Elmina Sharks greet Hearts of Oak for another entertaining Premier League game here at Paa Kwesi Nduom Stadium.
- Hearts of Oak is in the worst form (0-3-1)
There have been little to rest for the home team, as they were involved in a Premier League game only four days earlier. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at King Faisal.
Elmina Sharks's stadium, Paa Kwesi Nduom Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Hearts of Oak have grass 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 Hearts of Oak when playing on artifical turf; 2 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses from ten matches. They have scored 5 goals in these games and conceded 15.
Elmina Sharks form and stats
Elmina Sharks have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the Premier League. A decent catch, still with room for improvement. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Paa Kwesi Nduom Stadium.
The fans are hoping that Elmina will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Premier League game against King Faisal (placed 1st).
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Karela in a game that was won 2-1.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Elmina as they are travelling to their away game against Real Tamale in the Premier League. That match is three days after this one.
The Elmina Sharks fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 5 goals in 3 league matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Elmina defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Hearts of Oak form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Premier League for Hearts of Oak with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.
There might be some fixture complaints from Hearts of Oak as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the CAF Confederations Cup match against JS Saoura (0-4). Hearts of Oak lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs JS Saoura.After this away game Hearts return home for a Premier League game against Accra Lions. That game is only three sleeps after this.
It's early days yet, but Hearts of Oak has scored 1 and conceded 3 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last six matches): Elmina one win, three draws and Hearts of Oak two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Elmina Sharks missing players
Hearts of Oak missing players
| Elmina Sharks | Hearts of Oak | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| 86% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 75% |
| 57% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 29% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 71% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 50% |
| 3 | 3.3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 4.5 | 3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5 | 4.5 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 4 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7.5 | 9.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 7 | 13.5 |
| 2.3 | 3.3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2 | 4.5 |
| 43% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 50% | 11% |
| 12.2 | 9.3 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 10 | 10.5 |
| 3.8 | 4.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3 | 4 |
- Hearts of Oak have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Premier League
- Hearts of Oak is in the worst form (0-3-1)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | King Faisal | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| 2 | Aduana Stars | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 3 | Asante Kotoko | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 4 | Dreams | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 11 |
| 5 | Ashanti Gold | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 6 | Bechem United | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 |
| 7 | Bibiani Gold Stars | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| 8 | Real Tamale | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -1 | 10 |
| 9 | Great Olympics | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 10 | Karela | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 11 | Medeama | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 9 |
| 12 | Wa All Stars | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 7 |
| 13 | Elmina Sharks | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 14 | Accra Lions | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | -7 | 7 |
| 15 | Eleven Wonders | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -2 | 6 |
| 16 | Berekum Chelsea | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 5 |
| 17 | WAFA | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | -6 | 5 |
| 18 | Hearts of Oak | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 3 |