Primera Division preview: Can Santos de Guápiles edge out victory against Guadalupe?

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Competition: Costa Rica Primera Division
Date: Thu 25.July
Match begins: 00:00 (UTC)
Venue: Estadio Ebal Rodríguez Aguilar (4500 seats)

Only a few games have been played in the Primera Division so far, with Santos de Guápiles placed 11th and Guadalupe sitting in the 1st position.

It's no vacation for neither Santos de Guápiles nor Guadalupe as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Santos de Guápiles form and stats

The home fans saw their team lose the first game of the season here at Estadio Ebal Rodríguez Aguilar. Last season these fans witnessed 6 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses from Santos de Guápiles's eleven home games.

The Santos de Guápiles crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to Guadalupe here at Estadio Ebal Rodríguez Aguilar in a Primera Division match. Preceding that game was the away draw at Cartaginés that finished 0-0.

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 Santos de Guápiles have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found five games) they have won 2 times, drawn 1 and lost 2.

Santos de Guápiles has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 1 home game.

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Guadalupe form and stats

Only one away game so far for Guadalupe and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 3 victories, 3 draws and 5 losses from eleven travels.

Two travels in a row for Guadalupe, whose manager G. Segura could celebrate last time after the Primera Division win against Santos de Guápiles. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Alajuelense.

We have checked recent matches where Guadalupe have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those seven games were W3-D1-L3.

2 goals so far away for Guadalupe, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 0. All from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Santos de Guápiles - Guadalupe 0-2, played this season. As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's 2 Santos de Guápiles victories, 1 draw and 6 Guadalupe wins. 4 of these games ended with three goals or more, 5 matches with two goals or less.

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Santos de Guápiles missing players

Guadalupe missing players

Santos de Guápiles Guadalupe
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs low Away Total
2 1 0 Played 0 1 2
0 0 0 Won 0 1 1
1 0 0 Drew 0 0 1
1 1 0 Lost 0 0 0
0 0 0 Scored 0 2 3
2 2 0 Conceded 0 0 1
50% 100% 0% Over 0.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 100% 0% Over 1.5 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Over 2.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS 0% 0% 50%
50% 0% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 100% 50%
100% 100% 0% Failed To Score 0% 0% 0%
 
3.5 3 0 Corners For (avg) 0 4 5.5
5.5 4 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 3 4
2 1 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 2 1.5
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Santos de Guápiles Last season Guadalupe
Total Home   Statistic   Away Total
44 22   Played   22 44
15 11   Won   5 10
7 3   Drew   4 11
22 8   Lost   13 23
59 33   Scored   23 45
68 29   Conceded   43 77
98% 95%   Over 0.5   95% 95%
82% 82%   Over 1.5   82% 84%
57% 50%   Over 2.5   59% 52%
23% 18%   Over 3.5   32% 25%
14% 14%   Over 4.5   18% 14%
55% 50%   BTTS   59% 59%
20% 27%   Clean Sheets   14% 14%
27% 27%   Failed To Score   32% 32%
 
4.8 6   Corners For (avg)   4.9 5.7
5.6 5.3   Corners Against (avg)   5.2 4.7
2.8 2.5   Yellow Cards (avg)   2.6 2.7
6 0   Red Cards   3 5
Key stats last season:
  • Guadalupe have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Santos de Guápiles have won significantly more corners at home than away.

Santos de Guápiles
All Concacaf League Primera Division Club Friendlies
All Home Away
07-04-19 PD Pérez Zeledón 1 - 1 Santos de Guápiles
14-04-19 PD Santos de Guápiles 1 - 1 Herediano
28-04-19 PD Cartaginés 2 - 1 Santos de Guápiles
21-07-19 PD Cartaginés 0 - 0 Santos de Guápiles
25-07-19 PD Santos de Guápiles 0 - 2 Guadalupe
28-07-19 PD Santos de Guápiles 21:00 Deportivo Saprissa
04-08-19 PD Limón 19:00 Santos de Guápiles
11-08-19 PD Santos de Guápiles 19:00 Pérez Zeledón
14-08-19 PD San Carlos 19:00 Santos de Guápiles
18-08-19 PD Santos de Guápiles 19:00 Grecia
Guadalupe
All Primera Division
All Home Away
07-04-19 PD Herediano 1 - 0 Guadalupe
13-04-19 PD Guadalupe 1 - 2 Grecia
28-04-19 PD Alajuelense 3 - 0 Guadalupe
21-07-19 PD Guadalupe 1 - 1 Alajuelense
25-07-19 PD Santos de Guápiles 0 - 2 Guadalupe
28-07-19 PD Guadalupe 22:00 Pérez Zeledón
04-08-19 PD Deportivo Saprissa 19:00 Guadalupe
11-08-19 PD Guadalupe 19:00 Limón
14-08-19 PD UCR 19:00 Guadalupe
18-08-19 PD Herediano 19:00 Guadalupe

  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 Guadalupe 2 1 1 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 4
2 Alajuelense 2 1 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 4
3 Deportivo Saprissa 2 1 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 3
4 Grecia 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3
5 Herediano 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 3
6 San Carlos 2 1 0 1 2 2 2 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
7 UCR 2 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 3
8 Pérez Zeledón 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -1 3
9 Cartaginés 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2
10 ADR Jicaral 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 1
11 Santos de Guápiles 2 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 -2 1
12 Limón 2 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 -3 0

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