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

Santa Ana and Santos de Guápiles will play on September 18th, 2024, Wednesday at 22:00h (UTC), in a game counting for the Primera Division in Costa Rica, check the Santa Ana vs Santos de Guápiles betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Santa Ana vs Santos de Guápiles will occur

The game is set to be played in the small Estadio de Piedades stadium, in the city of Santa Ana, with a capacity for 3000 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

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Introduction to the Santa Ana vs Santos de Guápiles 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 2.63 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.67 goals per game of the last championship.

Santa Ana last match

The last match ended in a loss for the Santa Ana team. On that occasion they met Guanacasteca for the Primera Division, and the match ended 1-0.

The odds for the defeat of the home team before the match were 2.00, so it was expected to be a fairly even match.

Santos de Guápiles last match

Santos de Guápiles 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 1-2.

The pre-match forecasts made it clear that the defeat was more than clear before the game started. The odds for their win, 4.75 were a sign of it.

Santa Ana vs Santos de Guápiles h2h

Regarding previous matches between the two teams, we can see that this will be the first time Santa Ana and Santos de Guápiles will play against each other.

The Santa Ana team in the last five matches has achieved more regular results, with a total of 2 wins, compared to the Santos de Guápiles team, which has no wins recently.

Santa Ana

Primera Division leaderboard now

comes into this game with 8 points, putting them in 10th place in the Primera Division. They are also encumbered with a negative balance, 5 losses, 2 wins, and 2 draws.

In the 11th round, Pérez Zeledón, that is in the 9th place, has the same score.

Ranked in the middle of the league table in the Costa Rica Primera Division, Santa Ana has no high ambitions or relegation concerns. Despite this, they will try to take advantage of the home factor to get a win.

Santa Ana analysis

Santa Ana after 10 matchdays have scored 7 goals and conceded 19 goals, and therefore shows a negative goal difference.

The Santa Ana team comes from a defeat in the Primera Division, and its coach Cristian Alberto Oviedo Calvo wants to counter this trend by imposing a loss on his opponent, using the advantage of playing at home.

The performances of Santa Ana in recent matches suggest that they are having difficulty scoring goals, with a low number of goals and a high number of matches where they failed to score. This indicates that their attacking play is not creating enough quality chances and needs improvement.

Santa Ana has a relatively low average of shots towards the goal, with only 3.56 attempts per game, and this is an indication that the team has a poor attack, and therefore scores few goals.

his ball possession percentage is 46.33% in this tournament, which is why the team shows rather a waiting game than an offensive one. Fans fear that this could pose a problem in scoring in the next match against Santos de Guápiles and would like a more aggressive attitude with more goals from their favorites.

Best goalscorer from Santa Ana

Individually, the team's main offensive standout in the competition so far is Andy Reyes Vado. The Attacker has already scored 2 times this season and has helped Santa Ana come away with the positive result on several occasions.

Santos de Guápiles

Primera Division leaderboard now

Santos de Guápiles arrives in this game with 3 points, and in 12th place in the Primera Division, having won 0 games in total and lost 6 times, making a total of 3 draws.

The team has no disadvantage against Puntarenas who occupies position 11 in the 11th round and has the same amount of points.

Santos de Guápiles analysis

We have reached matchday 10 in Primera Division and at the moment Santos de Guápiles has made 10 goals and conceded 22.

Santos de Guápiles 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.

Best goalscorer from Santos de Guápiles

Individually, the team's most offensive player in the competition so far is Juan Madrigal Espinoza. The Defender has scored 3 times in the current season and has helped Santos de Guápiles come out with a positive result on several occasions.

It is important to highlight that more than 50% of the goals scored by this player were from the penalty spot. More precisely, 2 of the 3 goals scored have this characteristic.

For punters some entries may be relevant for this game, namely:

Goals Top Betting Tips

Some study shows us that between 75-90 minutes is where most goals occur, this can be a good bet for those who follow the live game.

Since Santos de Guápiles has an average of 0.75 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.

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

Corners Top Betting Tips

A good thing to note for those wanting to get sports betting results is that there is an average of 4.16 corners per game.

Cards Top Betting Tips

Highly disciplined, the teams have an average of only 3.8 yellow cards per match, when added together. In other words, the 'Under 4.5 cards' option looks like a great alternative for bettors.

On the Santos de Guápiles side, we know that it is a more aggressive team having received the red card 3 time this season, very different from Santa Ana who only saw the red card once. Both the red and yellow cards market can be a good bet.

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