Delightful dogfight as daring Europa FC duel with determined St Josephs FC

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Competition: Gibraltar Premier Division
Competition: Sun 09.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Victoria Stadium (5000 seats)

Europa FC have performed well so far, being 1st place in the table. St Josephs FC have an outlook both up and down the table from the 4th place.

Insights:
  • Europa FC have the fewest conceded goals (4) in Premier Division
  • St Josephs FC have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Europa FC form and stats

Europa FC are steadily winning Premier Division games and points here at Victoria Stadium. 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat is the summary from 6 games.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 245 minutes.

Europa FC's last game was hosting St Josephs FC and winning 3-0.

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Glacis United.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Europa FC have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 5 games) they have won 2 times, drawn 2 and lost 1.

It should be noted that a glance at the 13 latest league matches reveals that 11 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Europa FC are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (16 goals in 6 games). Europa are not conceding a lot of goals here at Victoria Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 6 matches.

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St Josephs FC form and stats

The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 4 wins, 0 draws and only 2 losses in the Premier Division.

There might be some fixture complaints from St Josephs FC as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous game, 0-3 against Europa FC. That loss was their first after three consecutive league matches winning points.

A loss, in the Gibraltar Cup away at Lincoln Red Imps, before that.

They concede less than a goal on average per away game (5 so far).

Head 2 Head

The contenders have faced each other before in this season, with the result Europa - St Josephs FC 3-0 registered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - one - three (Europa FC wins - draws - St Josephs FC wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Europa FC missing players

St Josephs FC missing players

Europa FC St Josephs FC
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 11 4 Played P 2 11 18
12 7 4 Won W 1 6 10
2 2 0 Drew D 0 1 2
4 2 0 Lost L 1 4 6
44 25 15 Scored S 1 22 36
13 8 4 Conceded C 1 10 20
94% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
78% 73% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 73% 83%
50% 55% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 55% 67%
28% 27% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 27% 33%
28% 27% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 27% 22%
28% 36% 75% BTTS BTTS 0% 36% 50%
50% 45% 25% Clean Sheets C S 50% 36% 33%
28% 27% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 27% 17%
 
6.9 7 9.3 Corners for (avg) C F 1.5 6.7 5.1
3.2 3.8 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 2 2.6 4.4
1.8 1.9 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2 2
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
14.4 12.8 16.3 Shots (avg) S ( 7 16.5 12.6
6.6 6.4 8.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 6.8 5.3
37% 36% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 31% 39%
 
7.9 9 7 Shots against (avg) S A 6 8.5 8.2
3.4 4 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 3.5 3.5
Key stats in Premier Division this season:
  • Europa FC have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Europa FC have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Europa FC have the fewest conceded goals (4) in Premier Division
  • Europa FC have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Premier Division
  • Europa FC have the most matches under the total-line (9) in Premier Division
  • Europa FC have the the best goal difference (+30) in Premier Division
  • Europa FC have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • St Josephs FC have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • St Josephs FC have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded away.
  • St Josephs FC have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • St Josephs FC haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Europa FC 10 8 1 1 34 4 6 4 1 1 16 3 4 4 0 0 18 1 30 25
2 Lincoln Red Imps 10 8 1 1 36 8 6 5 0 1 26 5 4 3 1 0 10 3 28 25
3 Magpies 10 8 1 1 24 5 5 4 0 1 12 1 5 4 1 0 12 4 19 25
4 St Josephs FC 10 6 1 3 26 10 4 2 1 1 8 5 6 4 0 2 18 5 16 19
5 Lynx 10 6 1 3 18 10 4 3 0 1 11 5 6 3 1 2 7 5 8 19
6 Glacis United 10 4 0 6 12 20 5 3 0 2 5 5 5 1 0 4 7 15 -8 12
7 Lions FC 10 3 2 5 11 20 6 2 2 2 10 11 4 1 0 3 1 9 -9 11
8 Mons Calpe 10 3 1 6 7 14 5 3 0 2 5 5 5 0 1 4 2 9 -7 10
9 Manchester 62 10 2 1 7 12 23 5 2 1 2 8 11 5 0 0 5 4 12 -11 7
10 Europa Point 10 1 1 8 7 45 4 0 0 4 0 20 6 1 1 4 7 25 -38 4
11 College Cosmo 10 1 0 9 4 32 5 1 0 4 2 17 5 0 0 5 2 15 -28 3