Alajuelense vs Cartaginés betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Primera Division match on September 22nd, 2024

A football match between Alajuelense and Cartaginés of the Primera Division will take place in Costa Rica on Sunday, September 22nd, 2024, at 22:00h (UTC), check the Alajuelense vs Cartaginés betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Alajuelense vs Cartaginés will occur

The game is set to be played in the small Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto stadium, in the city of Alajuela, with a capacity for 17895 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

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Introduction to the Alajuelense vs Cartaginés betting tip 2024/2025

Despite the season change, the Primera Division has not changed much regarding goals. Today's average goals in the competition are still similar to what was seen in the tournament's last edition. The current mark is 2.66 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.67 goals per game of the last championship.

Alajuelense last match

Alajuelense is coming off a draw. In its last outing they faced Puntarenas in a match valid for Primera Division, and the match ended 1-1.

Considering the high odds of winning the match, a draw (odd 3.75) turned out to be a bad result.

Cartaginés last match

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this contest after a previous event's victory. In a dispute valid for Primera Division, Cartaginés faced the Sporting San José team, and the score ended in favor with a 1-0.

A win for the home team had odds of 2.10, which makes it clear that a close match was expected.

Alajuelense vs Cartaginés h2h

The two teams have not faced each other since 04-08-2024. On that occasion they were playing for the 2024/2025 season of the Primera Division, and the match ended with a 0-1 win for Alajuelense.

The last time these teams played, victory was hard-won.

The performance of the Cartaginés team in their five recent games to date has been relatively good, unlike the Alajuelense team.

Alajuelense

Primera Division leaderboard now

The Alajuelense team with 19 points currently occupies the 3rd place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Semi-finals, with a campaign of 5 wins, 4 draws and 0 losses.

Which means that, with the same score, the team is ahead the Cartaginés team closing in at the 4th place in the 12th round.

Alajuelense analysis

Alajuelense at the end of round 11 in Primera Division had 14 goals scored and 6 conceded.

Alajuelense has been hard to beat lately, drawing their last 3 matches and winning the other 2. They have shown great resilience and character in these matches, and it seems that they are a tough nut to crack for any team in the league.

The Alajuelense team typically attempts to achieve an average ball possession of 58.56% to control the game. The reason for this is that teams with ball possession above 50% usually have some control over their opponents.

Having a record of 3 wins versus 0 losses, and 2 draws in comparison to the 2 games they won as the visiting team, there’s no place like home for this team.

Best goalscorer from Alajuelense

Alberto Toril has proved to be a tremendous individual asset for the team's offense this season. With 3 goals scored in the competition, the Attacker has been instrumental in leading Alajuelense to obtain favorable outcomes on several occasions.

It should also be noted that 1 of the goals scored by the player were from the penalty spot.

Cartaginés

Primera Division leaderboard now

The Cartaginés team with 19 points currently occupies the 4th place of the leaderboard, being in the qualifying place for the Semi-finals, with a campaign of 6 wins, 1 draw, and 3 losses.

The team has the same number of points that the Alajuelense who holds the 3rd place in the 12th round.

Cartaginés analysis

After round 11 of Primera Division we count 14 goals scored by Cartaginés and 8 conceded.

Cartaginés has been playing in a topsy-turvy manner lately, with alternating results of wins and losses. They will need to find a way to string together consistent performances if they want to challenge for the top spots in the league.

This is a top 5 team in the Primera Division that wants to keep up with the good performances!

Best goalscorer from Cartaginés

Marco Ureña has proved to be a tremendous individual asset for the team's offense this season. With 5 goals scored in the competition, the Attacker has been instrumental in leading Cartaginés to obtain favorable outcomes on several occasions.

Now a few markets where you can get some return from your bets:

Goals Top Betting Tips

It can also be interesting to bet on who will score in this match. The featured player of Alajuelense is Alberto Toril, who has already scored 3 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Cartaginés is Marco Ureña, he has scored in 5 opportunities.

The best time to place bets is between 75-90 minutes as some study have shown this to be where most goals happen.

Taking into consideration that Cartaginés scores an average of 0.75 goals per match when playing away, we should consider the under 2.5 betting market, especially because this team usually does not concede goals when playing out of their stadium.

At the bookmaker Bet365, the market of Total Goals Under 2.5 is with great odds.

In this game, our system found another interesting opportunity for a successful bet. Both teams score and usually suffer the first goal between the 30-40 minute. With this convergence, it is typically a value market!

Corners Top Betting Tips

One will find that combining the number of corners of both teams gives an average of 5.04 corners per game, making this something to note in attempting to obtain good betting results.

Alajuelense is usually quite offensive in their matches, and this has resulted in a high average of corner kicks in the competition. Currently, the team averages 6.78 corners per game played. Therefore, it might be interesting to bet on the over corner kicks of Alajuelense in this match.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 3.73 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

This is a match with several good betting entries to have some return on sports betting.

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