League round two of the Premier League campaign and the contenders have done their adjustments after the first fixture. Here's our Sheikh Russel - Abahani Chittagong match guide:
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Sheikh Russel form and stats
The season before, Sheikh Russel's league results were 11 wins, 3 draws and 10 losses, results that produced 7th place in the Premier League. Over these 24 matches they scored 36 goals and gave away 31. Playing at home in the former season Sheikh Russel managed 6-2-4 (win-draw-lost) with 24 goals and 13 conceded.
An away draw last time out for Sheikh Russel, facing Mohammedan Dhaka in a game that ended 1-1.
There will be little rest for Sheikh Russel after this match as they are travelling to Saif for a Premier League game in only four days.
Abahani Chittagong form and stats
Let's have a look at how Abahani Chittagong performed last season in the Premier League: They landed a 5th position in the league table after playing out 13 victories, 5 draws and 6 defeats. In total they scored 38 and conceded 28 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 8 - drew 3 and lost 1 with 22/13 goals scored/conceded.
The club members enjoyed Chittagong's previous match versus Rahmatgonj MFS (placed 10th), a 2-1 win played at home.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Abahani Chittagong in our archives, and the results are: four wins for Abahani Chittagong, two draws and two defeats.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - one - seven (Sheikh Russel wins - draws - Abahani Chittagong wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Sheikh Russel missing players
Abahani Chittagong missing players
| Sheikh Russel | Abahani Chittagong | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 20 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Sheikh Russel | Last season | Abahani Chittagong | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 24 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 24 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Won | W | 8 | 13 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | ||
| 36 | 24 | Scored | S | 22 | 38 | ||
| 31 | 13 | Conceded | C | 13 | 28 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 67% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 67% | ||
| 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 42% | ||
| 29% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 29% | ||
| 21% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 17% | ||
| 38% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 58% | 50% | ||
| 42% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 42% | 33% | ||
| 25% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | ||
| 5 | 3.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.6 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 4.9 | ||
| 0.9 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9.9 | 10.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.1 | 8 | ||
| 4.7 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 3.9 | ||
| 27% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 34% | ||
| 9.6 | 8.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.5 | 7.5 | ||
| 4.4 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sheikh Jamal | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Abahani | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Abahani Chittagong | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Swadhinata KS | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Saif | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Bashundhara Kings | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Mohammedan Dhaka | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Sheikh Russel | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Bangladesh Police | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 10 | Rahmatgonj MFS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 11 | Baridhara | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Muktijoddha SKC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 24 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 60 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 4 | 50 | 65 |
| 2 | Sheikh Jamal | 24 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 53 | 28 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 17 | 25 | 52 |
| 3 | Abahani | 24 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 65 | 29 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 29 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 36 | 12 | 36 | 47 |
| 4 | Saif | 24 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 48 | 37 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 20 | 11 | 44 |
| 5 | Abahani Chittagong | 24 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 38 | 28 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 10 | 44 |
| 6 | Mohammedan Dhaka | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 36 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 11 | 43 |
| 7 | Sheikh Russel | 24 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 36 | 31 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 5 | 36 |
| 8 | Rahmatgonj MFS | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 31 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 14 | -8 | 25 |
| 9 | Bangladesh Police | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 26 | 39 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 22 | -13 | 25 |
| 10 | Muktijoddha SKC | 24 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 18 | 34 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 19 | -16 | 19 |
| 11 | Baridhara | 24 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 33 | 63 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 39 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 24 | -30 | 19 |
| 12 | Arambagh | 24 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 20 | 66 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 24 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 42 | -46 | 8 |
| 13 | Brothers Union | 24 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 51 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 26 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 25 | -35 | 7 |
