All the facts and stats for the CAF Champions League clash: Zanaco - Al Merreikh

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Competition: Africa CAF Champions League
Competition: Sat 23.October
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: National Heroes Stadium (20000 seats)

It's time to decide the outcome of the CAF Champions League 2nd Preliminary Round meeting between Zanaco and Al Merreikh. Get ready for the match with this full betting preview!

Both teams have had enough days rest since their previous effort on the pitch. Let's aim for an in-your-face game!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Al Merreikh have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 10-4-9 (win-draw-loss) from 23 matches.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 4900 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Zanaco form and stats

Zanaco have not come this way in the CAF Champions League without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Akonangui.

Zanaco have played 3 Super League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-1-1 (wins-draws-losses). 2W-0D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the CAF Champions League for Zanaco.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 321 minutes.

In their previous game, the manager K. Kaindu led his Zanaco to a defeat in the CAF Champions League match away at Al Merreikh. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at National Heroes Stadium.

Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Nkana.

Zanaco are traveling soon after this match as the Super League match at Forest Rangers awaits in four days.

Zanaco have scored 1 goal here in 3 league matches, a depressing statistic. Zanaco have only conceded 2 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Al Merreikh form and stats

The traveling awayteam has defeated Express FC in order to reach 2nd preliminary round of CAF Champions League. Al Merreikh's mission in CAF Champions League last season failed in the group stage.

The away performances of Al Merreikh have been very solid so far with 11 wins, 3 draws and 0 defeats in the Sudan Premier League. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. When we have look at the CAF Champions League statistics, we find 2W-0D-1L. This is both home and away. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Al Ahly Shendi game have they lost an away game, meaning Al Merreikh has taken points from 20 away matches in a row.

The supporters enjoyed Merreikh's previous game versus Zanaco, a CAF Champions League 3-0 win played at home.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Merreikh El-Fasher at their stadium, the result 2-0.

The Merreikh manager I. Hussein Al-Hussein has got the team scoring on the road, with 28 away goals in 14 league matches. Merreikh are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 6 away goals have been conceded so far.

Head 2 Head

The latest H2H match ended Al Merreikh - Zanaco 3-0, earlier this season.

Zanaco missing players

Al Merreikh missing players

Zanaco Al Merreikh
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
25 13   Played P   11 25
10 6   Won W   7 15
7 4   Drew D   1 5
8 3   Lost L   3 5
25 12   Scored S   19 42
27 13   Conceded C   11 22
88% 85%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   91% 92%
76% 62%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   91% 84%
36% 38%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   55% 52%
8% 8%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   18% 20%
0% 0%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   9% 4%
44% 46%   BTTS BTTS   36% 36%
36% 38%   Clean Sheets C S   55% 56%
32% 31%   Failed to Score F T   18% 16%
 
3.6 3.2   Corners for (avg) C F   6 6.4
4.1 2.1   Corners against (avg) C A   2 2.5
1.7 1.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1 1
2 2   Red cards R C   1 1
 
9.3 9.9   Shots (avg) S (   11.2 10.4
3.2 3.4   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.7 2.8
29% 24%   Goal Efficiency G E   56% 65%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Green Buffaloes 7 6 1 0 15 3 4 3 1 0 10 2 3 3 0 0 5 1 12 19
2 Buildcon 7 3 3 1 6 4 4 1 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 0 5 3 2 12
3 Nkwazi 7 3 3 1 6 4 3 0 2 1 1 2 4 3 1 0 5 2 2 12
4 Kafue Celtic 7 3 2 2 6 6 4 2 1 1 4 2 3 1 1 1 2 4 0 11
5 Nkana 7 3 1 3 6 6 4 2 0 2 4 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 0 10
6 Forest Rangers 6 2 3 1 9 6 3 1 1 1 5 3 3 1 2 0 4 3 3 9
7 ZESCO United 5 3 0 2 6 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 4 2 0 2 4 3 3 9
8 Konkola Blades 7 2 3 2 5 4 4 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 3 2 1 9
9 Indeni 7 2 3 2 6 11 3 0 2 1 1 3 4 2 1 1 5 8 -5 9
10 Lusaka Dynamos 7 1 5 1 3 3 3 1 2 0 2 1 4 0 3 1 1 2 0 8
11 Kansanshi Dynamos 5 2 1 2 5 3 2 1 0 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 3 1 2 7
12 Kabwe Warriors 7 2 1 4 5 8 3 1 0 2 2 4 4 1 1 2 3 4 -3 7
13 Chambishi 7 1 4 2 2 5 3 0 2 1 1 3 4 1 2 1 1 2 -3 7
14 Green Eagles 7 1 3 3 4 6 4 0 2 2 2 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 -2 6
15 Prison Leopards 6 1 2 3 3 5 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 0 1 2 0 2 -2 5
16 Power Dynamos 7 1 2 4 4 7 4 1 1 2 3 4 3 0 1 2 1 3 -3 5
17 Zanaco 5 1 2 2 1 4 3 1 1 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 0 2 -3 5
18 Red Arrows 5 1 1 3 3 7 3 1 0 2 2 5 2 0 1 1 1 2 -4 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 Al Hilal Omdurman 30 24 5 1 75 12 15 12 2 1 43 5 15 12 3 0 32 7 63 77
2 Al Merreikh 30 20 8 2 50 16 16 9 5 2 22 10 14 11 3 0 28 6 34 68
3 Hay Al Wadi 30 12 11 7 35 25 15 6 4 5 16 13 15 6 7 2 19 12 10 47
4 Hay Al Arab 30 11 9 10 26 32 15 6 4 5 13 16 15 5 5 5 13 16 -6 42
5 Al Khartoum 30 11 8 11 34 34 15 6 4 5 20 16 15 5 4 6 14 18 0 41
6 Hilal Obayed 30 10 11 9 25 32 15 4 9 2 14 14 15 6 2 7 11 18 -7 41
7 Alamal Atbara 30 10 9 11 25 29 15 5 5 5 9 12 15 5 4 6 16 17 -4 39
8 Al-Ahly Merowe 30 9 11 10 24 28 15 6 5 4 14 13 15 3 6 6 10 15 -4 38
9 Hilal El-Fasher 30 10 8 12 35 41 14 5 3 6 18 21 16 5 5 6 17 20 -6 38
10 Al Hilal Port Sudan 30 10 5 15 27 33 15 5 1 9 10 18 15 5 4 6 17 15 -6 35
11 Al Shorta 30 8 11 11 26 36 14 2 5 7 10 19 16 6 6 4 16 17 -10 35
12 Al Ahly Shendi 30 9 7 14 21 27 16 5 3 8 11 15 14 4 4 6 10 12 -6 34
13 Tuti 30 8 10 12 26 39 15 3 6 6 13 20 15 5 4 6 13 19 -13 34
14 Al Ahli Khartoum 30 7 11 12 17 28 15 5 5 5 12 14 15 2 6 7 5 14 -11 32
15 Al Hilal Kadougli 30 5 10 15 22 39 15 2 5 8 9 19 15 3 5 7 13 20 -17 25
16 Merreikh El-Fasher 30 6 6 18 15 32 15 2 4 9 7 17 15 4 2 9 8 15 -17 24