Brand new|Fresh|New season, fresh|new potential|opportunities: Here's what you should|need to|must know before the Sporting San José - San Carlos game!
San Carlos play their home matches on artifical turf, while this fixture will take part on grass. Relevant results for San Carlos when featuring on grass are 7 wins, 11 draws and 14 defeats from 32 matches. They have managed to score {33 goals} and conceded 50 times on these occasions.
It's no vacation for neither José nor San Carlos 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.
Sporting San José form and stats
The season before, Sporting San José's league statistics were 9 wins, 7 draws and 6 losses, providing 5th spot in the Primera Division. During these 22 matches they scored {31 goals} and let in 28. Performing as the home side in the former season Sporting San José produced 7-4-0 (win-draw-lost) with {19 goals} and 9 conceded.
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 Sporting San José have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 10 games) they have won 6 times, drawn 4 and lost 0.
San Carlos form and stats
Let's have a look at how San Carlos performed last season in the Primera Division: They landed a 6th position in the league table after playing out 7 victories, 8 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 29 and conceded {30 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 4 and lost 5 with 10/17 goals scored/conceded.
San Carlos are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 5 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings involving these sides: José won four, San Carlos were winners in two and we saw four draws. four games with over 2,5 goals, six matches with less than 2,5 goals.
Top Goalscorers
  Y. Salinas Phillips 1 goals |   W. Azofeifa 1 goals |  E. Anderson Gomez 1 goals |
Sporting San José missing players
San Carlos missing players
| Sporting San José | San Carlos | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 8 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sporting San José | Last season | San Carlos | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 38 | 19 | Played | P | 19 | 38 | ||
| 15 | 11 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 11 | 7 | Drew | D | 5 | 13 | ||
| 12 | 1 | Lost | L | 10 | 13 | ||
| 60 | 39 | Scored | S | 19 | 48 | ||
| 54 | 23 | Conceded | C | 32 | 53 | ||
| 95% | 95% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 89% | 89% | ||
| 87% | 89% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 74% | 76% | ||
| 61% | 63% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 50% | ||
| 29% | 37% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 26% | 26% | ||
| 16% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 18% | ||
| 71% | 74% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 58% | ||
| 21% | 26% | Clean Sheets | C S | 26% | 32% | ||
| 13% | 5% | Failed to Score | F T | 32% | 21% | ||
| 5.2 | 4.9 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.8 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 4.8 | ||
| 2.9 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.9 | 3.1 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 6 | 11 | ||
| 9.8 | 8.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.7 | 8.9 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.9 | 3.4 | ||
| 45% | 60% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 37% | ||
| 10.5 | 8.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.7 | 9.4 | ||
| 3.9 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 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 Guapiles | 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 |
