Assad vs Vihiga United match preview

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Competition: Kenya Super League
Competition: Sun 11.June
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Mbaraki Sports Club (10000 seats)

This game involves two contenders residing in the basement of the Super League, Assad at 14th spot and Vihiga United in 17th. A good chance for one of the teams to improve their position.

Insights:
  • Assad have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Vihiga United have the most conceded goals (66) in Super League

It's no vacation for neither Assad nor Vihiga United as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Assad form and stats

The story so far in the Super League for Assad at their home stadium (Mbaraki Sports Club) is 7 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats. When Assad hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like APS Bomet, Fortune Sacco, Kajiado, Assad, Silibwet and Mwatate United), they have won 2 of 2 matches!

Assad are confident in defense, having played 202 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

A strong away win for Assad against Modern Coast Rangers the last match.

Ahead of that match, Assad won a home game hosting Silibwet (2-0).

Assad have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Mbaraki Sports Club with 25 goals in 14 league matches. Assad's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 17 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Vihiga United form and stats

Vihiga United have only collected 7 points from their away games in the Super League, after 1-4-8 (13 played). It's all red in the travel logs of Vihiga United, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.

Impressive finishing secured the home win 2-0 against Silibwet in their previous game.

Preceding that game, the 2-3 loss visiting Kajiado's place.

Goal hungry football fans should note that 10 of this club's 12 latest league matches have ended with three goals or more.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Vihiga United as they have only managed to score 10 times from 13 away games in the league. The opposition has been scoring high and low on Vihiga's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 35 goals in 13 travels. When Vihiga United is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against APS Bomet, Fortune Sacco, Kajiado, Vihiga United, Silibwet and Mwatate United.

Head 2 Head

This happened when the sides faced each other previously this campaign; Vihiga United - Assad 5-1. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's zero Assad victories, one draw and two Vihiga United wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.

Assad missing players

Vihiga United missing players

Assad Vihiga United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
27 14 2 Played P 3 13 27
9 7 2 Won W 0 1 6
4 3 0 Drew D 1 4 6
14 4 0 Lost L 2 8 15
33 25 5 Scored S 2 10 30
45 17 2 Conceded C 8 35 66
93% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 77% 89%
78% 79% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 77% 85%
56% 64% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 62% 63%
33% 36% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 46% 41%
22% 21% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 46% 33%
52% 71% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 38% 52%
22% 29% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 23% 19%
33% 7% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 62% 41%
 
1.9 2.2 1.5 Corners for (avg) C F 1.5 1.8 2
3 2 2 Corners against (avg) C A 1 3.3 4.1
0.9 0.8 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 0.8 0.6
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.6 10.1 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 3.8 3
4 4.9 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 2.1 1.8
38% 45% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 43% 71%
 
8.7 8 7 Shots against (avg) S A 16.5 8.6 7.5
3.7 3.3 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 8.5 5.3 4.1
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Assad have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Assad have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Vihiga United have scored away.
  • Vihiga United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
  • Vihiga United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Vihiga United have the most conceded goals (66) in Super League
  • Vihiga United have the most conceded goals in the second half (40) in Super League
  • Vihiga United have the the worst goal difference (-44) in Super 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 Murang'a SEAL 28 19 7 2 49 14 15 12 3 0 35 4 13 7 4 2 16 10 35 61
2 Shabana 26 19 3 4 44 11 13 10 2 1 26 5 13 9 1 3 18 6 33 60
3 Migori Youth 27 14 8 5 35 18 13 10 3 0 24 4 14 4 5 5 11 14 17 50
4 Mara Sugar 27 15 5 7 36 23 14 10 3 1 23 5 13 5 2 6 13 18 13 50
5 Gusii 27 12 4 11 39 28 13 7 3 3 20 11 14 5 1 8 19 17 11 40
6 Darajani Gogo 28 11 7 10 38 32 14 9 2 3 28 9 14 2 5 7 10 23 6 40
7 Naivas 26 11 6 9 34 21 13 6 2 5 20 11 13 5 4 4 14 10 13 39
8 Modern Coast Rangers 28 10 7 11 37 38 14 6 5 3 20 14 14 4 2 8 17 24 -1 37
9 MCF 27 8 10 9 25 23 13 5 3 5 16 12 14 3 7 4 9 11 2 34
10 Kisumu All Stars 28 9 8 11 31 29 13 7 2 4 23 10 15 2 6 7 10 19 2 32
11 Kibera Black Stars 26 9 7 10 21 22 13 7 5 1 19 7 13 2 2 9 4 15 -1 31
12 Coast Stima 26 8 4 14 29 46 13 7 1 5 17 14 13 1 3 9 12 32 -17 28
13 Mwatate United 26 9 3 14 28 46 13 5 2 6 16 19 13 4 1 8 14 27 -18 27
14 Assad 27 9 4 14 29 45 14 7 3 4 25 17 13 2 1 10 8 28 -16 25
15 Kajiado 28 8 3 17 32 62 15 6 2 7 19 23 13 2 1 10 17 39 -30 21
16 Silibwet 28 2 10 16 13 44 13 1 8 4 9 12 15 1 2 12 6 32 -31 13
17 Vihiga United 27 6 6 15 22 66 14 5 2 7 20 31 13 1 4 8 10 35 -44 12
18 APS Bomet 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19 Fortune Sacco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0