MFA Centenary Stadium: Luqa vs Swieqi First Division full preview

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Competition: Malta First Division
Competition: Fri 18.February
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: MFA Centenary Stadium (1000 seats)

This game involves two contenders residing in the lower parts of the First Division, Luqa having 11th place and Swieqi lying 8th. A nice chance for one of the contenders to boost their position.

Insights:
  • Luqa have the fewest scored goals (8) in First Division

This promises to be an entertaining fixture with lots of action and energy as both contenders are well renewed since they last saw competitive action. Let's go!

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Luqa form and stats

With 1 First Division win, 1 draw and 5 defeats from their home games, Luqa are certainly not brimming with confidence. All in all it has been a very rough period for Luqa who hasn’t won a league-game in their last twelve attempts. Their previous win was against Pieta Hotspurs, 145 days ago.

Luqa faced defeat in their previous match, away at Tarxien Rainbows (0-3).

Luqa have scored 4 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. Luqa have conceded 17 goals in these home games, a significant number.

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Swieqi form and stats

The visitors are W2-D4-L1 on the road this term. That's in the First Division. When Swieqi is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 2 of 2 matches. Mgarr, Swieqi and Senglea Athletic is teams we like to compare Luqa with.

Swieqi's previous game was their home loss versus St. Andrews (1-4).

Swieqi are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 8 away goals from 7 games (in the league). 8 goals have been conceded by Swieqi in these games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have played before this season: Swieqi - Luqa 0-0.

Luqa missing players

Swieqi missing players

Luqa Swieqi
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 1 Played P 2 7 15
1 1 0 Won W 2 2 4
4 1 1 Drew D 0 4 7
10 5 0 Lost L 0 1 4
8 4 1 Scored S 3 8 16
33 17 1 Conceded C 1 8 22
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 71% 80%
87% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 57% 60%
40% 29% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 57% 60%
20% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 43% 47%
13% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 7%
40% 29% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 57% 53%
13% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 43% 40%
53% 57% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 27%
 
4.5 4.6 8 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4.7 4.8
5.5 5.4 1 Corners against (avg) C A 0 4 4.2
2.5 2.4 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.7 3.1
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 4
 
2.4 0.8 1 Shots (avg) S ( 0 3 4.8
1 0.8 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2 2.8
50% 100% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 83% 41%
 
4.8 2.6 1 Shots against (avg) S A 0 5.3 5.6
3.2 2.6 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 3 2.6
Key stats in First Division this season:
  • All of Luqa's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Luqa have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Luqa have the fewest points (4) at home in First Division
  • Luqa have the fewest scored goals (4) at home in First Division
  • Luqa have the fewest scored goals (8) in First Division
  • Luqa have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in First Division
  • Luqa have the most conceded goals (17) at home in First Division
  • Luqa have the most conceded goals in the first half (15) in First Division
  • Luqa have the most conceded goals in the second half (13) in First Division
  • Luqa have the the worst goal difference (-13) at home in First Division
  • Luqa have the the worst goal difference (-25) in First Division
  • Luqa haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Luqa is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Zebbug Rangers 15 9 3 3 32 13 8 5 2 1 16 7 7 4 1 2 16 6 19 30
2 Tarxien Rainbows 15 7 7 1 34 20 8 2 5 1 14 12 7 5 2 0 20 8 14 28
3 Marsa 14 7 5 2 24 11 7 4 3 0 13 4 7 3 2 2 11 7 13 26
4 Pieta Hotspurs 13 7 3 3 20 10 7 5 0 2 15 5 6 2 3 1 5 5 10 24
5 Qrendi 14 6 2 6 22 25 7 3 1 3 11 12 7 3 1 3 11 13 -3 20
6 Fgura United 14 5 4 5 23 18 7 2 3 2 13 10 7 3 1 3 10 8 5 19
7 St. Andrews 15 5 4 6 27 24 7 2 3 2 10 9 8 3 1 4 17 15 3 19
8 Swieqi 15 4 7 4 16 22 8 2 3 3 8 14 7 2 4 1 8 8 -6 19
9 Senglea Athletic 15 3 3 9 15 33 7 2 1 4 6 14 8 1 2 5 9 19 -18 12
10 Mgarr 13 2 4 7 9 21 6 2 1 3 6 10 7 0 3 4 3 11 -12 10
11 Luqa 15 1 4 10 8 33 7 1 1 5 4 17 8 0 3 5 4 16 -25 7