It's CAF Champions League time and the hopeful contenders are Vipers and TP Mazembe

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Competition: Africa CAF Champions League
Competition: Sun 09.October
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: St. Mary's Stadium (3000 seats)

Vipers host the first leg in this deciding CAF Champions League 2nd Preliminary Round game. TP Mazembe will try their very best to bring a solid result back to Stade du TP Mazembe before the return leg in 6 days.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for TP Mazembe, who are travelling more than 2200 kilometers to play this game.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Vipers form and stats

Vipers have reached this CAF Champions League stage through battling and winning against Olympique Real. Last season, Vipers's CAF Champions League journey ended in the preliminary round against Al Hilal Omdurman.

0-1-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier League numbers at home for Vipers so far this season.

The Vipers goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 216 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.

Vipers drew their last game, also a home match. Bright Stars was the opponent, 0-0 the score.

Preceding that game, a home win hosting Olympique Real in the CAF Champions League.

At St. Mary's Stadium, Vipers has the goal stats of 0-0 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.

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TP Mazembe form and stats

Mazembe was sent out of CAF Champions League in the 2nd preliminary round last season, when AmaZulu turned out to be too strong.

The away performances of TP Mazembe have been very solid so far with 8 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats in the Super Ligue. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue.

274 minutes! That's how long the TP Mazembe goalkeeper Ibrahim Mounkoro and his defense have shut out their league opponents.

TP Mazembe play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-0 victory visiting Motema Pembe.

Prior to that match, a home win 4-0 against RCK in the Super Ligue.

Mazembe are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 19 times in 10 away games so far. TP Mazembe are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only {2 away goals} have been conceded so far.

Head 2 Head

Vipers missing players

TP Mazembe missing players

Vipers TP Mazembe
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 13   Played P   13 25
21 11   Won W   6 17
3 1   Drew D   5 6
1 1   Lost L   2 2
58 31   Scored S   17 39
12 5   Conceded C   11 12
92% 92%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   77% 88%
88% 85%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   54% 56%
68% 62%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   46% 36%
28% 31%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   31% 20%
4% 8%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   8% 4%
40% 23%   BTTS BTTS   31% 20%
60% 77%   Clean Sheets C S   62% 76%
8% 8%   Failed to Score F T   31% 16%
 
4.8 5.4   Corners for (avg) C F   5.8 6.8
1.6 1.1   Corners against (avg) C A   6 3.5
1.4 1.3   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.8 1.2
0 0   Red cards R C   1 1
 
11.6 10.6   Shots (avg) S (   9 10.4
4.5 4.2   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3 3.5
48% 47%   Goal Efficiency G E   33% 34%
 
7.2 5.7   Shots against (avg) S A   11.4 7.4
2.5 2.7   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   3 2.5

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 BUL 2 2 0 0 8 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 5 0 7 6
2 Maroons 2 1 1 0 5 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 5 4
3 SC Villa 2 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 4
4 Express FC 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 4
5 Arua Hill 1 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
6 KCCA 2 1 0 1 4 5 1 1 0 0 3 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 -1 3
7 Jinja SSS 2 1 0 1 2 5 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 -3 3
8 Bright Stars 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
9 Vipers 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10 URA 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 1
11 UPDF 2 0 1 1 2 4 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 1
12 Onduparaka 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
13 Wakiso Giants 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 -1 0
14 Gadafi 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -2 0
15 Bukedea 2 0 0 2 0 7 1 0 0 1 0 5 1 0 0 1 0 2 -7 0
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 TP Mazembe 19 16 3 0 40 3 9 8 1 0 21 1 10 8 2 0 19 2 37 51
2 Vita Club 19 15 3 1 44 13 9 9 0 0 26 3 10 6 3 1 18 10 31 48
3 Saint Eloi Lupopo 19 14 4 1 32 9 9 8 0 1 15 3 10 6 4 0 17 6 23 46
4 Maniema Union 18 10 6 2 25 10 8 4 3 1 10 2 10 6 3 1 15 8 15 36
5 Groupe Bazano 19 9 5 5 24 16 10 4 3 3 16 10 9 5 2 2 8 6 8 32
6 Don Bosco 19 8 8 3 20 15 9 4 4 1 11 7 10 4 4 2 9 8 5 32
7 Motema Pembe 18 8 5 5 23 14 9 4 2 3 9 9 9 4 3 2 14 5 9 29
8 AC Rangers 19 8 5 6 18 16 10 6 1 3 12 8 9 2 4 3 6 8 2 29
9 Panda B5 19 6 6 7 17 19 10 4 3 3 12 7 9 2 3 4 5 12 -2 24
10 Etoile de Kivu 19 5 7 7 13 15 10 4 5 1 9 4 9 1 2 6 4 11 -2 22
11 Lubumbashi Sport 19 6 4 9 19 23 10 4 3 3 12 9 9 2 1 6 7 14 -4 22
12 Sanga Balende 19 5 6 8 17 25 10 5 2 3 12 11 9 0 4 5 5 14 -8 21
13 Dauphins Noirs 19 7 2 10 15 20 10 5 2 3 10 6 9 2 0 7 5 14 -5 20
14 Blessing 19 4 7 8 13 16 9 3 4 2 8 5 10 1 3 6 5 11 -3 19
15 Kuya Sport 19 4 7 8 18 28 10 3 3 4 13 15 9 1 4 4 5 13 -10 19
16 Renaissance 19 4 6 9 17 27 9 3 3 3 11 11 10 1 3 6 6 16 -10 18
17 Tshinkunku 19 2 9 8 11 26 8 0 4 4 3 14 11 2 5 4 8 12 -15 15
18 Simba 19 3 5 11 10 29 10 1 3 6 5 13 9 2 2 5 5 16 -19 14
19 JSK 19 2 2 15 6 36 10 1 2 7 3 17 9 1 0 8 3 19 -30 8
20 RCK 19 1 4 14 10 32 10 0 4 6 5 14 9 1 0 8 5 18 -22 7