Santos de Guápiles vs Guanacasteca betting tip 2024/2025 - Picks and Predictions for the Primera Division match on February 01th, 2025

Santos de Guápiles and Guanacasteca will meet each other on February 01th, 2025, Saturday at 00:00h (UTC), in an event counting for the Primera Division in Costa Rica, check the Santos de Guápiles vs Guanacasteca betting tip 2024/2025 to win with your bets.

Stadium and City where Santos de Guápiles vs Guanacasteca will occur

The game will be played in the small Estadio Ebal Rodríguez Aguilar stadium, in the city of Guapiles, with a capacity for 4500 spectators, that will try to help the team achieve a positive result.

Where to follow the live game

See everything about the match live on Betarena, including statistics, events and odds, and everything that can help with your sports betting.

Introduction to the Santos de Guápiles vs Guanacasteca 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 2.64 goals per game, which is very close to the 2.67 goals per game of the last championship.

Santos de Guápiles last match

The last match ended in a loss for the Santos de Guápiles team. On that occasion they met Deportivo Saprissa for the Primera Division, and the match ended 1-0.

The odds for them to win, of 7.00 left no room for doubt. The defeat was clear before the match started.

Guanacasteca last match

On the other hand, the visiting team appears in this match after drawing in the previous game. In a confrontation valid for Primera Division, Guanacasteca faced the Puntarenas team, and the score ended with a 1-1 draw.

In the previous analysis the draw was among the logical results of this match, especially because it was expected a fairly even game between both teams and had odds around 3.10.

Santos de Guápiles vs Guanacasteca h2h

The most recent precedent between these two clubs was in 20-10-2024, in the 2024/2025 season of the Primera Division, which ended with a 4-0 win for Santos de Guápiles.

Teams varying in strengths and motivations.

Santos de Guápiles

Primera Division leaderboard now

Santos de Guápiles joins the match with 21 points. They rank in 10th place in the Primera Division, the team also suffers from a negative balance having won only 5 games, losing 11, and scoring 6 draws.

In the 7th round, the team holds an advantage of 1 point over the Santa Ana team, which is in position 11 just below, and with 1 point less than that of the Pérez Zeledón team that occupies the 9th place.

Positioned in the middle of the league table in the Costa Rica Primera Division without high aspirations or fears of ending up in the relegation zone, the Santos de Guápiles will try to take advantage of the home factor to get a win.

Santos de Guápiles analysis

Santos de Guápiles at the end of round 6 in Primera Division had 29 goals scored and 39 conceded.

The Santos de Guápiles team comes from a defeat in the Primera Division, and its coach Walter Centeno Corea wants to counter this trend by imposing a loss on his opponent, using the advantage of playing at home.

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.

With an average ball possession of 47.45% per game in the current league, Santos de Guápiles cannot call itself a team that holds the game in its hands, rather it prefers the counterattacking strategy. But if they want to try to win the game against Guanacasteca they must try to impose their game to create difficulties for their opponents.

Best goalscorer from Santos de Guápiles

If we want to highlight a player in the team's offensive sector until this competition stage, we have to name Juan Gerardo Villalobos de la Espada. Santos de Guápiles owes some of their triumphs to the Attacker who scored 5 goals in this season.

Guanacasteca

Primera Division leaderboard now

Guanacasteca arrives in this game with 35 points, and in 5th place in the Primera Division, having won 10 games in total and lost 7 times, making a total of 5 draws.

Saddled with the same score that the Herediano team in position 4, in the 7th round.

Guanacasteca analysis

Guanacasteca, after 6 rounds, has conceded more goals than it has scored. The goals scored are in fact 26 while 28 are those conceded to opponents.

A team with great aspirations and abilities in the Primera Division.

With a busy schedule, Guanacasteca may have difficulty maintaining its performance facing multiple games in a short period of time. Despite the odds predicting a balanced game with Santos de Guápiles and Guanacasteca having odds for victory above 2, the team's busy schedule may be a decisive factor for the result.

Best goalscorer from Guanacasteca

Individually, the team's most offensive player in the competition so far is Johan Venegas. The Attacker has scored 7 times in the current season and has helped Guanacasteca come out with a positive result on several occasions.

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

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 Santos de Guápiles is Juan Gerardo Villalobos de la Espada, who has already scored 5 goals in the competition. On the other hand, the leading scorer of Guanacasteca is Johan Venegas, he has scored in 7 opportunities.

For those following the live game, it has been known that between 75-90 minutes is a period where most goals are scored making this a good time to bet.

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

To obtain good betting results, remembering that there is an average of 3.9 corners per game when the corners numbers of both teams are combined.

Cards Top Betting Tips

These teams together have a combined average of 17.5 yellow cards per match. Therefore, it might be a good option to bet on the 'Over 4.5 cards' option in this duel.

On the Santos de Guápiles side, we know that it is a more aggressive team having received the red card 4 times this season, very different from Guanacasteca who only saw the red card 3 times. Both the red and yellow cards market can be a good bet.

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

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