Grecia fights Deportivo Saprissa in Primera Division battle

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Competition: Costa Rica Primera Division
Date: Sun 28.April
Match begins: 21:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Allen Riggioni Suárez (4000 seats)

Grecia will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind Deportivo Saprissa.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

Deportivo Saprissa play their home games on artificial turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Deportivo Saprissa when playing on grass are 9 wins, 11 draws and 10 defeats from 30 matches. They have scored 45 goals and conceded 40 times in these games.

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Grecia form and stats

Overall stats at home this season for Grecia are 4-4-2 (wins-draw-losses). Three draws from their last three home games means a steady supply of points here at Estadio Allen Riggioni Suárez, but a victory now would be sweet for Grecia.

Happy days for Grecia in their previous game, a Primera Division match away at Guadalupe that ended with a 2-1 victory. In the match before that, Grecia hosted Limón and drew the game 0-0.

Grecia have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estadio Allen Riggioni Suárez with 16 goals in 10 matches. Grecia are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estadio Allen Riggioni Suárez, averaging less than one per game. The total is 9 from 10 matches.

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Deportivo Saprissa form and stats

Playing away, Deportivo Saprissa, who have the most scored goals (36) in Primera Division, have won 5 games, drawn 1 and suffered 4 defeats so far this season.

The supporters enjoyed Deportivo Saprissa's previous game versus UCR, a Primera Division 4-0 win played at home. Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Alajuelense.

Deportivo Saprissa are not goal shy away from home, finding the net 15 times in 10 away games so far. 14 goals have been conceded by Deportivo Saprissa in these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Deportivo Saprissa - Grecia 4-2. As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's 0 Grecia victories, 3 draws and 4 Deportivo Saprissa wins.

Top Goalscorers

J. Venegas
14 goals
D. Estrada
11 goals
C. Bolaños
10 goals

Grecia missing players

Deportivo Saprissa missing players

Grecia Deportivo Saprissa
Total Home Statistic Away Total
43 21 Played 23 47
59 31 Scored 34 86
63 23 Conceded 26 50
98% 95% Over 0.5 96% 96%
84% 81% Over 1.5 78% 79%
56% 48% Over 2.5 35% 51%
28% 24% Over 3.5 30% 38%
14% 10% Over 4.5 9% 15%
63% 57% Both teams to score 39% 49%
23% 38% Clean Sheet 39% 40%
16% 10% Failed To Score 26% 15%
 
4.7 4.6 Corners For (avg) 5 5.8
4.3 4 Corners Against (avg) 5.3 4.7
2.5 2.2 Yellow Cards (avg) 2.5 2.3
6 2 Red Cards (total) 2 6

  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

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