Match Report
14 points and 3 places separated them: Santos de Guápiles 8th with 24, Cartaginés 5th with 38. Cartaginés ranked just 12th in the league on five-round form despite their 5th table position. Against a league average of 1.24 goals per team per game, Santos de Guápiles ran at 1.18 scored and 1.5 conceded, Cartaginés at 1.32 and 0.73.
16 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Santos de Guápiles 6, draws 3, Cartaginés 7, at 2.31 goals per meeting. Playing at home matters in this fixture: 63% of the meetings went to the host.
Estadio Ebal Rodríguez Aguilar in Guapiles staged the fixture, a ground that holds 4,500. It was 1-1 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-1.