The stage is set for Npfl and Sunshine Stars - Heartland. In this article you'll get statistics, results, numbercrunching, trends and news!
- Sunshine Stars is in the worst form (1-1-4)
- Heartland have the most conceded goals (23) in Npfl
Sunshine's stadium, Akure Township Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Heartland have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Heartland when playing on artifical turf; 0 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses from ten matches. They have scored 5 goals in these games and conceded 21.
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.
Sunshine Stars form and stats
Sunshine Stars are steadily winning Npfl games and points here at Akure Township Stadium. 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat is the summary from 7 games. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Sunshine Stars after consecutive victories at their own ground.
Sunshine Stars are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus MFM.
Ahead of that match, Sunshine won a home game hosting Wikki Tourist (2-1).Sunshine Stars are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found five matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won three, drew one and lost one.
There will be little rest for Sunshine Stars after this match as they are travelling to Remo Stars for a Npfl game in only four days.
Sunshine have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Akure Township Stadium with 11 goals in 7 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Sunshine Stars have only let in 2 goals at home.
Heartland form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Heartland so far with only 2 points returning home. The records show 0-2-5 (win-draw-lose). Visiting Heartland has seen their last two away games both end with a tied score and one point each.
Heartland go into this game after a win, the home game against Enyimba that ended 1-0.
A 1-1 draw at Katsina United's stadium before that.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Heartland played away with similar odds. This revealed eight games. The visitors overcame the odds to win two times, two were draws and the home team won as expected four times.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Niger Tornadoes in just four days.
Goals are few and far between in Heartland's away league games. Only 2 goals from 7 travels. Heartland have conceded 15 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sunshine three wins, four draws and Heartland three victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Sunshine Stars missing players
Heartland missing players
| Sunshine Stars | Heartland | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 7 | 15 |
| 5 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 14 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| 9 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 15 | 23 |
| 80% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 86% | 93% |
| 40% | 57% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 71% | 53% |
| 27% | 43% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 57% | 40% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 29% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 20% | 14% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 27% |
| 47% | 71% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 33% |
| 53% | 29% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 71% | 47% |
| 3 | 2.2 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.2 | 3.8 |
| 4.8 | 2.5 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 3.8 |
| 2 | 1.8 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8.5 | 8 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6.8 | 10.6 |
| 3.2 | 3.8 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.8 | 3.8 |
| 34% | 60% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 9% | 20% |
| 9.7 | 4.5 | 4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 7 | 7.8 |
| 3 | 1.2 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.5 | 3 |
- Heartland have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Heartland have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Heartland have the most conceded goals (23) in Npfl
- Heartland have the the worst goal difference (-13) away in Npfl
- Heartland have yet to win a game away.
- Sunshine Stars have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sunshine Stars have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Sunshine Stars have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Heartland have scored away.
- Sunshine Stars have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Sunshine Stars is in the worst form (1-1-4)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rivers United | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 32 |
| 2 | Plateau United | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 31 |
| 3 | Remo Stars | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 26 |
| 4 | Enugu Rangers | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 24 |
| 5 | Kwara United | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 24 |
| 6 | Akwa United | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 23 |
| 7 | Wikki Tourist | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 23 |
| 8 | Enyimba | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | -1 | 21 |
| 9 | Sunshine Stars | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 10 | Gombe United | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| 11 | Nasarawa United | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 20 |
| 12 | Shooting Stars | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 19 |
| 13 | Lobi Stars | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 12 | -5 | 19 |
| 14 | Kano Pillars | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 11 | -5 | 18 |
| 15 | Abia Warriors | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 17 |
| 16 | Niger Tornadoes | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 11 | -5 | 16 |
| 17 | Heartland | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 15 | -13 | 16 |
| 18 | Akwa Starlets | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 16 | -9 | 15 |
| 19 | Katsina United | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 14 | -9 | 14 |
| 20 | MFM | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 14 | -13 | 14 |
