Premier League match prediction and preview for Karela vs WAFA clash

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Competition: Ghana Premier League
Competition: Sun 11.July
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Crosby Awuah Memorial Stadium (3000 seats)

Karela will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind WAFA.

Insights:
  • Karela have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • WAFA have the most scored goals in the first half (24) in Premier League

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting WAFA 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 7-13-21 (win-draw-loss) from 41 matches.

Karela can neither be promoted or relegated from Premier League. WAFA is no longer fighting for a cause; they can neither go up or down this season.

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Karela form and stats

Karela are steadily winning Premier League games and points here at Crosby Awuah Memorial Stadium. 11 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats is the summary from 16 games. Karela has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager and the players.

Karela lost their last game at Liberty Professionals (placed 15th) after a 2-3 scoreline.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Ebusua Dwarfs (1-4).

Karela have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Crosby Awuah Memorial Stadium with 28 goals in 16 league matches. Karela are not conceding a lot of goals here at Crosby Awuah Memorial Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 14 from 16 matches.

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WAFA form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for WAFA so far with only 13 points returning home. The records show 3-4-9 (win-draw-lose).

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. WAFA goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 183 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

WAFA had fun at their own home (Crosby Awuah Memorial Stadium) last time out, beating Inter Allies 1-0.

Before that, WAFA travelled to Ashanti Gold and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

The attacking power of WAFA when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 16 league matches away. WAFA have conceded 21 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: WAFA - Karela 3-1. Head-to-head totals (for the last three meetings): Karela won zero games, one match ended with a draw and WAFA has two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: one / two

Karela missing players

WAFA missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Karela WAFA
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
32 16 5 Played P 5 16 32
12 11 2 Won W 2 3 14
10 3 2 Drew D 1 4 8
10 2 1 Lost L 2 9 10
41 28 6 Scored S 4 10 43
37 14 5 Conceded C 4 21 38
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 88% 91%
81% 94% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 20% 44% 56%
41% 38% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 20% 31% 38%
22% 19% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 20% 19% 28%
9% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 20% 12% 22%
59% 56% 60% BTTS BTTS 20% 31% 44%
28% 38% 20% Clean Sheets C S 40% 19% 31%
22% 6% 20% Failed to Score F T 60% 62% 34%
 
3.7 4.6 6.2 Corners for (avg) C F 2.6 3.9 4.4
3.1 3.3 4.2 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 4.6 4.1
1.2 0.9 0.6 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.5 1.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
9.5 14.2 13.2 Shots (avg) S ( 4.4 9 11.3
3.7 6 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.6 3.6 4.2
32% 28% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 17% 31%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Karela have scored at least twice as many goals at home as WAFA have scored away.
  • Karela have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Karela haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • WAFA have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • WAFA have the most scored goals in the first half (24) in Premier League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hearts of Oak 32 17 9 6 44 21 16 12 3 1 33 8 16 5 6 5 11 13 23 60
2 Asante Kotoko 32 15 12 5 36 19 16 9 4 3 22 10 16 6 8 2 14 9 17 57
3 Medeama 32 14 9 9 36 31 16 11 4 1 25 10 16 3 5 8 11 21 5 51
4 WAFA 32 14 8 10 43 38 16 11 4 1 33 17 16 3 4 9 10 21 5 50
5 Great Olympics 32 14 7 11 34 30 16 9 4 3 19 9 16 5 3 8 15 21 4 49
6 Dreams 32 13 9 10 44 33 17 12 2 3 32 11 15 1 7 7 12 22 11 48
7 Karela 32 12 10 10 41 37 16 11 3 2 28 14 16 1 7 8 13 23 4 46
8 Aduana Stars 31 13 7 11 37 39 15 11 4 0 24 8 16 2 3 11 13 31 -2 46
9 Ashanti Gold 31 10 11 10 43 35 15 8 5 2 25 9 16 2 6 8 18 26 8 41
10 Berekum Chelsea 32 11 7 14 36 44 16 10 5 1 27 11 16 1 2 13 9 33 -8 40
11 Wa All Stars 32 10 9 13 31 31 16 7 6 3 21 12 16 3 3 10 10 19 0 39
12 Eleven Wonders 32 10 9 13 28 34 16 8 4 4 18 12 16 2 5 9 10 22 -6 39
13 Bechem United 32 10 9 13 35 44 16 9 6 1 25 10 16 1 3 12 10 34 -9 39
14 Ebusua Dwarfs 32 11 8 13 38 41 16 7 5 4 19 16 16 4 3 9 19 25 -3 38
15 Liberty Professionals 32 10 8 14 32 44 16 7 6 3 24 18 16 3 2 11 8 26 -12 38
16 King Faisal 32 9 10 13 30 45 16 7 6 3 18 12 16 2 4 10 12 33 -15 37
17 Elmina Sharks 32 8 11 13 31 45 16 8 6 2 19 13 16 0 5 11 12 32 -14 35
18 Inter Allies 32 7 5 20 26 34 16 7 2 7 19 14 16 0 3 13 7 20 -8 26

Table
  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hearts of Oak 32 17 9 6 44 21 16 12 3 1 33 8 16 5 6 5 11 13 23 60
2 Asante Kotoko 32 15 12 5 36 19 16 9 4 3 22 10 16 6 8 2 14 9 17 57
3 Medeama 32 14 9 9 36 31 16 11 4 1 25 10 16 3 5 8 11 21 5 51
4 WAFA 32 14 8 10 43 38 16 11 4 1 33 17 16 3 4 9 10 21 5 50
5 Great Olympics 32 14 7 11 34 30 16 9 4 3 19 9 16 5 3 8 15 21 4 49
6 Dreams 32 13 9 10 44 33 17 12 2 3 32 11 15 1 7 7 12 22 11 48
7 Karela 32 12 10 10 41 37 16 11 3 2 28 14 16 1 7 8 13 23 4 46
8 Aduana Stars 31 13 7 11 37 39 15 11 4 0 24 8 16 2 3 11 13 31 -2 46
9 Ashanti Gold 31 10 11 10 43 35 15 8 5 2 25 9 16 2 6 8 18 26 8 41
10 Berekum Chelsea 32 11 7 14 36 44 16 10 5 1 27 11 16 1 2 13 9 33 -8 40
11 Wa All Stars 32 10 9 13 31 31 16 7 6 3 21 12 16 3 3 10 10 19 0 39
12 Eleven Wonders 32 10 9 13 28 34 16 8 4 4 18 12 16 2 5 9 10 22 -6 39
13 Bechem United 32 10 9 13 35 44 16 9 6 1 25 10 16 1 3 12 10 34 -9 39
14 Ebusua Dwarfs 32 11 8 13 38 41 16 7 5 4 19 16 16 4 3 9 19 25 -3 38
15 Liberty Professionals 32 10 8 14 32 44 16 7 6 3 24 18 16 3 2 11 8 26 -12 38
16 King Faisal 32 9 10 13 30 45 16 7 6 3 18 12 16 2 4 10 12 33 -15 37
17 Elmina Sharks 32 8 11 13 31 45 16 8 6 2 19 13 16 0 5 11 12 32 -14 35
18 Inter Allies 32 7 5 20 26 34 16 7 2 7 19 14 16 0 3 13 7 20 -8 26

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