With the nervous opening fixture done it’s time for the second Npfl battle of the season. Bendel Insurance look forward to welcoming Sunshine Stars in front of their home support.
- Bendel Insurance have not yet lost a game.
- Sunshine Stars have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
This arena uses grass, unlike Sunshine Stars's home stadium. The former 19 games by the guests on grass have seen 2 wins, 6 draws and 11 losses.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Bendel Insurance form and stats
In the previous season, Bendel Insurance's league statistics were 9 wins, 12 draws and 17 losses, producing 20th place in the Premier League. During these 38 matches they scored {26 goals} and let in 45. Performing at home in the former season Bendel Insurance managed 9-9-1 (win-draw-lost) with {21 goals} and 10 conceded. When playing at home in the Npfl, Bendel Insurance have managed 0 wins, 1 draw and suffered 0 defeats from 1 games.
Insurance drew their last game, also a home match. Lobi Stars (placed 4th) was the opponent, 0-0 the score.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Nasarawa United that finished 1-1.Sports gamblers, take note: A review of the 10 latest league games highlights that 8 of them had goals from both sides.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Bendel Insurance, as the Npfl home game vs Enyimba is only two days away.
Bendel Insurance has scored {0 goals-1} so far and conceded {0 goals-2} from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Sunshine Stars form and stats
Let's have a look at how Sunshine Stars performed last season in the Npfl: They landed a 11th position in the league table after playing out 14 victories, 9 draws and 15 defeats. In total they scored 30 and conceded {30 goals} in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 0 - drew 6 and lost 13 with 3/22 goals scored/conceded.
Sunshine Stars might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Rivers United proved too strong as Sunshine Stars slumped to a 0-1 defeat in front of their own fans at Akure Township Stadium.
Prior to that match, a home win 3-0 against Akwa Starlets.Low on goals? 15 of this side's last 19 league fixtures have seen two goals or less.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only two days as another away game awaits: The Npfl trip to Remo Stars.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last four meetings): Bendel Insurance won one game, two matches ended with a tie and Sunshine Stars got one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: zero / four.
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| Bendel Insurance | Sunshine Stars | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 10 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 9 | 19 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 22 | 12 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 8 | 20 |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 11 | 15 |
| 84% | 80% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 63% | 60% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 78% | 63% |
| 21% | 30% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 21% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 53% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 67% | 47% |
| 47% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 37% |
| 16% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 22% | 16% |
| 2.5 | 2.4 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 1.9 | 2.7 |
| 3.6 | 0.4 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5.1 | 3.6 |
| 1.5 | 0.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.7 | 1.9 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4.9 | 4.7 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 3.9 | 6.3 |
| 1.7 | 1.2 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 1.4 | 2.4 |
| 66% | 91% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 60% | 42% |
| 5.8 | 2.8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 7.1 | 7.1 |
| 1.5 | 0.7 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
- Bendel Insurance have not yet lost a game.
- Bendel Insurance have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Bendel Insurance have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Bendel Insurance have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Sunshine Stars have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Sunshine Stars have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sunshine Stars have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Sunshine Stars 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Enyimba | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Remo Stars | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Lobi Stars | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Bendel Insurance | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Sunshine Stars | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
