Sporting San José and Alajuelense are eager to let people see their new people and tricks: It's the premier game of the Primera Division season.
The visiting Alajuelense played their last game only four days ago, a Concacaf Central American Cup match.
Sporting San José form and stats
The season before, Sporting San José's league stats were 9 wins, 7 draws and 6 losses, ending with 5th place in the Primera Division. From these 22 matches they scored {31 goals} and gave away 28. Appearing as the home team in the former season Sporting San José produced 7-4-0 (win-draw-lost) with {19 goals} and 9 conceded.
Alajuelense form and stats
Let's have a look at how Alajuelense performed last season in the Primera Division: They landed a 2nd position in the league table after playing out 12 victories, 5 draws and 5 defeats. In total they scored 50 and conceded {21 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 4 and lost 3 with 22/11 goals scored/conceded.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Alajuelense manager Ghelfi as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Hankook Verdes.
Head 2 Head
Sporting San José-Alajuelense H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: José two wins, Alajuelense five wins, three draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  D. Rodriguez 3 goals |  A. Suarez Zuñiga 3 goals |  J. Venegas Ulloa 3 goals |
Sporting San José missing players
Alajuelense missing players
| Sporting San José | Alajuelense | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4 | 5.5 |
| 7.5 | 7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 8 | 13 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 33% |
| 5.5 | 7 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 10 | 12 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| Sporting San José | Last season | Alajuelense | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 19 | Played | P | 23 | 46 | ||
| 15 | 11 | Won | W | 7 | 24 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Drew | D | 8 | 11 | ||
| 12 | 1 | Lost | L | 8 | 11 | ||
| 60 | 39 | Scored | S | 35 | 86 | ||
| 54 | 23 | Conceded | C | 29 | 47 | ||
| 95% | 95% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 89% | ||
| 87% | 89% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 74% | 76% | ||
| 61% | 63% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 61% | 59% | ||
| 29% | 37% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 43% | 41% | ||
| 16% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 13% | 17% | ||
| 71% | 74% | BTTS | BTTS | 52% | 46% | ||
| 21% | 26% | Clean Sheets | C S | 26% | 37% | ||
| 13% | 5% | Failed to Score | F T | 39% | 28% | ||
| 5.2 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 5.6 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 4.2 | ||
| 2.9 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.2 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 5 | ||
| 9.8 | 8.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.3 | 13.7 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 5.2 | ||
| 45% | 60% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 36% | ||
| 10.5 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8.8 | 9.2 | ||
| 3.9 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 3.6 | ||
| Last season | 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 | Pérez Zeledón | 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 |
