Struggling Marsa will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Santa Lucia in the upcoming league round. It’s 14th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
Marsa and Santa Lucia should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
This stadium uses artificial turf, unlike Santa Lucia's home stadium. The visitors last eight games on artificial turf have ended in 4 wins, 4 draws and 0 losses.
Marsa form and stats
Marsa's struggle is real here at MFA Centenary Stadium with only 4 points collected from 12 games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly 1-1-10. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in 19 attempts. With ten home games in a row without a win, the Marsa fans could feel they are not getting value for their money. It remains to be seen whether this unfortunate streak, which started after the Gharghur game long ago, can be stopped today.The fans are hoping that Marsa will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-3 away loss in the First Division game against Zejtun Corinthians. Preceding that match was the home game against Qrendi that was lost 2-3.
Marsa have scored 7 goals here in 12 matches, not a lot. Marsa's defense is seriously deficient as 37 goals have been conceded in these matches.
Santa Lucia form and stats
The visitors are W6-D5-L1 on the road this term.Santa Lucia are travelling after their nice 3-1 home win in the First Division against Swieqi. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Vittoriosa Stars at their stadium, the result 3-1.
With an average of more than two away goals per game, Santa Lucia are regular goalscorers on their travels. Santa Lucia have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Santa Lucia - Marsa 7-1. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's 0 Marsa victories, 0 draws and 2 Santa Lucia wins.Marsa missing players
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| Marsa | Santa Lucia | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | Played | 12 | 24 |
| 17 | 7 | Scored | 29 | 56 |
| 75 | 37 | Conceded | 13 | 30 |
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 96% |
| 88% | 83% | Over 1.5 | 92% | 88% |
| 79% | 75% | Over 2.5 | 75% | 71% |
| 46% | 33% | Over 3.5 | 50% | 54% |
| 29% | 25% | Over 4.5 | 25% | 29% |
| 54% | 33% | Both teams to score | 67% | 67% |
| 12% | 17% | Clean Sheet | 25% | 21% |
| 42% | 58% | Failed To Score | 8% | 17% |
| 1.3 | 1.9 | Corners For (avg) | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| 4.5 | 5.2 | Corners Against (avg) | 1.5 | 1.7 |
| 1.2 | 0.9 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 1 | Red Cards (total) | 0 | 2 |
- Santa Lucia hasn't played a single 0-0 game away.
- Santa Lucia is involved in more matches over 2.5 away, than home.
| 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 | Sirens | 24 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 59 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 36 | 12 | 40 | 55 |
| 2 | Gudja United | 24 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 41 | 25 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 16 | 49 |
| 3 | Santa Lucia | 24 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 56 | 30 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 29 | 13 | 26 | 42 |
| 4 | Naxxar Lions | 24 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 40 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 16 | 6 | 39 |
| 5 | Pembroke Athleta | 24 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 32 | 20 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 13 | 12 | 38 |
| 6 | Zebbug Rangers | 24 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 34 | 27 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 36 |
| 7 | Lija Athletic | 24 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 45 | 42 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 15 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 27 | 3 | 34 |
| 8 | Swieqi | 24 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 37 | 36 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 21 | 15 | 1 | 34 |
| 9 | Zejtun Corinthians | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 32 | 28 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 31 |
| 10 | Mqabba | 24 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 23 | 36 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 16 | -13 | 31 |
| 11 | Vittoriosa Stars | 24 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 25 | 34 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -9 | 27 |
| 12 | Qrendi | 24 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 37 | 49 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 26 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 23 | -12 | 26 |
| 13 | San Gwann | 24 | 6 | 1 | 17 | 26 | 49 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 23 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 26 | -23 | 19 |
| 14 | Marsa | 24 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 17 | 75 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 37 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 38 | -58 | 5 |
| 14 | Marsa | 17 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 52 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 26 | -40 | 5 |
| 15 | Racing Santander | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 16 | Cultural Leonesa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
