Premiere Division preview: Can Afrique Football Élite edge out victory against Binga?

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Competition: Mali Premiere Division
Competition: Wed 31.May
Match begins: 18:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stade Omnisports de Bougouni (4500 seats)

Afrique Football Élite have won 29 points running out as the home team. Binga have got 21 points as the visiting team. Could we look at anything else than a home win?

Insights:
  • Binga have the most matches under the total-line (13) in Premiere Division

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.

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Afrique Football Élite form and stats

When playing at home in the Premiere Division, Afrique Football Élite have managed 4 wins, 3 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 10 games. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Afrique Football Élite after consecutive victories at their own ground.

The regulars are hoping that Football will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the game against Réal Bamako (placed 1st). The first setback in the shape of a defeat after going unbeaten through four league games.

Ahead of that match, Afrique Football Élite won a home game hosting Police (3-1).

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 Afrique Football Élite have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 4 games) they have won 4 times, drawn 0 and lost 0.

It should be noted that a peek at the 15 latest league games shows that 12 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).

Football aren't scoring a lot here at Stade Omnisports de Bougouni in the league, with only {8 goals} from 10 games. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Afrique Football Élite have conceded only 7 goals.

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Binga form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Binga so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 1-4-3 (win-draw-lose).

There were no winners in Binga's previous match, the home game that ended 2-2 vs ASKO (placed 9th).

A 1-1 draw at Black Stars's stadium before that.

Low on goals? 12 of this club's last 13 league matches have seen two goals or less.

Goals are few and far between in Binga's away league games. Only {3 goals} from 8 travels. Binga are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 5 times in 8 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The fixture history shows this score when the teams met previously this campaign; Binga - Football 0-0.

Afrique Football Élite missing players

Binga missing players

Afrique Football Élite Binga
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 3 8 20
8 4 2 Won W 1 1 3
5 3 0 Drew D 1 4 12
7 3 1 Lost L 1 3 5
15 8 2 Scored S 2 3 11
13 7 1 Conceded C 1 5 14
85% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 62% 65%
35% 40% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 38% 45%
15% 10% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 10%
5% 10% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 5%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
20% 30% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 12% 25%
50% 40% 67% Clean Sheets C S 67% 50% 50%
45% 40% 33% Failed to Score F T 67% 75% 60%
 
3.8 4.2 7 Corners for (avg) C F 2.3 2.4 4
3.2 3.8 2 Corners against (avg) C A 2.7 2.6 2.2
1.6 1.9 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.7 0.6 1
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.1 6.6 8.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7 5.8 5.9
2.6 3 3.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 1.4 1.5
34% 30% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 27% 38%
 
6.6 6.6 6 Shots against (avg) S A 5.3 6.6 5.7
2.5 2.7 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 2.6 2.5
Key stats in Premiere Division this season:
  • Afrique Football Élite have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Binga have scored away.
  • Binga have the fewest scored goals (3) away in Premiere Division
  • Binga have the most matches under the total-line (13) in Premiere Division
  • Binga have won significantly less corners away then 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 Réal Bamako 20 13 5 2 28 10 10 7 2 1 18 7 10 6 3 1 10 3 18 44
2 Djoliba 20 9 10 1 22 7 10 7 3 0 16 3 10 2 7 1 6 4 15 37
3 Stade Malien Bamako 20 6 10 4 13 7 9 3 5 1 5 2 11 3 5 3 8 5 6 30
4 Police 20 8 6 6 18 16 11 5 5 1 12 6 9 3 1 5 6 10 2 30
5 Onze Createurs 20 7 9 4 15 14 10 2 5 3 4 7 10 5 4 1 11 7 1 30
6 Afrique Football Élite 20 8 5 7 15 13 10 4 3 3 8 7 10 4 2 4 7 6 2 29
7 USFAS Bamako 20 6 10 4 19 17 8 4 3 1 10 6 12 2 7 3 9 11 2 28
8 Bakaridjan 20 7 6 7 17 17 10 5 1 4 11 9 10 2 5 3 6 8 0 27
9 ASKO 20 5 11 4 16 14 11 1 8 2 4 4 9 4 3 2 12 10 2 26
10 COB 20 6 8 6 17 22 11 3 5 3 9 12 9 3 3 3 8 10 -5 26
11 Bougouni 20 6 7 7 24 22 9 6 1 2 14 5 11 0 6 5 10 17 2 25
12 Black Stars 20 5 8 7 20 22 12 4 6 2 12 9 8 1 2 5 8 13 -2 23
13 Binga 20 3 12 5 11 14 12 2 8 2 8 9 8 1 4 3 3 5 -3 21
14 LC Ba 20 3 11 6 15 21 8 1 4 3 8 11 12 2 7 3 7 8 -6 16
15 USC Kita 20 2 9 9 11 23 10 2 5 3 6 8 10 0 4 6 5 15 -12 15
16 Yeelen Olympique 20 1 3 16 14 36 9 0 1 8 7 18 11 1 2 8 7 20 -22 9