CS Cartagines 3-2 Puntarenas FC — Result, Statistics & Match Review — Costa Rica - Premier League, 8 Mar 2026

📅08/03/2026 · 🕒20:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 0-0 2nd Score 1-0
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Authentic Intelligence™ · Probability per market
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
42%
1.96
Draw
33%
3.04
Away
25%
3.71
Under/Over 2.5
Under Pick
69%
1.67
Over
31%
2.1
Both Teams to Score
Yes
38%
1.88
No
62%
1.82
Total Goals
0-1
41%
2-3
39%
4-5
14%
6+
6%
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
27%
1/2
5%
1/X
5%
X/1
10%
X/2
13%
X/X
24%
2/1
5%
2/2
8%
2/X
3%
STRENGTH — green bars inside a box show the pattern support behind that selection, from Good · Strong · Very strong to Great — the deeper the historical record, the fuller the bar; informational, not a sized bet.
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PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME CS Cartagines The Market 51%
Head to Head
AWAY Puntarenas FC The Market 27%
+3% / +4% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -4% / +1%
1.59/0.94 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.96/1.17
+8% / +13% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) -11% / +22%
52% Ball Possession 48%
11 Total Shots 9
4 Shots on Target 3
4 Corners 4
306 · 77% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 280 · 74%
Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area
Crosses
1.9 Yellow Cards 2.3
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME CS Cartagines
2W-2D-2L
AWAY Puntarenas FC
1.00 Avg Goals (FT) 0.83
45% Ball Possession 55%
9 Total Shots 11
3 Shots on Target 4
5 Corners 5
2 Yellow Cards 3
18.01.2026 Puntarenas FC Puntarenas FC 0-2 HT 0-1 CS Cartagines CS Cartagines KOSTA
19.10.2025 Puntarenas FC Puntarenas FC 1-1 HT 0-0 CS Cartagines CS Cartagines KOSTA
31.08.2025 CS Cartagines CS Cartagines 0-0 HT 0-0 Puntarenas FC Puntarenas FC KOSTA
30.03.2025 CS Cartagines CS Cartagines 1-0 HT 0-0 Puntarenas FC Puntarenas FC KOSTA
06.03.2025 Puntarenas FC Puntarenas FC 1-0 HT 0-0 CS Cartagines CS Cartagines KOSTA
10.11.2024 Puntarenas FC Puntarenas FC 3-2 HT 2-0 CS Cartagines CS Cartagines KOSTA
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME CS Cartagines
3-2
AWAY Puntarenas FC
53% Ball Possession 47%
8 Total Shots 10
4 Shots on Target 5
3 Corners 6
2 Yellow Cards 3
REVIEW CS Cartagines vs Puntarenas FC
IDDAAKOLIK POST-MATCH REVIEW

CS Cartagines squeezed past Puntarenas FC 3-2. Half-time: 1-0. With 5 goals, entertainment was never the problem.

The way our numbers pointed is the way it went: our model had CS Cartagines as the likeliest winner at 42%, and the 3-2 landed on that lead. The one blemish: under 2.5 goals (69%), no to both teams scoring (62%) never looked like landing.

By the numbers, CS Cartagines had 53% of the ball to Puntarenas FC's 47%, shots finished 8-10.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, honours were even at 2 apiece, 2 drawn. Those games averaged 1.00 goals for CS Cartagines and 0.83 for Puntarenas FC.

CS Cartagines vs Puntarenas FC Result & Final Score

CS Cartagines 3-2 Puntarenas FC in the Costa Rica - Premier League on 08/03/2026. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

CS Cartagines vs Puntarenas FC Prediction vs Result

Before kick-off our model rated a CS Cartagines win the most likely single outcome at about 42%, with the full match-result split CS Cartagines 42%, draw 33%, Puntarenas FC 25%. The final score 3-2 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Match Result (CS Cartagines) — while Under 2.5, BTTS No went the other way.

✓ Match Result (CS Cartagines) ✗ Under 2.5 ✗ BTTS No
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