Basic analysis suggest this game to be a low scoring game where favorite takes the win. Grecia has collected 0 wins, 1 draws and 7 losses during last 8 games. Last 3 HOME games show 0 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses. Their last HOME game was on 14. September against Guadalupe and it ended up away win (0-1). Last 8 matches of Saprissa show us 2 wins, 4 draws and 2 losses. Last 5 AWAY games are: 1 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses. The last AWAY game was on 10. December against Herediano and that ended with home win (3-0). From this data, we see both teams being equal and a possible DRAW here. Our football prediction for 1X2: pick DRAW!
This will be a match involving Medium ranking team Grecia and High ranking team Saprissa. Grecia's last 8 HOME games against High ranking teams show 3 wins, 1 draws and 4 losses. At the same time Saprissa AWAY performance against Medium ranking teams shows 4 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses from last 10 AWAY games. Grecia's attacking performance is 1.5 goals per game. Same stats for Saprissa shows us 1.5. On the defensive side, we have Grecia with 1.5 and Saprissa with 1 goals conceded per game. Taking all the Ranking-based facts and analysis into consideration, we see the victory of Saprissa as they have a big advatage over Grecia. Our football prediction for 1X2: Saprissa to win! High confidence.
From last 8 games of Grecia we see 5 games going Over 2.5 Goals and 3 with Under 2.5 Goals. Last 8 games of Saprissa have seen 3 Overs and 5 Unders. Looking at the rank-based O/U 2.5 stats of Grecia it has been 5 Overs and 3 Unders in their last 8 HOME games against teams with similar ranking to Saprissa. Saprissa has seen 5 Overs and 5 Unders in their last 10 AWAY games against teams with ranking close to Grecia. Grecia scores an average 1.33 goals each game at home stadium while Saprissa has been scoring 0.6 goals away. With these facts combined, we get a total average of 1.93 goals per match between both teams. Grecia concedes 3 goals on average and Saprissa 1.2 for a total of 4.2 goals conceded per match. From all this info, we expect about 3.1 goals per match. History shows that 62.5% of games end Over 2.5 for Grecia and 37.5% for Saprissa. Considering the OU 2.5 numbers and stats, it will end up being OVER 2.5 match. Under Over 2.5 prediction: back OVER 2.5! High stakes.
Will both teams score or not? Looking at the Grecia's last 8 games, we see 4 ´both teams scored´ and 4 ´only one team/no score´. From Saprissa's last 8 games 4 have seen both teams scoring and 4 only one/no score. Looking at the rank-based BTTS stats, Grecia had 5 BTTS YES and 3 NO's. For Saprissa, we have seen 6 BTTS YES and 4 NO's. There is a 50% chance of Grecia scoring in this game, the percent for Saprissa is 50% . Probability of conceding a goal is 100% for Grecia and 75% for Saprissa. Looking at the stats above, it is going to be a game where BOTH TEAMS have a great chance to score and thus the best BTTS football prediction would be BOTH TEAMS to Score. High stakes.