League round two of the Gozo First Division season and the teams have had a few days to digest the first fixture. Here's the best Victoria Hotspurs - Xewkija preview:
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Victoria Hotspurs form and stats
The season before, Victoria Hotspurs's league stats were 8 wins, 6 draws and 7 losses, leading to 4th spot in the Gozo First Division. During these 21 matches they scored 36 goals and conceded 33. Playing as the home team in the previous season Victoria Hotspurs managed 4-1-5 (win-draw-lost) with 18 goals and 17 conceded. The home fans saw their team lose the first Gozo First Division game of the season here at Gozo Stadium. Last season these fans witnessed 4 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses from Victoria Hotspurs's 10 home games.
The Victoria crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 3-5 to Nadur here at Gozo Stadium. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
Before that game, the 3-1 home victory against Xewkija.Victoria Hotspurs has scored 3 goals so far and conceded 5 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Xewkija form and stats
Let's have a look at how Xewkija performed last season in the Gozo First Division: They landed a 5th position in the league table after playing out 6 victories, 5 draws and 10 defeats. In total they scored 35 and conceded 50 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 1 and lost 7 with 16/29 goals scored/conceded. Xewkija have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the Gozo First Division were 2 victories, 1 draw and 7 defeats from 10 fixtures.
Xewkija are travelling again after losing away to Kercem Ajax in their previous match (0-1).
A 1-3 defeat away at Victoria Hotspurs before that.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Nadur in just four days.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Xewkija has managed 0 goals and let in 1 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last three meetings: one - one - one (Victoria Hotspurs wins - draws - Xewkija wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero had two or less.
Victoria Hotspurs missing players
Xewkija missing players
| Victoria Hotspurs | Xewkija | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Victoria Hotspurs | Last season | Xewkija | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 21 | 10 | Played | P | 10 | 21 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Won | W | 2 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 5 | Lost | L | 7 | 10 | ||
| 36 | 18 | Scored | S | 16 | 35 | ||
| 33 | 17 | Conceded | C | 29 | 50 | ||
| 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 90% | 90% | ||
| 76% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 90% | 86% | ||
| 62% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 70% | 67% | ||
| 52% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 60% | 52% | ||
| 29% | 40% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 38% | ||
| 67% | 70% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 57% | ||
| 19% | 10% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 19% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 40% | 33% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Nadur | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Qala Saints | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Kercem Ajax | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Ghajnsielem | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 3 |
| 5 | Xewkija | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
| 6 | Victoria Hotspurs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 7 | Oratory | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -5 | 0 |
| 8 | Sannat Lions | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -8 | 0 |
| Last season | Total | Home | Away | ||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Nadur | 21 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 70 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 40 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 4 | 56 | 56 |
| 2 | Ghajnsielem | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 45 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 25 | 12 | 18 | 38 |
| 3 | Kercem Ajax | 21 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 47 | 48 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 23 | -1 | 34 |
| 4 | Victoria Hotspurs | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 36 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 3 | 30 |
| 5 | Xewkija | 21 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 50 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 29 | -15 | 23 |
| 6 | Oratory | 21 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 25 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 17 | -7 | 21 |
| 7 | Sannat Lions | 21 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 56 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 34 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 22 | -35 | 17 |
| 8 | Victoria Wanderers | 21 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 35 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 17 | -19 | 14 |
