Super League duel: Close contest expected between Vihiga United and Fortune Sacco

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Competition: Kenya Super League
Competition: Fri 22.April
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Mumias Sports Complex (5000 seats)

Vihiga United will plan to utilise their home advantage to help in closing the gap to today’s opposition. The hosts are currently 8 points behind Fortune Sacco.

Insights:
  • Vihiga United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Fortune Sacco have the most clean sheets (3) away in Super 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.

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Vihiga United form and stats

Vihiga United are steadily winning Super League games and points here at Mumias Sports Complex. 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 10 games.

Vihiga United shared the glory with APS Bomet in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1.

Previous to that game, a home match hosting Dandora Love in a game that was won 3-2.

This is expected to be a close game, with Vihiga United perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Vihiga United as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Vihiga United has won one of these, drawn two and lost eight.

Vihiga have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Mumias Sports Complex with 17 goals in 10 league matches. From these home matches, Vihiga United have conceded only 9 goals.

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Fortune Sacco form and stats

Playing away, Fortune Sacco, who have the most clean sheets (3) away in Super League, have won 3 games, drawn 5 and suffered 2 defeats in the Super League this season. Two points from the last two away games for Fortune Sacco, which the math geniuses among you will translate to two draws.

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

Before that, Fortune travelled to Coast Stima and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Fortune Sacco playing away and similar expectations, we found eight relevant matches. Results were three Fortune Sacco wins, two draws and three defeats.

Fortune Sacco find the net regularly in their away games. 12 goals from 10 away fixtures in the league. 12 goals have been conceded by Fortune in these games.

Head 2 Head

Fortune Sacco - Vihiga United 1-0 was the story when these teams formerly played each other, earlier this season. Numbers for the previous two meetings involving these two contenders are: zero wins for Vihiga United, zero draws and two wins for Fortune Sacco. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: one game.

Vihiga United missing players

Fortune Sacco missing players

Vihiga United Fortune Sacco
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 4 10 20
8 6 2 Won W 1 3 10
5 3 0 Drew D 3 5 7
7 1 1 Lost L 0 2 3
26 17 4 Scored S 6 12 24
22 9 3 Conceded C 4 12 14
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 80% 80%
80% 90% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 60% 45%
45% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 25% 30% 25%
10% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 20% 15%
5% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 20% 10%
55% 70% 67% BTTS BTTS 25% 40% 25%
25% 30% 33% Clean Sheets C S 75% 40% 60%
20% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 40% 35%
 
5.2 4 2 Corners for (avg) C F 4.7 5.6 5.5
5.1 4 1 Corners against (avg) C A 2.7 3.6 3.1
1.3 0.8 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.3 1.1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
4.4 1.8 1 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 8.4 8.3
1.9 1.8 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.4 3.3
65% 86% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 42% 42%
 
5.1 0.8 0 Shots against (avg) S A 4.7 5.7 6.8
1.3 0.5 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2.7 2.4 2.7
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Fortune Sacco have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Fortune Sacco have the most clean sheets (3) away in Super League
  • Vihiga United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Vihiga United have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Vihiga United have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Vihiga United 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 APS Bomet 20 11 5 4 25 16 10 5 4 1 12 6 10 6 1 3 13 10 9 38
2 Fortune Sacco 20 10 7 3 24 14 10 7 2 1 12 2 10 3 5 2 12 12 10 37
3 Zoo Kericho 20 9 6 5 33 25 10 6 2 2 15 8 10 3 4 3 18 17 8 33
4 Kibera Black Stars 20 9 5 6 30 18 10 5 3 2 17 7 10 4 2 4 13 11 12 32
5 Modern Coast Rangers 20 10 2 8 24 19 10 7 1 2 17 9 10 3 1 6 7 10 5 32
6 Shabana 19 9 4 6 22 18 10 6 2 2 15 8 9 3 2 4 7 10 4 31
7 Naivas 19 8 5 6 23 18 10 5 3 2 10 4 9 3 2 4 13 14 5 29
8 Vihiga United 20 8 5 7 26 22 10 6 3 1 17 9 10 2 2 6 9 13 4 29
9 MCF 20 7 7 6 27 28 10 2 5 3 13 14 10 5 2 3 14 14 -1 28
10 Muhoroni Youth 19 7 6 6 22 21 9 5 2 2 12 8 10 2 4 4 10 13 1 27
11 Kisumu All Stars 20 6 8 6 24 22 10 6 4 0 17 6 10 0 4 6 7 16 2 26
12 Murang'a SEAL 16 8 3 5 25 21 7 5 1 1 17 7 9 3 2 4 8 14 4 24
13 Western Stima 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
13 Silibwet 20 7 3 10 25 36 10 3 3 4 11 13 10 4 0 6 14 23 -11 24
14 Assad 20 6 5 9 28 36 10 5 2 3 20 15 10 1 3 6 8 21 -8 23
15 Dandora Love 20 7 2 11 31 47 10 3 2 5 16 24 10 4 0 6 15 23 -16 23
16 Muhoroni Youth 6 1 2 3 3 4 3 0 1 2 1 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 -1 5
16 Gusii 20 4 9 7 19 27 10 3 4 3 10 11 10 1 5 4 9 16 -8 21
17 Coast Stima 19 6 5 8 30 27 10 5 4 1 27 13 9 1 1 7 3 14 3 20
18 Migori Youth 20 4 7 9 20 27 10 4 2 4 11 11 10 0 5 5 9 16 -7 19
19 Mara Sugar 20 4 6 10 25 29 10 3 3 4 16 13 10 1 3 6 9 16 -4 18
20 Mwatate United 20 3 6 11 14 26 10 3 1 6 11 13 10 0 5 5 3 13 -12 15