Costa Rica vs Panama - 1:0 (Home Win)

19. Jul 2017 in the CONCACAF . Gold Cup, Costa Rica is hosting Panama. Most likely its is going to be a game where both teams put great effort on defensive side. Expecting a low scoring draw. Costa Rica has gained 8 wins, 8 draws and 3 losses from their last 19 games. Last 9 HOME games of Costa Rica show us 3 wins, 6 draws and 0 losses. Their last game at HOME was on 11. July against Canada, resulting in draw (1-1). Last 18 matches of Panama show us 8 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses. Last 6 AWAY games of Panama are: 1 wins, 1 draws and 4 losses. The last AWAY game was on 8. July against USA and that ended with draw (1-1). From this data, we see Costa Rica is in a better form with more chances to win than their opponent.

It is a game between Medium ranking team Costa Rica and Medium ranking team Panama. Costa Rica's last 3 HOME games against Medium ranking teams show 2 wins, 1 draws and 0 losses. Panama AWAY performance against Medium ranking teams shows 1 wins, 0 draws and 4 losses from last 5 AWAY games. Costa Rica's scoring power is 1.3 goals/game vs Panama's 0.4. Looking at the defensive side, Costa Rica performing 0.3 and Panama with 1.2 goals conceded on average per each game. Taking all the Ranking-based facts into account we expect Costa Rica being stronger and most likely winning this game.

When we look at the last 19 games of Costa Rica, we note 6 Overs and 13 Unders. Among the last 18 games of Panama, there have been 5 Overs and 13 Unders. Considering the rank-based O/U 2.5 stats of Costa Rica we see 1 Overs and 2 Unders in their last 3 HOME games against teams with similar ranking and performace as Panama. Panama has seen 1 Overs and 4 Unders in their last 5 AWAY games against teams with similar ranking and performance as Costa Rica has. Costa Rica is scoring an average of 0.89 goals per game at home when Panama scores 0.5 goals per game away. This makes an average of 1.39 goals per match between the teams. Costa Rica concedes 0.22 goals on average per game and Panama 1.83. Taking those numbers together we get a total of 2.05 goals conceded per match. From these averages, we expect to see 1.7 goals per match. History shows that 31.58% of games end Over 2.5 for Costa Rica and 27.78% for Panama. Taking all of the Over/Under 2.5 facts into consideration, it is very clearly a match where we see UNDER 2.5 GOALS.

Will both teams score or not? Looking at the Costa Rica's last 19 games, we see 6 ´both teams scored´ and 13 ´only one team/no score´. From Panama's last 18 games 6 have seen both teams scoring and 12 only one/no score. Looking at the rank-based BTTS stats, Costa Rica had 1 BTTS YES and 2 NO's. For Panama, we have seen 1 BTTS YES and 4 NO's. There is a 57.89% chance of Costa Rica scoring in this game, the percent for Panama is 61.11% . Probability of conceding a goal is 47.37% for Costa Rica and 61.11% for Panama. Looking at the stats above, it is going to be a 50-50 match and betting on BTTS bets is not reccomended.