.5 |
| 3.6 | 3.6 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
- Cartaginés have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting San José have the most dropped points from leading position (29) in Primera Division
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Deportivo Saprissa | 22 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 48 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 32 | 50 |
| 2 | Alajuelense | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 50 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 11 | 29 | 41 |
| 3 | Cartaginés | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 40 | 32 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 8 | 40 |
| 4 | Herediano | 22 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 35 | 31 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 4 | 36 |
| 5 | Sporting San José | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 31 | 28 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 3 | 34 |
| 6 | San Carlos | 22 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 29 | 30 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 17 | -1 | 29 |
| 7 | Guanacasteca | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 19 | -2 | 28 |
| 8 | Santos de Guápiles | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 25 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 16 | -7 | 27 |
| 9 | Perez Zeledon | 22 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 26 | 41 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 23 | -15 | 24 |
| 10 | Puntarenas | 22 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 20 | -12 | 20 |
| 11 | Guadalupe | 22 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 28 | 43 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 24 | -15 | 19 |
| 12 | Grecia | 22 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 45 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 31 | -24 | 16 |
