Karonga United favourites for feisty fight facing Blue eagles Malawi

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Competition: Malawi Super League
Competition: Sun 18.July
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: Karonga Stadium (20000 seats)

Super League: Top level against subpar, at least according to the table. Karonga United - Blue eagles Malawi. Home win as expected or a surprise result?

Insights:
  • Karonga United have the most clean sheets (9) in Super League
  • Blue eagles Malawi have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Super League

Blue eagles Malawi could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Super League game only one sleeps ago. That game, against Chitipa United, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Blue eagles Malawi.

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Karonga United form and stats

When playing at home in the Super League, Karonga United, who have the most clean sheets (9) in Super League, have managed 6 wins, 2 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 11 games.

An away draw last time out for Karonga, facing Azam Tigers in a game that ended 1-1.

Before that match, a win away at Red Lions.

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 Karonga have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found four games) they have won one time, drawn one and lost two.

Karonga has scored 16 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. From these home matches, Karonga United have conceded only 10 goals.

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Blue eagles Malawi form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Blue eagles Malawi so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-5 (win-draw-lose).

It might be tough going out on the road again for eagles, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Chitipa United (placed 13th).

Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs TN Stars.

We have checked recent matches where eagles have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those four games were zero victories, two draws and two defeats.

The attacking power of eagles when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 10 league matches away. 12 goals have been conceded by eagles in these games.

Head 2 Head

The most recent history between these sides is the Blue eagles Malawi - Karonga United 3-3 played earlier this season. As for the last five games between these two teams, there's two Karonga victories, one draw and two Blue eagles Malawi wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.

Karonga United missing players

Blue eagles Malawi missing players

Karonga United Blue eagles Malawi
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
23 11 5 Played P 1 10 22
10 6 4 Won W 0 2 6
6 2 1 Drew D 1 3 8
7 3 0 Lost L 0 5 8
26 16 9 Scored S 0 7 24
21 10 2 Conceded C 0 12 22
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 80% 86%
57% 73% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 40% 55%
26% 36% 20% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 30% 27%
22% 27% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 23%
4% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 14%
35% 45% 40% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 36%
48% 45% 60% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 41%
26% 9% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 40% 36%
 
3.5 4.1 4.3 Corners for (avg) C F 8 5.1 4.8
4.3 3 2.3 Corners against (avg) C A 8 4.9 4.3
1.5 1.4 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.1 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
6.1 5 4.3 Shots (avg) S ( 12 5 7.8
2.4 1.9 1.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 2.1 2.9
47% 69% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 40% 32%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Blue eagles Malawi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Blue eagles Malawi have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Super League
  • Karonga United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Karonga United have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Blue eagles Malawi have scored away.
  • Karonga United have the most clean sheets (9) in Super League
  • Karonga United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Silver Strikers 22 14 4 4 39 13 10 8 2 0 26 7 12 6 2 4 13 6 26 46
2 Big Bullets 21 13 6 2 39 12 10 7 3 0 27 8 11 6 3 2 12 4 27 45
3 Be Forward Wanderers 21 10 7 4 30 17 11 5 4 2 15 8 10 5 3 2 15 9 13 37
4 Karonga United 23 10 6 7 26 21 11 6 2 3 16 10 12 4 4 4 10 11 5 36
5 CIVO United 22 8 10 4 27 20 12 4 5 3 11 10 10 4 5 1 16 10 7 34
6 Ekwendeni Hammers 22 10 4 8 27 21 10 6 1 3 13 8 12 4 3 5 14 13 6 34
7 MAFCO 21 8 8 5 23 19 11 5 4 2 12 6 10 3 4 3 11 13 4 32
8 Moyale Barracks 21 8 7 6 22 26 12 6 5 1 13 6 9 2 2 5 9 20 -4 31
9 Kamuzu Barracks 22 7 8 7 23 23 12 4 6 2 12 7 10 3 2 5 11 16 0 29
10 TN Stars 22 8 5 9 19 34 11 6 3 2 12 11 11 2 2 7 7 23 -15 29
11 Red Lions 23 7 7 9 19 24 11 4 0 7 7 12 12 3 7 2 12 12 -5 28
12 Blue eagles Malawi 22 6 8 8 24 22 12 4 5 3 17 10 10 2 3 5 7 12 2 26
13 Chitipa United 24 7 4 13 19 34 12 7 1 4 14 13 12 0 3 9 5 21 -15 25
14 Azam Tigers 23 4 7 12 17 27 11 3 4 4 11 12 12 1 3 8 6 15 -10 19
15 Ntopwa 25 5 4 16 27 47 12 4 1 7 16 22 13 1 3 9 11 25 -20 19
16 Mzuni 22 4 3 15 15 36 10 3 3 4 9 15 12 1 0 11 6 21 -21 15