Premier League match preview: Team BJMC believed to be the weaker party when Abahani pays a visit

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Competition: Bangladesh Premier League
Date: Mon 01.July
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Shahid Bulu Stadium (10000 seats)

Struggling Team BJMC will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Abahani in the upcoming league round. It’s 13th vs 2nd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Team BJMC and Abahani.

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Team BJMC form and stats

With 0 wins, 3 draws and 5 defeats from their home games, Team BJMC, who have the fewest scored goals (6) in Premier League, are certainly not brimming with confidence. Team BJMC are slowly digging their own grave here at Shahid Bulu Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home game in nine attempts. The last victory here came in the Saif match.

The Team BJMC crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Abahani here at Shahid Bulu Stadium in a Premier League match. A strong away win before that one, visiting Sheikh Jamal and winning 2-1.

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Team BJMC had similar winning odds as today, and found two games. In these, the hosts won 0, drew 0 and lost 2. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that Team BJMC lost 0 similar games by at least two goals.

Team BJMC has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches: 2 goals from 8 games. Team BJMC have conceded 8 in these home matches.

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Abahani form and stats

Abahani's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Abahani, who have the most scored goals (39) in Premier League, collect 18 points from their 8 away matches. 6 victories and 0 draws have created these points (and only 2 defeats). Abahani have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of five victories in a row regardless of arena. A great winning streak in away games for Abahani as they have managed to win four matches in a row as the visitors. Not since the Chennaiyin have they travelled home without three points.

Abahani play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 2-1 victory visiting Team BJMC. Prior to that result Abahani won their away game at Minerva Punjab in the AFC Cup. The scoreline was 1-0.

As mentioned earlier, Abahani will not be satisfied unless they get maximum points from this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 1 win (0 by two or more goals winning margin), 0 draws and 0 surprising defeats.

Abahani create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game on their own, having scored 20 goals in 8 travels. In the opposite end, Abahani have conceded 12 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Team BJMC - Abahani 1-2 earlier this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Team BJMC won 0 games, 1 match ended with a draw and Abahani has 9 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 5 / 5

Top Goalscorers

S. Nwadialu
14 goals / 3 assists
N. Newaj Jibon
11 goals / 6 assists

Team BJMC missing players

Abahani missing players

Team BJMC Abahani
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs low Away Total
17 9 3 Played 2 9 17
1 0 0 Won 2 7 14
5 3 1 Drew 0 0 0
11 6 2 Lost 0 2 3
7 3 0 Scored 7 22 41
21 10 2 Conceded 1 13 17
76% 78% 67% Over 0.5 100% 100% 100%
53% 44% 0% Over 1.5 100% 100% 88%
35% 22% 0% Over 2.5 50% 78% 65%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 50% 44% 35%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 50% 33% 24%
35% 33% 0% BTTS 50% 67% 47%
24% 22% 33% Clean Sheets 50% 11% 35%
65% 67% 100% Failed To Score 0% 22% 18%
 
2.3 2.7 0 Corners For (avg) 7 7.2 6.1
5.3 4.2 0 Corners Against (avg) 3 3 3
1.6 1.7 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 1 0.5 1.3
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Abahani have created more than twice as many corners as Team BJMC.
  • Abahani have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Abahani have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Abahani have scored more than double the goals of Team BJMC.
  • Abahani have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Abahani haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Abahani's away matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Team BJMC have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Team BJMC have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Team BJMC have yet to win a game at home.

Team BJMC
10-05-19 PL Team BJMC 1 - 2 Mohammedan Dhaka
16-05-19 PL Saif 3 - 0 Team BJMC
21-05-19 PL Team BJMC 1 - 1 Abahani Chittagong
15-06-19 PL Sheikh Jamal 1 - 2 Team BJMC
01-07-19 PL Team BJMC 1 - 2 Abahani
05-07-19 PL Team BJMC 10:00 NoFeL Sporting Club
09-07-19 PL Bashundhara Kings 10:00 Team BJMC
15-07-19 PL Team BJMC 10:00 Muktijoddha SKC
20-07-19 PL Rahmatgonj MFS 13:00 Team BJMC
30-07-19 PL Team BJMC 10:00 Arambagh
Abahani
23-05-19 PL Muktijoddha SKC 1 - 4 Abahani
15-06-19 PL Abahani 5 - 2 Rahmatgonj MFS
19-06-19 AFC Abahani 5 - 0 Manang Marshyangdi
26-06-19 AFC Minerva Punjab 0 - 1 Abahani
01-07-19 PL Team BJMC 1 - 2 Abahani
05-07-19 PL Abahani 13:00 Arambagh
10-07-19 PL Brothers Union 13:00 Abahani
14-07-19 PL Abahani 13:00 Sheikh Russel
18-07-19 PL Mohammedan Dhaka 13:00 Abahani
23-07-19 PL Abahani 10:00 Saif

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Bashundhara Kings 15 14 1 0 33 8 8 8 0 0 19 5 7 6 1 0 14 3 25 43
2 Abahani 16 13 0 3 39 16 8 7 0 1 19 4 8 6 0 2 20 12 23 39
3 Sheikh Russel 14 10 3 1 21 6 7 6 1 0 13 2 7 4 2 1 8 4 15 33
4 Saif 15 9 3 3 23 13 7 3 2 2 8 6 8 6 1 1 15 7 10 30
5 Arambagh 15 6 2 7 18 17 9 5 1 3 13 8 6 1 1 4 5 9 1 20
6 Abahani Chittagong 15 4 6 5 14 15 6 2 3 1 5 4 9 2 3 4 9 11 -1 18
7 Sheikh Jamal 16 4 6 6 18 20 8 1 3 4 9 13 8 3 3 2 9 7 -2 18
8 Muktijoddha SKC 15 4 4 7 18 22 8 3 1 4 12 14 7 1 3 3 6 8 -4 16
9 Rahmatgonj MFS 16 3 6 7 18 31 9 1 4 4 10 20 7 2 2 3 8 11 -13 15
10 Mohammedan Dhaka 15 3 4 8 14 27 6 2 1 3 6 9 9 1 3 5 8 18 -13 13
11 NoFeL Sporting Club 14 2 3 9 7 20 8 2 2 4 4 10 6 0 1 5 3 10 -13 9
12 Brothers Union 14 2 3 9 11 26 6 0 2 4 6 11 8 2 1 5 5 15 -15 9
13 Team BJMC 16 1 5 10 6 19 8 0 3 5 2 8 8 1 2 5 4 11 -13 8