Puntarenas vs Santa Ana betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Primera Division match on August 25th, 2024

Puntarenas and Santa Ana will on Sunday, August 25th, 2024 at 21:00h (UTC), play in a Primera Division football game in Costa Rica, check the Puntarenas vs Santa Ana betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Puntarenas vs Santa Ana will occur

The game will be played in the small Estadio Municipal de Puntarenas Miguel Ángel Lito Pérez Treacy stadium, in the city of Puntarenas, with a capacity for 1800 spectators, who hope to help the team to surprise in this match.

Where to follow the live game

You can find all the follow-up to the match live on Betarena, bringing odds, events, statistics, and more to help with your sports betting.

Introduction to the Puntarenas vs Santa Ana 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 2.71 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.67 goals per game of the last championship.

Puntarenas last match

Puntarenas in its last official match lost (1-0) against Pérez Zeledón, in a match valid for Primera Division.

A defeat of the home team had odds of 2.05, which makes it clear that a close match was expected.

Santa Ana last match

Santa Ana appears in the same condition as the rival. The team also arrives from a defeat for this match. In a Primera Division game, the team faced Deportivo Saprissa, and the score ended with a 0-3.

The odds for their win, 5.25 left no room for doubt. The defeat was clear before the match started.

Puntarenas vs Santa Ana h2h

The two teams have not faced each other since 08-05-2022. On that occasion they were playing for the 2021/2022 season of the Liga de Ascenso, and the match ended with a 0-5 win for Puntarenas.

Puntarenas

Primera Division leaderboard now

comes into this game with 2 points, putting them in 10th place in the Primera Division. They are also encumbered with a negative balance, 4 losses, 0 wins, and 2 draws.

This means that in the 7th round the team has no advantage in relation to the Santos de Guápiles team that is in the 11th place.

Puntarenas will try to enforce the home factor as an advantage to get a win. This, despite being situated in the middle of the league table in the Costa Rica Primera Division and having no high aspirations or relegation concerns.

Puntarenas analysis

Puntarenas at the end of round 6 in Primera Division had 3 goals scored and 8 conceded.

Puntarenas has been going through a rough patch in their recent matches, losing their last 4 matches and drawing the other. They will need to regroup and find a way to bounce back from this dip in form if they want to salvage their season.

Puntarenas seems to be facing a problem in scoring goals, as they have recorded a low number of goals and a high number of matches where they failed to score. This could be an indication that they are struggling to generate good scoring opportunities and need to improve their attacking performance.

Puntarenas, with a ball possession of 47% per game on average, is not the team that imposes its game, and rather prefers a tactic devoted to waiting and counterattacks. However, in the match against Santa Ana of 2024/2025 they will have to do something more, try to maintain possession of the ball and attack the opponent's goal with more continuity.

Santa Ana

Primera Division leaderboard now

Santa Ana arrives in this game with 2 points, and in 12th place in the Primera Division, having won 0 games in total and lost 4 times, making a total of 2 draws.

With the same score that the Santos de Guápiles who occupies position 11, the team will fight for a best position in this 7th round.

Santa Ana analysis

Santa Ana, after 6 rounds, has conceded more goals than it has scored. The goals scored are in fact 3 while 16 are those conceded to opponents.

Santa Ana is going through a rough patch in their form, having lost their last 3 matches and drawing the other 2. They need to regroup and find a way to get back to winning ways if they want to stay competitive in the league.

It seems that Santa Ana is having trouble scoring goals, with a low number of goals scored and a high number of games where they failed to score. This implies that their attacking play needs improvement, with a focus on creating better chances and converting them into goals.

Santa Ana has a relatively low average of shots towards the goal, with only 3.5 attempts per game, and this is an indication that the team has a poor attack, and therefore scores few goals.

Team with a low scoring efficiency, the average goals scored do not exceed 0.5 per game. With a low score efficiency and playing away from home, this could be decisive for a bad result.

Interesting Match Facts:

With Puntarenas boasting an unbeaten record in their recent encounters against Santa Ana, all eyes are on them to maintain their dominance on the field.

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

Goals Top Betting Tips

Between 75-90 minutes is a good time to bet as some study have shown this to be the time where most goals occur.

Since Santa Ana has an average of 0.67 goals per game when playing away from home, and considering that they often do not concede goals away from home, the market with less than 2.5 goals it can also be an excellent alternative to consider.

Currently, at Bet365, the odds for the Total Goals Under 2.5 market are quoted at 2.

Corners Top Betting Tips

To obtain good betting results, remembering that there is an average of 4.66 corners per game when the corners numbers of both teams are combined.

Santa Ana 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 6.33 corners per game played. Therefore, it might be interesting to bet on the over corner kicks of Santa Ana in this match.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 2.67 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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