Gudja United favourites for feisty fight facing Santa Lucia

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Competition: Malta Premier League
Competition: Sat 04.February
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Gudja Ground (1000 seats)

In total; 17 games are done and Gudja United are 16 points on top of Santa Lucia. What happens today?

Insights:
  • Gudja United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Santa Lucia have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Gudja United form and stats

The story so far in the Premier League for Gudja United at their home stadium (Gudja Ground) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

Gudja United are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 191 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by Tatsu).

Gudja United are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-2 away versus Zebbug Rangers.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Balzan (0-1).

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Gudja handle that role? We have found 4 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 1 win, 0 draws and 3 defeats.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Gudja United as they have a new game in only four days, a Fa Trophy match thankfully also at home. Sirens are visiting.

The Gudja United fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 10 in 9 matches. Gudja have conceded 13 in these home matches.

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Santa Lucia form and stats

Santa Lucia have only collected 4 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 1-1-6 (8 played). Bitter travels for Santa Lucia as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Pietà Hotspurs match.

Santa Lucia are travelling again after losing away to Birkirkara in their previous match (0-2).

Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Zebbug Rangers.

Santa Lucia are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats. From a total of 10 matches.

The visitors have scored 6 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game.

Head 2 Head

The records show that this isn''t the first time these two sides get together this season, as the records show this recent fixture: Santa Lucia - Gudja 1-3. H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Gudja United two wins, four draws and Santa Lucia two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Santa LuciaF. Rodrigues Farias
F. Rodrigues Farias
6 goals
Gudja UnitedV. Plut
V. Plut
5 goals
Gudja UnitedJ. Bezzina
J. Bezzina
3 goals

Gudja United missing players

Santa Lucia missing players

Gudja United Santa Lucia
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
17 9 3 Played P 2 8 17
7 3 2 Won W 0 1 2
3 2 0 Drew D 0 1 2
7 4 1 Lost L 2 6 13
19 10 4 Scored S 1 6 12
22 13 3 Conceded C 4 16 34
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
71% 67% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 88% 82%
47% 56% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 53%
12% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 38% 35%
6% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
53% 56% 67% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 47%
18% 11% 33% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 6%
29% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 50% 53%
 
4.5 4.6 5.7 Corners for (avg) C F 6.5 5.2 4.9
4 4.6 5 Corners against (avg) C A 2.5 4.1 4.6
3 3.6 3.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.9 2.2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
7.8 9.3 9.7 Shots (avg) S ( 10.5 9.8 8.2
3.6 4 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 3.4 2.4
31% 28% 31% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 22% 26%
 
8.4 9.9 10.3 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 12.2 12.1
3.5 4.6 4.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 6.4 6.1
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Gudja United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Gudja United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Santa Lucia have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Santa Lucia have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Santa Lucia haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hamrun Spartans 17 15 1 1 29 8 8 8 0 0 14 1 9 7 1 1 15 7 21 46
2 Gzira United 17 10 5 2 29 10 8 4 2 2 12 5 9 6 3 0 17 5 19 35
3 Birkirkara 17 10 4 3 32 11 9 6 2 1 17 4 8 4 2 2 15 7 21 34
4 Hibernians 17 9 3 5 24 20 9 5 1 3 11 13 8 4 2 2 13 7 4 30
5 Mosta 17 9 2 6 30 24 8 4 1 3 13 12 9 5 1 3 17 12 6 29
6 Balzan 17 8 3 6 21 18 8 2 2 4 8 10 9 6 1 2 13 8 3 27
7 Floriana 17 7 5 5 17 12 8 4 3 1 8 4 9 3 2 4 9 8 5 26
8 Valletta 17 6 6 5 26 16 8 1 5 2 5 4 9 5 1 3 21 12 10 24
9 Gudja United 17 7 3 7 19 22 9 3 2 4 10 13 8 4 1 3 9 9 -3 24
10 Sirens 17 4 7 6 15 22 8 2 3 3 11 14 9 2 4 3 4 8 -7 19
11 Marsaxlokk 17 3 6 8 16 23 9 1 2 6 8 17 8 2 4 2 8 6 -7 15
12 Zebbug Rangers 17 3 1 13 17 35 9 3 0 6 11 14 8 0 1 7 6 21 -18 10
13 Santa Lucia 17 2 2 13 12 34 9 1 1 7 6 18 8 1 1 6 6 16 -22 8
14 Pietà Hotspurs 17 1 2 14 11 43 9 0 1 8 8 27 8 1 1 6 3 16 -32 5