Sabah are huge odds-on favourites to win home game vs Kelantan

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Competition: Malaysia Premier League
Date: Sat 13.July
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadium Likas (35000 seats)

The league table in Premier League tells a story about these teams so far, with Sabah leading Kelantan by 23 points. Match preview to follow:

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.

It's quite the trip for Kelantan when visiting Sabah as the cities are 4000 kilometers apart.

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Sabah form and stats

Sabah are steadily winning games and points here at Stadium Likas. 7 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat is the summary from 9 games. Sabah has a nice streak going on as they have played ten consecutive games without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Selangor United defeat. After failing to beat UiTM here at Stadium Likas, Sabah has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

A good away victory last time out for Sabah, who won 2-1 against UiTM. In the game before, an away victory match versus Johor Darul Ta'zim II with a 1-0 scoreline.

Goals decide football matches and Sabah are scoring many of them at home; 19 on target from 9 matches. Sabah are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadium Likas, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 9 matches.

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Kelantan form and stats

Kelantan have only collected 6 points from their away games after 1-3-5 (9 played).

Kelantan play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-3 to PDRM. Prior to that match, a home win 2-0 against Selangor United.

With the home team given a winning probability of about 80% by the bookmakers, any point(s) for the visitors would be a surprise. Checking earlier matches with similar odds with Kelantan as the away team, we found two results. Statistics from these were 1 away win, 0 draws and 1 defeat. The outsiders lost 1 of these games by at least two goals.

Kelantan have scored 10 goals on their travels this season, 9 away games. The Kelantan manager Fajr Ebrahim has some worries about the defense as 19 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Kelantan - Sabah 3-3 earlier this season. Sabah-Kelantan H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Sabah 1 win, Kelantan 5 wins, 4 draws. 5 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

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Sabah Kelantan
Total Home Home vs low Statistic Away vs top Away Total
18 9 2 Played 3 9 18
12 7 2 Won 0 1 3
4 1 0 Drew 1 3 8
2 1 0 Lost 2 5 7
31 19 5 Scored 4 10 21
15 7 1 Conceded 8 19 31
89% 100% 100% Over 0.5 100% 100% 89%
67% 78% 50% Over 1.5 100% 78% 72%
56% 56% 50% Over 2.5 67% 56% 44%
28% 44% 50% Over 3.5 67% 56% 39%
11% 11% 50% Over 4.5 33% 22% 22%
61% 67% 50% BTTS 67% 67% 61%
39% 33% 50% Clean Sheets 0% 11% 22%
11% 0% 0% Failed To Score 33% 22% 28%
 
5.5 7 11.5 Corners For (avg) 2.5 3.8 4
4.1 5.1 4 Corners Against (avg) 5.5 5.5 5.7
2.3 1.9 2 Yellow Cards (avg) 3 2 2.3
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 1 1
Key stats this season:
  • Kelantan have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Kelantan haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Sabah have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Sabah have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Sabah have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Sabah haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

Sabah
All Malaysia Cup Premier League Welsh Cup
All Home Away
04-05-19 PL Sabah 1 - 0 Selangor United
17-05-19 PL UKM 0 - 1 Sabah
25-05-19 PL Pulau Pinang 0 - 0 Sabah
15-06-19 PL Sabah 1 - 0 Negeri Sembilan
19-06-19 PL PDRM 1 - 2 Sabah
26-06-19 PL Sabah 4 - 1 Sarawak
05-07-19 PL Johor Darul Ta'zim II 0 - 1 Sabah
09-07-19 PL UiTM 1 - 2 Sabah
13-07-19 PL Sabah 13:00 Kelantan
20-07-19 PL PBDKT T-Team 13:00 Sabah
Kelantan
All Malaysia Cup Premier League Club Friendlies Super League
All Home Away
04-05-19 PL Kelantan 0 - 0 Sarawak
11-05-19 PL Pulau Pinang 4 - 1 Kelantan
18-05-19 PL Negeri Sembilan 3 - 1 Kelantan
25-05-19 PL PBDKT T-Team 2 - 2 Kelantan
14-06-19 PL Kelantan 0 - 0 UiTM
18-06-19 PL Kelantan 1 - 1 Johor Darul Ta'zim II
05-07-19 PL Kelantan 2 - 0 Selangor United
10-07-19 PL PDRM 3 - 1 Kelantan
13-07-19 PL Sabah 13:00 Kelantan
20-07-19 PL Kelantan 13:00 UKM

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Sabah 18 12 4 2 31 15 9 7 1 1 19 7 9 5 3 1 12 8 16 40
2 Johor Darul Ta'zim II 21 10 6 5 33 20 11 7 1 3 19 7 10 3 5 2 14 13 13 36
3 Negeri Sembilan 18 8 4 6 26 21 9 5 2 2 14 9 9 3 2 4 12 12 5 28
4 UiTM 20 8 4 8 32 27 10 2 2 6 13 19 10 6 2 2 19 8 5 28
5 PDRM 18 8 3 7 26 23 9 2 3 4 14 13 9 6 0 3 12 10 3 27
6 PBDKT T-Team 18 7 6 5 18 20 9 4 4 1 7 4 9 3 2 4 11 16 -2 27
7 UKM 20 7 4 9 30 31 11 3 2 6 16 21 9 4 2 3 14 10 -1 25
8 Pulau Pinang 18 6 6 6 24 23 9 4 2 3 13 11 9 2 4 3 11 12 1 24
9 Selangor United 18 5 3 10 20 33 9 3 2 4 14 19 9 2 1 6 6 14 -13 18
10 Kelantan 18 3 8 7 21 31 9 2 5 2 11 12 9 1 3 5 10 19 -10 17
11 Sarawak 18 3 4 11 19 37 9 2 2 5 9 14 9 1 2 6 10 23 -18 13
12 Perlis 3 1 0 2 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 5 4 1 3

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