Katsina United will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 3 points behind Akwa United.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Katsina United's stadium, Muhammadu Dikko Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Akwa United have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Akwa United when playing on artifical turf; 2 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses from eleven matches. They have scored 6 goals in these games and conceded 13.
These teams have little in common geographically as Akwa United have to travel 1100 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Katsina United form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Muhammadu Dikko Stadium as Katsina United have scored 14 goals to get 27 points from 11 games. The overall stats in the Npfl are 8-3-0 (wins-draws-losses). The Katsina United fans aren't used to losing league-games here at Muhammadu Dikko Stadium and will expect new points from this game. Katsina United has played eleven games in a row here without a defeat.
The fans are hoping that Katsina United will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-3 away loss in the Npfl game against Nasarawa United (placed 14th).
Katsina United are traveling soon after this match as the Npfl match at Sunshine Stars awaits in three days.
Katsina United has scored 14 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. As for guarding their own goal, Katsina United have only let in 5 goals at home.
Akwa United form and stats
The visitors are W3-D3-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Npfl.
There might be some fixture complaints from Akwa United as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the Npfl match against Abia Warriors (1-2). A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Warri Wolves.
Akwa United has another fixture away, a Npfl game, against Nasarawa United in just three days. A tough schedule for the visitors!
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Akwa United as they have only managed to score 7 times from 11 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Akwa United have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Akwa United - Katsina United 0-0. Last three meetings between the teams: Katsina United won one, Akwa United won one and one draw. zero games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.Katsina United missing players
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 11 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 11 | 23 |
| 8 | 8 | 2 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 15 | 14 | 4 | Scored | S | 4 | 7 | 22 |
| 22 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 5 | 13 | 21 |
| 86% | 91% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 82% | 78% |
| 57% | 45% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 55% | 57% |
| 19% | 18% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 36% | 35% |
| 10% | 9% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 9% | 17% |
| 5% | 9% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 24% | 36% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 36% | 39% |
| 43% | 64% | 75% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 36% | 43% |
| 48% | 9% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 45% | 39% |
| 3.1 | 1.8 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 4.7 | 7.4 |
| 4.8 | 1.2 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4.1 | 2.8 |
| 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 59 | 12 | 12 | Total Shots | T S | 30 | 54 | 187 |
| 22 | 5 | 5 | Shots on Target | S O | 12 | 21 | 78 |
| 27% | 120% | 80% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 19% | 24% |
- Akwa United have created more than twice as many corners as Katsina United.
- Akwa United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Akwa United have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Akwa United have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Katsina United has the fewest scored goals (15)
- Katsina United have not yet lost a game at home.
- Katsina United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Katsina United have won significantly less corners at home than 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 | Plateau United | 23 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 32 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 43 |
| 2 | Rivers United | 23 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 25 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 42 |
| 3 | Lobi Stars | 23 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 40 |
| 4 | Sunshine Stars | 23 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 26 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 34 |
| 5 | Akwa Starlets | 24 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 23 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 34 |
| 6 | Akwa United | 23 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 22 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 33 |
| 7 | Kano Pillars | 22 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 31 |
| 8 | Enyimba | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 20 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 30 |
| 9 | Warri Wolves | 22 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 30 |
| 10 | Ifeanyi Uba | 23 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 23 | 26 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 24 | -3 | 30 |
| 11 | Katsina United | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 17 | -7 | 30 |
| 12 | Delta Force | 14 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 17 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -5 | 19 |
| 12 | Heartland | 23 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 13 | -1 | 29 |
| 13 | Enugu Rangers | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 28 |
| 14 | Nasarawa United | 23 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 26 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 28 |
| 15 | MFM | 23 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 28 |
| 16 | Wikki Tourist | 23 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 22 | 23 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 13 | -1 | 28 |
| 17 | Abia Warriors | 23 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 16 | -5 | 27 |
| 18 | Jigawa Golden Stars | 23 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 23 | 32 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 22 | -9 | 26 |
| 19 | Kwara United | 23 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 31 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 23 | -10 | 25 |
| 20 | Adamawa United | 23 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 16 | 43 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 32 | -27 | 20 |