Only three points good enough for Negeri Sembilan in Melaka United game

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Competition: Malaysia Super League
Competition: Tue 11.October
Match begins: 12:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stadium Tuanku Abdul Rahman (45000 seats)

Negeri Sembilan are hunting the top league spots while Melaka United are more worried about staying out of trouble and relegation. Expected home win or surprise away points?

Insights:
  • Negeri Sembilan have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Super League
  • Melaka United have the most matches over the total-line (12) in Super League

Negeri Sembilan are staying put; they can neither be promoted or relegated this season and are fighting only for positions. Melaka United are struggling to avoid relegation.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Negeri Sembilan and Melaka United.

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Negeri Sembilan form and stats

Negeri Sembilan are steadily winning Super League games and points here at Stadium Tuanku Abdul Rahman. 7 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats is the summary from 10 games. After failing to beat Sabah here at Stadium Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Sembilan has put together a very nice winning streak on their own turf with four wins in a row.

The Negeri Sembilan followers enjoyed the previous game, watching their team host Kedah and win 4-3. A goal frenzy last time out for Negeri Sembilan, with a total of 7 goals in the match against Kedah. Fun stuff to watch!

Prior to that, an away loss at Johor Darul Ta'zim.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Negeri Sembilan as they are travelling to their away game against Pahang in the Super League. That match is four days after this one.

Goals decide football matches and Sembilan are scoring many of them at home; 22 on target from 10 league matches. Negeri Sembilan's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 14 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Melaka United form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Melaka United so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-6 (win-draw-lose). It's all red in the travel logs of Melaka, having lost four matches in a row as the visiting team.

Melaka United's previous game was their home loss versus Terengganu (2-4). As you can tell from the result, the match against Terengganu was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?

Prior to that match, the Melaka manager Ninggal faced defeat when travelling to Selangor and losing 0-5.

Observe that 9 of this team's 10 latest league rounds have ended with three goals or more.

Melaka United have another match away in just four sleeps, a Super League game against Selangor United. A hard fixture list for the guests!

The attacking power of Melaka United when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 9 league matches away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Melaka concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own. It's worth mentioning that 14 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches. Melaka United has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

Melaka United have won or drawn the last 5 fixtures (4-1-0) against Sembilan.

This was the final score when the participants played each other previously this campaign; Melaka United - Negeri Sembilan 0-0.

Top Goalscorers

Negeri SembilanG. Almeida dos Santos
G. Almeida dos Santos
10 goals
Melaka UnitedI. Omosuyi
I. Omosuyi
7 goals
Negeri SembilanH. Goulon
H. Goulon
6 goals

Negeri Sembilan missing players

Melaka United missing players

Negeri Sembilan Melaka United
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 3 9 20
11 7 3 Won W 0 2 4
5 1 0 Drew D 0 1 6
4 2 0 Lost L 3 6 10
31 22 9 Scored S 1 7 22
24 14 5 Conceded C 11 23 40
85% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
65% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 80%
55% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 60%
35% 50% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 44% 45%
25% 30% 67% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 33% 30%
50% 70% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 44% 50%
30% 10% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 15%
35% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 56% 45%
 
4.5 5.5 7.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 3.9 3.1
4 4.6 4.3 Corners against (avg) C A 6 5.4 5.2
2.2 2.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.3 1.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
9.2 10.8 15.7 Shots (avg) S ( 1 4.4 5.9
3.5 4.5 7.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0.7 1.9 2.5
44% 49% 39% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 41% 44%
 
8.2 8.3 8 Shots against (avg) S A 6.3 8.4 8.7
3.8 3.6 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 4.6 4.7
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Melaka United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Melaka United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Melaka United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Melaka United have the fewest scored goals (7) away in Super League
  • Melaka United have the most matches over the total-line (12) in Super League
  • Melaka United have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • Melaka United haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Negeri Sembilan have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Negeri Sembilan have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Melaka United have scored away.
  • Negeri Sembilan have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Super League
  • Negeri Sembilan have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Negeri Sembilan 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 Johor Darul Ta'zim 20 15 5 0 54 11 9 8 1 0 34 4 11 7 4 0 20 7 43 50
2 Sabah 20 12 3 5 34 22 11 7 1 3 23 13 9 5 2 2 11 9 12 39
3 Terengganu 20 12 2 6 34 18 11 8 2 1 20 4 9 4 0 5 14 14 16 38
4 Negeri Sembilan 20 11 5 4 31 24 10 7 1 2 22 14 10 4 4 2 9 10 7 38
5 Kuala Lumpur 20 8 5 7 29 28 10 6 2 2 19 11 10 2 3 5 10 17 1 29
6 Kedah 20 8 3 9 30 34 10 5 2 3 15 12 10 3 1 6 15 22 -4 27
7 Selangor 20 7 5 8 37 32 11 5 3 3 26 11 9 2 2 5 11 21 5 26
8 Pahang 20 7 4 9 30 29 9 3 2 4 11 10 11 4 2 5 19 19 1 25
9 MISC 20 4 8 8 19 30 9 2 2 5 11 16 11 2 6 3 8 14 -11 20
10 Melaka United 20 4 6 10 22 40 11 2 5 4 15 17 9 2 1 6 7 23 -18 18
11 Selangor United 20 4 2 14 18 49 9 0 2 7 4 17 11 4 0 7 14 32 -31 14
12 Pulau Pinang 20 2 4 14 21 42 10 2 3 5 13 17 10 0 1 9 8 25 -21 10