Jamaica national team meet Costa Rica in the third round of World Cup qualifiers in CONCACAF. The match starts on Saturday, March 26th.
The hosts of the match showed impressive results at last year Golden Cup, losing to Mexico in the final 1-3. They are currently third in their WordCup-2018 tough qualifying group with 3 points after 2 matchdays. Jamaica won at Haiti (1-0) and lost to Panama (0-2). Jamaican players took part in 16 international matches last year, taking 8 wins, 1 draw and 7 losses. Jamaica lost 3 recent home games with 3-8 aggregate score.
Costa Rica took leading position in the group after 2 matches with 6 points and 3-1 goal difference. The team played 17 matches in 20015, taking 5 wins, 6 draws and 6 defeats in these matches.
Costa Rica have slight advantage in the head-to-head record between these teams. They don’t lose to Jamaica in recent 5 of these matches winning only one of them. Both team show low scoring and allow small number of goals as well. We can expect the match with small number of chances and goals.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 goals.