Premier League match preview: Bangladesh Police believed to be the weaker party when Abahani pays a visit

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Competition: Bangladesh Premier League
Competition: Fri 30.April
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)

Struggling Bangladesh Police will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Abahani in the upcoming league round. It’s 9th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Bangladesh Police have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Abahani have not yet lost a game away.

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Bangladesh Police form and stats

Bangladesh Police's results here in the Premier League have been very modest with 1 victory, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

The fans are hoping that Bangladesh Police will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-5 away loss in the Premier League game against Sheikh Russel (placed 5th). Preceding that match was a defeat to Saif (1-4).

As you see from the result above, Bangladesh Police suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one.

There will be little rest for Bangladesh after this match as they are travelling to Bashundhara Kings for a Premier League game in only four days.

A decent goal production from Bangladesh in their home games so far, with 9 goals from 6 league matches. Bangladesh Police have conceded 12 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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Abahani form and stats

As the visiting team in Premier League matches, Abahani have produced an overall stat of 3-2-0 so far.

The supporters enjoyed Abahani's previous game versus Baridhara (placed 10th), a Premier League 2-1 win played at home. The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-4 defeat against Bashundhara Kings.

A quick return to home after this game, as Abahani are hosting Brothers Union in the Premier League only four days away.

Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 13 goals in 5 league games away this season. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (4 so far).

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Abahani - Bangladesh 1-0 played earlier this season. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's zero Bangladesh victories, zero draws and two Abahani wins. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

AbahaniK. Belfort
K. Belfort
5 goals
BangladeshB. Famoussa
B. Famoussa
4 goals

Bangladesh Police missing players

Abahani missing players

Bangladesh Police Abahani
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
12 6 3 Played P 3 5 12
3 1 0 Won W 3 3 7
3 3 1 Drew D 0 2 4
6 2 2 Lost L 0 0 1
14 9 5 Scored S 10 13 23
22 12 9 Conceded C 1 4 12
92% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
58% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 83%
58% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 60% 50%
42% 50% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 60% 42%
33% 50% 67% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 20% 17%
50% 67% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 60% 58%
17% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 40% 42%
42% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1 1 0.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 0.8 0.8
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.2 8.8 9 Shots (avg) S ( 10 7.6 8.8
2.9 3 3.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.7 4.6 4.2
38% 50% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 59% 57% 45%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Abahani have not yet lost a game away.
  • Abahani have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Abahani have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Abahani have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Abahani haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Abahani's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Bangladesh Police have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than 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 12 11 1 0 32 5 6 6 0 0 20 2 6 5 1 0 12 3 27 34
2 Sheikh Jamal 12 7 5 0 31 16 6 4 2 0 17 6 6 3 3 0 14 10 15 26
3 Abahani 12 7 4 1 23 12 7 4 2 1 10 8 5 3 2 0 13 4 11 25
4 Saif 12 7 1 4 23 16 7 3 1 3 12 9 5 4 0 1 11 7 7 22
5 Sheikh Russel 12 6 2 4 20 15 6 4 2 0 14 3 6 2 0 4 6 12 5 20
6 Mohammedan Dhaka 12 5 4 3 17 14 5 3 1 1 8 4 7 2 3 2 9 10 3 19
7 Abahani Chittagong 12 5 4 3 14 11 6 2 2 2 5 5 6 3 2 1 9 6 3 19
8 Rahmatgonj MFS 12 3 4 5 12 14 6 2 1 3 6 8 6 1 3 2 6 6 -2 13
9 Bangladesh Police 12 3 3 6 14 22 6 1 3 2 9 12 6 2 0 4 5 10 -8 12
10 Baridhara 12 1 6 5 19 25 5 1 4 0 11 10 7 0 2 5 8 15 -6 9
11 Muktijoddha SKC 12 2 3 7 7 17 6 1 1 4 5 10 6 1 2 3 2 7 -10 9
12 Brothers Union 12 1 2 9 12 25 6 1 1 4 8 12 6 0 1 5 4 13 -13 5
13 Arambagh 12 0 1 11 11 43 6 0 0 6 4 17 6 0 1 5 7 26 -32 1

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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.