Puntarenas vs Santos de Guápiles betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Primera Division match on January 18th, 2025

A football match between Puntarenas and Santos de Guápiles of the Primera Division will take place in Costa Rica on Saturday, January 18th, 2025, at 21:00h (UTC), check the Puntarenas vs Santos de Guápiles betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Puntarenas vs Santos de Guápiles will occur

The game takes place in the small Estadio Municipal de Puntarenas Miguel Ángel Lito Pérez Treacy stadium, in the city of Puntarenas, with a capacity for 1800 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

Where to follow the live game

Take the opportunity to check out the match live in Betarena, bringing much information to your bets, including statistics, events and odds.

Introduction to the Puntarenas vs Santos de Guápiles betting tip 2024/2025

In the last match played, Puntarenas met Herediano, in a match valid for the Primera Division. The match ended in a draw by 1-1.

The game had all the elements to be an even game between both teams, for that reason it was logical that the draw was one of the most expected results, with odds around 3.10.

On the other hand, the visiting team arrives at this match after a defeat in the previous event. In a dispute valid for Primera Division, Santos de Guápiles faced the Cartaginés team, and the score ended with a 5-0 for their rivals.

A fairly even game was expected, with odds for the home defeat at 1.83.

The previous encounter between these teams saw them fighting hard to stay ahead.

These two clubs faced each other for the last time in a match of the 2024/2025 Primera Division season. The match, played on 26-10-2024, recorded the 1-0 win for Puntarenas.

Puntarenas

Current leaderboard

At this beginning of the championship, Puntarenas occupies the 12th place in the league, with 15 points conquered until this 3rd round.

This is the second match of Puntarenas as the local team in the current season. In the first game at home, they faced the Herediano team and tied, 1-1.

Puntarenas analysis

Puntarenas have a negative goal difference, having after 2 rounds conceded 34 goals to opponents and scored 18. An average to improve.

Puntarenas has a ball possession average of 48% in the league. Therefore, they are not the team that proposes the game, which can be a problem for this match. Therefore, fans hope the team to have more possession in this Puntarenas vs Santos de Guápiles 2024/2025 match and, especially, to convert it into goals.

Santos de Guápiles

Current leaderboard

Santos de Guápiles is currently in 10th place in the league after the 3rd round, having won 21 points from their matches so far this season.

Santos de Guápiles play away from home for the second time this season. They lost against Cartaginés in their first, by 5-0.

Santos de Guápiles analysis

Santos de Guápiles, after 2 rounds, has conceded more goals than it has scored. The goals scored are in fact 29 while 39 are those conceded to opponents.

With an average of 3.95 shots on goal per match, Santos de Guápiles certainly cannot call itself a fearsome, or particularly prolific, attack, and this is another very good indicator to take into account in evaluations.

For bettors some entries may be interesting for this match, namely:

As we are at the beginning of the competition, there is still little data to be studied, that allows suggestions for good bets. However, it is important to note that, usually, in the first games of a tournament, the matches have goals in the first half. The teams are still getting familiar, and there is no interest in maintaining any specific result due to the leaderboard.

Corners Top Betting Tips

Although the sample is still small, and therefore less accurate, due to the tournament being in the initial rounds, it is already possible to have an average of corners won by these teams. Adding the number of corner shots of these two teams, we reach an average of 4.38 per game.

Cards market betting suggestions

It is also challenging to get a precise average about the number of cards that the teams receive during the matches; however, so far, Puntarenas has received 39 yellow cards and 3 reds in 22 matches contested. At the same time, Santos de Guápiles was cautioned with yellow cards in 52 opportunities and red 4 times in 22 games.

Goals Top Betting Tips

The number of goals scored and conceded at the start of the championship round by both teams can be a good betting parameter. Puntarenas didn't score any goal in the last round of the competition and conceded in 34 opportunities, while Santos de Guápiles scored 29 times and conceded 39 goals as well.

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

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