Abahani greet Arambagh as odds-on favourites: Big football preview

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Competition: Bangladesh Premier League
Competition: Mon 09.August
Match begins: 10:15 (UTC)
Venue: Bangabandhu National Stadium

The league table in Premier League tells a story about these teams so far, with Abahani leading Arambagh by 32 points. Match preview to follow:

Insights:
  • Abahani have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Arambagh have the most conceded goals (54) in Premier League

These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Premier League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Sheikh Jamal.

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Abahani form and stats

5-3-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier League numbers at home for Abahani so far this season.

An away draw last time out for Abahani, facing Sheikh Jamal in a game that ended 2-2. Late drama in the game against Sheikh Jamal as Abahani were trailing by a goal near the finishing line until K. Belfort popped out and made it level in the 88th minute. A painful moment in the game against Sheikh Jamal was the missed penalty kick from S. Nwadialu in the 79th minute. A goal there would obviously have changed the match and probably the outcome.

Ahead of that match, Abahani lost 2-4 at home to Muktijoddha SKC.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Abahani home games with this odds we find eleven games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in ten wins, zero draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, five matches were won by at least two goals.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Abahani as they are travelling to their away game against Bashundhara Kings in the Premier League. That match is three days after this one.

A decent goal production from Abahani in their home games so far, with 18 goals from 10 league matches. Abahani have conceded 15 from these games.

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Arambagh form and stats

Arambagh have only collected 2 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 0-2-7 (9 played).

Arambagh might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Sheikh Russel proved too strong as Arambagh slumped to a 0-3 defeat in front of their own fans at Mymensingh Stadium.

A 3-4 defeat away at Saif before that.

You'll want to know how Arambagh managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found four similar matches resulting in zero away wins, zero draws and four home wins.

A quick return to home after this game, as Arambagh are hosting Bashundhara Kings in the Premier League only three days away.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Arambagh have scored 11 goals in 9 league games away. The Arambagh defense is as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle, having conceded 32 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The parties have played each other before in this season, with the final score Arambagh - Abahani 0-4 entered in the official records. Last ten meetings between the teams: Abahani won ten, Arambagh won zero and zero draws. five games with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AbahaniK. Belfort
K. Belfort
11 goals
AbahaniF. Rodrigues de Sousa Filho
F. Rodrigues de Sousa Filho
7 goals
ArambaghN. Ucchash
N. Ucchash
6 goals

Abahani missing players

Arambagh missing players

Abahani Arambagh
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
19 10 4 Played P 3 9 18
10 5 3 Won W 0 0 1
7 3 0 Drew D 0 2 2
2 2 1 Lost L 3 7 15
43 18 10 Scored S 1 11 18
23 15 7 Conceded C 13 32 54
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
89% 80% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 78% 78%
58% 50% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 78% 78%
53% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 67% 56%
26% 30% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 56% 39%
63% 70% 75% BTTS BTTS 33% 56% 50%
37% 30% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 6%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 44% 50%
 
7.6 7.6 9.8 Corners for (avg) C F 2.3 1.7 2.3
3.7 3.7 3 Corners against (avg) C A 9.7 5.7 5.8
0.9 0.8 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 1.1 1
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.3 11.3 13.2 Shots (avg) S ( 4.7 4.4 4.1
5.4 5.1 6.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.3 1.4 1.6
42% 35% 37% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 50% 28%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Abahani have created more than twice as many corners as Arambagh.
  • Abahani have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Abahani have scored more than double the goals of Arambagh.
  • Abahani have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Abahani haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Arambagh have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Arambagh have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Arambagh have the most conceded goals (32) away in Premier League
  • Arambagh have the most conceded goals (54) in Premier League
  • Arambagh have the most conceded goals in the first half (22) in Premier League
  • Arambagh have the most conceded goals in the second half (28) in Premier League
  • Arambagh have the the worst goal difference (-21) away in Premier League
  • Arambagh have the the worst goal difference (-36) in Premier League
  • Arambagh have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Arambagh have yet to win a game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bashundhara Kings 19 17 1 1 52 9 9 8 0 1 25 5 10 9 1 0 27 4 43 52
2 Sheikh Jamal 18 11 6 1 43 24 9 6 3 0 23 10 9 5 3 1 20 14 19 39
3 Abahani 19 10 7 2 43 23 10 5 3 2 18 15 9 5 4 0 25 8 20 37
4 Abahani Chittagong 19 10 4 5 29 22 9 3 2 4 11 12 10 7 2 1 18 10 7 34
5 Mohammedan Dhaka 19 9 6 4 28 20 9 6 1 2 15 7 10 3 5 2 13 13 8 33
6 Sheikh Russel 19 9 3 7 27 20 9 5 2 2 17 7 10 4 1 5 10 13 7 30
7 Saif 18 9 2 7 35 29 10 5 1 4 21 15 8 4 1 3 14 14 6 29
8 Bangladesh Police 18 4 7 7 20 29 9 1 6 2 12 15 9 3 1 5 8 14 -9 19
9 Rahmatgonj MFS 19 4 6 9 17 28 9 2 3 4 7 15 10 2 3 5 10 13 -11 18
10 Baridhara 19 3 7 9 29 42 9 2 4 3 17 23 10 1 3 6 12 19 -13 16
11 Muktijoddha SKC 19 3 6 10 13 28 10 1 4 5 5 13 9 2 2 5 8 15 -15 15
12 Brothers Union 18 1 3 14 15 41 10 1 1 8 9 23 8 0 2 6 6 18 -26 6
13 Arambagh 18 1 2 15 18 54 9 1 0 8 7 22 9 0 2 7 11 32 -36 5

Read more about Premier League

The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is the top level of football in this South Asian country. It was founded in 2007 as the B League, renamed Bangladesh League and then got its current name in 2012. It has 13 teams playing a season where each team play 26 fixtures to decide the final league table.