Game week two of the Primera Division season and the teams have had a few days to digest the first match. Here's the Santos de Guápiles - Grecia preview:
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 Santos de Guápiles and Grecia.
Santos de Guápiles form and stats
All in all it has been a very rough period for Santos de Guápiles who hasn’t won a game in their last ten attempts. Their previous win was against Guadalupe, 119 days ago.
The home team returns to Juan Goban Stadium after being equal after 90 minutes with Cartaginés (placed 7th) on their last time out; the Primera Division game ended 2-2. Before that game, the home loss against UCR with the scoreline 1-4.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Santos de Guápiles as they are travelling to their away game against Guadalupe in the Primera Division. That match is two days after this one.
Last season, Santos de Guápiles's league statistics were 8 wins, 3 draws and 11 losses, resulting in a 9th position in the Primera Division. Over these 22 matches they scored 33 goals and conceded 39. Playing at home last season Santos de Guápiles managed 6-1-4 (win-draw-lost) with 22 goals and 19 conceded.
Grecia form and stats
The visitors are W0-D1-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Primera Division.
Grecia has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Herediano for a Primera Division game that ended a draw (3-3). Prior to that result Grecia won their away game at Deportivo Saprissa. The scoreline was 2-0.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Grecia, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting UCR in just four days.
It's early days yet, but Grecia has scored 3 and conceded 3 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Let's have a look at how Grecia performed last season in the Primera Division: They landed a 7th position in the league table after playing out 8 victories, 7 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 32 and conceded 32 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 3 and lost 4 with 16/18 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
The most recent history between these sides is the Grecia - Santos de Guápiles 3-1 played earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 4 Santos de Guápiles victories, 3 draws and 3 Grecia wins. 5 of these games ended with three goals or more, 5 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. East 11 goals |   J. Castro 8 goals |  M. Foster 5 goals |
Santos de Guápiles missing players
Grecia missing players
| Santos de Guápiles | Grecia | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 23 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 8 | 11 |
| 35 | 16 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 12 | 29 |
| 41 | 17 | 2 | Conceded | C | 10 | 24 | 42 |
| 96% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 91% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 78% |
| 61% | 45% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 57% |
| 48% | 36% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 25% | 39% |
| 17% | 18% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 25% | 22% |
| 78% | 73% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 58% | 57% |
| 9% | 9% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | 17% |
| 17% | 18% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 30% |
| 4.6 | 4.4 | 3 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
| 5.1 | 4.7 | 4.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 6.7 | 7 | 6 |
| 3.3 | 3 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 127 | 52 | 7 | Total Shots | T S | 13 | 52 | 118 |
| 55 | 23 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 2 | 12 | 43 |
| 64% | 70% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 75% | 60% |
- All of Santos de Guápiles's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Grecia haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Santos de Guápiles haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | Guadalupe | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | Alajuelense | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | ADR Jicaral | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Deportivo Saprissa | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Grecia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Herediano | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Cartaginés | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Santos de Guápiles | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | San Carlos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 10 | Pérez Zeledón | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 0 |
| 11 | Limón | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 0 |
| 12 | UCR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 0 |