Bylis Ballsh will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind Kukësi.
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.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Kukësi 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 18-7-14 (win-draw-loss) from 39 matches.
Bylis Ballsh form and stats
21 points is a decent return from 10 Superliga games here at Stadiumi Adush Muça for Bylis Ballsh. The data says 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss.
The fans are hoping that Bylis Ballsh will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 2-3 away loss in the Albanian Cup game against Laçi (placed 4th). Preceding that game was the away draw at Skenderbeu Korce that finished 1-1.
The defeat against Laçi was especially painful as the deciding goal against was scored four minutes into stoppage time (by R. Xhixha).
Bylis Ballsh have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadiumi Adush Muça with 18 goals in 10 league matches. Bylis Ballsh are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadiumi Adush Muça in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 10 matches.
Kukësi form and stats
The visitors, who have the the best goal difference (+19) in Superliga, are W4-D3-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Superliga.
A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Laçi.
Kukësi find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 13 goals from 10 away fixtures in the league. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (7 so far).
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Kukësi - Bylis Ballsh 2-1 earlier this season. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: two wins for Bylis Ballsh, three draws and five wins for Kukësi. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Bylis Ballsh missing players
Kukësi missing players
| Bylis Ballsh | Kukësi | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 21 |
| 8 | 6 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 29 | 18 | 5 | Scored | S | 0 | 13 | 34 |
| 19 | 8 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 15 |
| 86% | 80% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 70% | 86% |
| 62% | 60% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 62% |
| 48% | 60% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 52% |
| 24% | 40% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 24% |
| 10% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 10% | 10% |
| 52% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 40% | 52% |
| 38% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 38% |
| 24% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 50% | 24% |
| 4.5 | 5.1 | 2.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 6.3 | 4.9 |
| 3.5 | 2.9 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 2.8 | 3.4 |
| 3.5 | 2.9 | 3.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.5 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 97 | 41 | 7 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 45 | 145 |
| 39 | 19 | 6 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 18 | 57 |
| 26% | 32% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 44% |
- Bylis Ballsh have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Bylis Ballsh have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Kukësi has the fewest conceded goals (15)
- Kukësi has the fewest conceded goals (7) away
- Kukësi has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6)
- Kukësi has the most scored goals in the second half (22)
- Kukësi has the the best goal difference (+19)
- Kukësi has the the best goal difference (+6) away
- Kukësi have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Kukësi have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
- Kukësi have won significantly more corners away than at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kukësi | 21 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 34 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 19 | 41 |
| 2 | Tirana | 21 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 22 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 15 | 40 |
| 3 | Partizani Tirana | 21 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 34 |
| 4 | Laçi | 21 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 30 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 32 |
| 5 | Bylis Ballsh | 21 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 29 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 32 |
| 6 | Teuta Durrës | 21 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 32 |
| 7 | Vllaznia Shkodër | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 28 |
| 8 | Skenderbeu Korce | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 21 | 31 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 19 | -10 | 28 |
| 9 | Luftëtari Gjirokastër | 21 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 38 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 26 | -27 | 13 |
| 10 | Flamurtari | 21 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 44 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 21 | -30 | 6 |