Struggling Luftëtari Gjirokastër will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Kukësi in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
Luftëtari Gjirokastër and Kukësi should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Luftëtari Gjirokastër's stadium, Stadiumi Gjirokastra, has a grass surface. Kukësi have artifical turf 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 Kukësi when playing on grass; 17 wins, 8 draws and 15 losses from 40 matches. They have scored 48 goals in these games and conceded 43.
Luftëtari Gjirokastër have had a bad season and will be relegated from Superliga. Kukësi are still fighting for the big positions at the top of the table.
Luftëtari Gjirokastër form and stats
Luftëtari Gjirokastër's results here at Stadiumi Gjirokastra in the Superliga have been very modest with 2 victories, 5 draws and 10 defeats. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 19 attempts. With nine home Superliga games in a row without a win, the Gjirokastër fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Skënderbeu Korçë game long ago, can be stopped today.
Stress levels are on the rise for Gjirokastër's attacking players as they have now played 185 minutes without scoring in a league game. A. Mehmetllari was their last goal scorer.
Before that game, the home loss against Skënderbeu Korçë with the scoreline 0-1.
The lack of attacking qualities in Gjirokastër means that they have only scored 8 goals in 17 league home games, less than half a goal per match. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Gjirokastër defense is not exactly impregnable. 28 goals conceded from 17 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Kukësi form and stats
6-5-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Kukësi in their Superliga matches away.
G. Cooper was the last player to score for the away team. Kukësi haven't scored a league goal in the last 235 minutes.
Kukësi's last game was the home draw against Skënderbeu Korçë (0-0). It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Vllaznia Shkodër wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.
Kukësi have scored 22 goals on their travels this season, from 17 away games in the league. Kukësi have conceded 17 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Kukësi - Luftëtari Gjirokastër 2-1. Numbers for the last ten meetings between these two teams are: three wins for Gjirokastër, two draws and five wins for Kukësi. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.Top Goalscorers
  V. Shkurtaj 7 goals |
Luftëtari Gjirokastër missing players
Kukësi missing players
| Luftëtari Gjirokastër | Kukësi | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 35 | 17 | 4 | Played | P | 6 | 17 | 35 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 6 | 18 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 25 | 10 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 17 | 8 | 1 | Scored | S | 11 | 22 | 54 |
| 81 | 28 | 11 | Conceded | C | 6 | 17 | 29 |
| 91% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 82% | 86% |
| 77% | 65% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 83% | 65% | 66% |
| 43% | 29% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 53% | 54% |
| 29% | 12% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 24% | 23% |
| 17% | 12% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 6% | 9% |
| 40% | 29% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 53% | 54% |
| 11% | 18% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 17% | 24% | 34% |
| 57% | 65% | 75% | Failed to Score | F T | 17% | 41% | 26% |
| 3.3 | 3.8 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
| 6.8 | 5.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4 | 3.7 |
| 2 | 2.5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 104 | 31 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 39 | 89 | 266 |
| 44 | 15 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 16 | 31 | 103 |
| 18% | 7% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 56% | 52% | 42% |
- Kukësi has the fewest conceded goals (17) away
- Kukësi has the fewest conceded goals (29)
- Kukësi has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (10)
- Kukësi has the most matches over the total-line (14)
- Kukësi have scored more than double the goals of Luftëtari Gjirokastër.
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër has the fewest scored goals (17)
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër has the fewest scored goals (8) at home
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër has the fewest scored goals in the first half (4)
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër has the fewest scored goals in the second half (13)
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër has the most conceded goals (81)
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër has the most conceded goals in the first half (38)
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër has the the worst goal difference (-20) at home
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër has the the worst goal difference (-64)
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Luftëtari Gjirokastër is in the worst form (0-0-6)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Tirana | 35 | 21 | 6 | 8 | 66 | 34 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 34 | 14 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 20 | 32 | 69 |
| 2 | Kukësi | 35 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 54 | 29 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 32 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 17 | 25 | 63 |
| 3 | Laçi | 35 | 18 | 7 | 10 | 58 | 32 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 37 | 14 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 18 | 26 | 61 |
| 4 | Teuta Durrës | 35 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 39 | 31 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 23 | 8 | 57 |
| 5 | Skënderbeu Korçë | 35 | 16 | 7 | 12 | 38 | 42 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 23 | -4 | 55 |
| 6 | Partizani Tirana | 35 | 15 | 8 | 12 | 50 | 36 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 15 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 21 | 14 | 53 |
| 7 | Bylis Ballsh | 35 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 45 | 37 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 16 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 21 | 8 | 50 |
| 8 | Vllaznia Shkodër | 35 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 35 | 40 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 25 | -5 | 45 |
| 9 | Flamurtari | 35 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 31 | 71 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 26 | 41 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 30 | -40 | 14 |
| 10 | Luftëtari Gjirokastër | 35 | 2 | 8 | 25 | 17 | 81 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 28 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 53 | -64 | 14 |