It's game day two of the Premier League campaign and important points to play for. Don't miss our thorough preview of Dire Dawa Kenema-Ethiopia Bunna!
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!
Dire Dawa Kenema form and stats
The previous season, Dire Dawa Kenema's league results were 11 wins, 7 draws and 12 losses, leading to 10th position in the Premier League. Over these 30 matches they scored {42 goals} and let in 47. Playing as the host team in the previous season Dire Dawa Kenema delivered 4-4-7 (win-draw-lost) with {19 goals} and 26 conceded.
It's back home for Dire Dawa Kenema, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Hambericho Durame away with the result 2-1.
Before that, Kenema drew at home versus Kedus Giorgis.Ethiopia Bunna form and stats
Let's have a look at how Ethiopia Bunna performed last season in the Premier League: They landed a 4th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 13 draws and 7 defeats. In total they scored 38 and conceded {32 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 8 and lost 3 with 20/18 goals scored/conceded. Only one away game in the Premier League so far for Ethiopia Bunna and it resulted in three points. Last season the statistics for their away games were 4 victories, 8 draws and 3 losses from 15 travels.
The Ethiopia Bunna goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 294 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Two trips in a row for Ethiopia Bunna, whose manager Arage could celebrate last time after the win against Sidama Bunna.
Before that, Ethiopia travelled to Fasil Ketema and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Ethiopia Bunna has managed {1 goals} and let in 0 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: two - two - six (Dire Dawa Kenema wins - draws - Ethiopia Bunna wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.
Dire Dawa Kenema missing players
Ethiopia Bunna missing players
| Dire Dawa Kenema | Ethiopia Bunna | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dire Dawa Kenema | Last season | Ethiopia Bunna | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 30 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 11 | 4 | Won | W | 4 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 4 | Drew | D | 8 | 13 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Lost | L | 3 | 7 | ||
| 42 | 19 | Scored | S | 20 | 38 | ||
| 47 | 26 | Conceded | C | 18 | 32 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 73% | 83% | ||
| 90% | 87% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 63% | ||
| 70% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 43% | ||
| 33% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 27% | ||
| 3% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 13% | 10% | ||
| 77% | 80% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 57% | ||
| 13% | 7% | Clean Sheets | C S | 40% | 37% | ||
| 10% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 23% | ||
| 3.7 | 4.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 4.2 | ||
| 4 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3.6 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.4 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 7.5 | 6.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.4 | 6.1 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 2 | ||
| 50% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 61% | 66% | ||
| 7.7 | 6.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.1 | 6.9 | ||
| 3 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.1 | 2.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kedus Giorgis | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Ethiopian Medhin | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Mekelakeya | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | Dire Dawa Kenema | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Ethiopia Bunna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Welayta Dicha | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Awassa Kenema | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Fasil Ketema | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Ethiopia Nigd Bank | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Adama Kenema | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Bahardar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Hadiya Hosaena | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Hambericho Durame | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Sidama Bunna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 15 | Shashemene Kenema | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 16 | Wolkite Ketema | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Kedus Giorgis | 30 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 54 | 21 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 23 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 33 | 64 |
| 2 | Bahardar | 30 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 51 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 32 | 12 | 21 | 60 |
| 3 | Ethiopian Medhin | 30 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 50 | 42 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 32 | 16 | 8 | 49 |
| 4 | Ethiopia Bunna | 30 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 38 | 32 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 6 | 43 |
| 5 | Hadiya Hosaena | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 29 | 24 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 43 |
| 6 | Fasil Ketema | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 29 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 43 |
| 7 | Awassa Kenema | 30 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 34 | 32 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 42 |
| 8 | Adama Kenema | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 41 | 36 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 25 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 41 |
| 9 | Mekelakeya | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 39 | 36 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 22 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 40 |
| 10 | Dire Dawa Kenema | 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 42 | 47 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 26 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 21 | -5 | 40 |
| 11 | Sidama Bunna | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 34 | 42 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 24 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 18 | -8 | 38 |
| 12 | Welayta Dicha | 30 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 25 | 27 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 17 | -2 | 37 |
| 13 | Wolkite Ketema | 30 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 34 | 39 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 20 | 17 | -5 | 35 |
| 14 | Arba Minch Kenema | 30 | 6 | 16 | 8 | 35 | 36 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 18 | -1 | 34 |
| 15 | Legetafo Legedadi | 30 | 4 | 6 | 20 | 24 | 67 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 33 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 34 | -43 | 18 |
| 16 | Mebrat Hayl | 30 | 2 | 9 | 19 | 27 | 51 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 25 | -24 | 15 |