Liberty Professionals have some catching up to do from their 17th, and the job starts against Karela. Read more!
- Liberty Professionals have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Karela have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Professionals are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. For Karela most of the excitement is over as they will neither be promoted or relegated this season.
Liberty Professionals form and stats
Overall Premier League stats at home this season for Liberty Professionals are 6-6-3 (wins-draw-losses).
A strong away win for Professionals against Inter Allies the last match.
Ahead of that match, Professionals lost 1-5 at home to Ashanti Gold.Professionals has scored 21 league goals at home this season, in 15 matches. Liberty Professionals's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Karela form and stats
Karela have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 1-7-7 (15 played). Karela has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Home advantage was not enough for Karela in their previous game, as they lost their Premier League-match, hosting Ebusua Dwarfs, 1-4.
Prior to that match, the Karela manager faced defeat when travelling to Asante Kotoko and losing 1-2.The attacking power of Karela when travelling is not overwhelming with 11 goals scored from 15 league matches away. 20 goals have been conceded by Karela in these games.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Karela - Professionals 2-0 earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last three meetings: two - zero - one (Professionals wins - draws - Karela wins). As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Liberty Professionals missing players
Karela missing players
| Liberty Professionals | Karela | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 15 | 5 | Played | P | 5 | 15 | 31 |
| 9 | 6 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 12 |
| 8 | 6 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 14 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| 29 | 21 | 4 | Scored | S | 4 | 11 | 39 |
| 42 | 16 | 8 | Conceded | C | 8 | 20 | 34 |
| 90% | 87% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 90% |
| 71% | 73% | 60% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 81% |
| 32% | 40% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 20% | 40% | 39% |
| 19% | 27% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 20% | 19% |
| 13% | 13% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 39% | 53% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 80% | 60% | 58% |
| 32% | 40% | 40% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 29% |
| 39% | 20% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 40% | 23% |
| 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0.3 | 3 | 3.8 |
| 3.4 | 3.1 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
| 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.1 | 10.1 | 11.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 5 | 5.4 | 10 |
| 3.2 | 3.8 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.3 | 1.5 | 3.8 |
| 33% | 37% | 19% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 38% | 30% |
- Karela have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Karela have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Liberty Professionals 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 | Hearts of Oak | 31 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 43 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 33 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 23 | 59 |
| 2 | Asante Kotoko | 31 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 35 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 17 | 56 |
| 3 | Great Olympics | 31 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 34 | 29 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 21 | 5 | 49 |
| 4 | Dreams | 31 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 44 | 32 | 16 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 12 | 48 |
| 5 | Medeama | 31 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 33 | 29 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 21 | 4 | 48 |
| 6 | WAFA | 31 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 42 | 38 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 17 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 21 | 4 | 47 |
| 7 | Karela | 31 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 39 | 34 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 5 | 46 |
| 8 | Aduana Stars | 31 | 13 | 7 | 11 | 37 | 39 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 24 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 31 | -2 | 46 |
| 9 | Ashanti Gold | 31 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 43 | 35 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 25 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 8 | 41 |
| 10 | Wa All Stars | 31 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 30 | 30 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 19 | 0 | 38 |
| 11 | Bechem United | 31 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 34 | 43 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 25 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 33 | -9 | 38 |
| 12 | Ebusua Dwarfs | 31 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 37 | 40 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 25 | -3 | 37 |
| 13 | Berekum Chelsea | 31 | 10 | 7 | 14 | 35 | 44 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 27 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 33 | -9 | 37 |
| 14 | Eleven Wonders | 31 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 27 | 34 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 22 | -7 | 36 |
| 15 | King Faisal | 31 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 29 | 44 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 32 | -15 | 36 |
| 16 | Elmina Sharks | 31 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 29 | 42 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 29 | -13 | 35 |
| 17 | Liberty Professionals | 31 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 29 | 42 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 26 | -13 | 35 |
| 18 | Inter Allies | 31 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 26 | 33 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 14 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 19 | -7 | 26 |