Abia Warriors got a 0-1 result versus Plateau United in their previous week, a fixture to keep in mind. Next up is this robust Wikki Tourist side.
- Abia Warriors have not yet lost a game at home.
- Abia Warriors have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Wikki Tourist have scored away.
This football pitch has grass, which is not Wikki Tourist's regular surface at their own ground. When appearing on grass Wikki Tourist have performed like this: Played 25 matches producing 2 wins, 6 draws and 17 defeats with the goal production 8-29 (scored/conceded).
Wikki Tourist have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 800 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.
It's no vacation for neither Abia Warriors nor Wikki Tourist as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Abia Warriors form and stats
When playing at home in the Npfl, Abia Warriors have managed 2 wins, 2 draws and suffered 0 defeats from 4 games.
The fans are hoping that Abia Warriors will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the game against Plateau United (placed 5th).
In the match before that, Abia Warriors hosted Akwa Starlets and drew the game 1-1.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Abia Warriors's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played five games, won two matches, drawn two and lost one.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Abia Warriors, as the Npfl home game vs Nasarawa United is only four days away.
Warriors are not conceding a lot of goals here at Enyimba International Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 2 from 4 matches.
Wikki Tourist form and stats
Wikki Tourist are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Npfl, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).
The club members enjoyed Wikki Tourist's previous game versus Nasarawa United (placed 11th), a 2-0 win played at home.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Plateau United.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Wikki Tourist playing away, we found four games. Results were zero away wins, one draw and three home wins.
A quick return to home after this game, as Wikki Tourist are hosting Enugu Rangers in the Npfl only four days away.
There's been a serious shortage of goals from Wikki Tourist's away games in the league this season with only 1 goal from 3 matches. Wikki Tourist are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 2 times in 3 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Abia Warriors-Wikki Tourist H2H statistics last nine meetings regardless of arena: Warriors two wins, Wikki Tourist five wins, two draws. two of these nine matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Abia Warriors missing players
Wikki Tourist missing players
| Abia Warriors | Wikki Tourist | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| 9 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 56% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 38% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 56% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 22% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 50% |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 67% | 25% |
| 4.4 | 6.8 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.5 | 6.6 |
| 2.7 | 3.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4 | 3.6 |
| 1.3 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.9 | 11.5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14 | 14 | 11.9 |
| 2.6 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.5 | 6 |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 11% | 11% | 24% |
| 8.7 | 10.5 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 12 | 7.7 |
| 2.9 | 3.5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | 3.6 |
- Abia Warriors have not yet lost a game at home.
- Abia Warriors have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Wikki Tourist have scored away.
- Abia Warriors have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Abia Warriors have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Abia Warriors haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Wikki Tourist haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Rivers United | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 19 |
| 2 | Remo Stars | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 19 |
| 3 | Enugu Rangers | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 16 |
| 4 | Enyimba | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 16 |
| 5 | Plateau United | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 15 |
| 6 | Wikki Tourist | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 15 |
| 7 | Akwa United | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 8 | Kwara United | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| 9 | Sunshine Stars | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 13 |
| 10 | Kano Pillars | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | -3 | 13 |
| 11 | Nasarawa United | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 12 |
| 12 | Shooting Stars | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -1 | 12 |
| 13 | Lobi Stars | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -4 | 12 |
| 14 | Abia Warriors | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -2 | 9 |
| 15 | Gombe United | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | -2 | 9 |
| 16 | Akwa Starlets | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | -7 | 9 |
| 17 | Niger Tornadoes | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | -5 | 8 |
| 18 | Katsina United | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | -7 | 7 |
| 19 | Heartland | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -11 | 7 |
| 20 | MFM | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | -11 | 6 |
