Npfl match preview: Katsina United versus Kwara United

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Competition: Nigeria Npfl
Competition: Sun 28.March
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Muhammadu Dikko Stadium (35000 seats)

Struggling Katsina United will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Kwara United in the upcoming league round. It’s 16th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Katsina United have not yet lost a game at home.
  • Kwara United have the most clean sheets (9) in Npfl

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!

This pitch has artifical turf, which is not Kwara United's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on artifical turf Kwara United have performed like this: Played 21 matches resulting in 2 wins, 2 draws and 17 defeats with the goal stats 10-36 (scored/conceded).

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Katsina United form and stats

Katsina United have performed here at Muhammadu Dikko Stadium this season with 5 wins from 8 Npfl matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 3 games and lost 0.

Katsina United are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 8 games. As for guarding their own goal, Katsina have only let in 3 goals at home. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Kwara United form and stats

2 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Kwara United, who have the most clean sheets (9) in Npfl, playing as the away team in the Npfl this season.

A 0-2 defeat away at Kano Pillars before that.

As mentioned above, Kwara United was the only team on the pitch versus Adamawa United in their previous game, winning 5-0. This could be a tougher task.

The visitors have scored 5 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Kwara have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Katsina one win, zero draws and Kwara United three victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.

Katsina United missing players

Kwara United missing players

Katsina United Kwara United
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 8 2 Played P 3 8 17
5 5 2 Won W 1 2 8
3 3 0 Drew D 2 3 6
9 0 0 Lost L 0 3 3
12 10 4 Scored S 2 5 21
22 3 1 Conceded C 1 8 11
82% 62% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 33% 75% 82%
59% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 62% 65%
41% 25% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 25% 29%
12% 12% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 6%
6% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
24% 25% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 25% 29%
35% 75% 50% Clean Sheets C S 67% 38% 53%
59% 38% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 62% 35%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 1.3 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.7 1.7 1.6
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
8.9 11.3 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9.7 6.9 9.3
2.4 3.1 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 2.7 3.5
24% 32% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 16% 34%
Key stats in Npfl this season:
  • 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.
  • Kwara United have the most clean sheets (9) in Npfl
  • Kwara United have the most scored goals in the second half (16) in Npfl
  • Kwara United have the the best goal difference (+10) in Npfl

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Kwara United 17 8 6 3 21 11 9 6 3 0 16 3 8 2 3 3 5 8 10 30
2 Kano Pillars 17 9 3 5 20 15 8 7 1 0 11 1 9 2 2 5 9 14 5 30
3 Akwa United 16 8 5 3 19 10 8 6 2 0 12 2 8 2 3 3 7 8 9 29
4 Nasarawa United 16 8 3 5 18 12 8 6 1 1 14 5 8 2 2 4 4 7 6 27
5 Enugu Rangers 16 8 3 5 16 12 8 7 1 0 11 1 8 1 2 5 5 11 4 27
6 Rivers United 16 8 2 6 18 14 7 7 0 0 14 1 9 1 2 6 4 13 4 26
7 Lobi Stars 16 7 4 5 19 14 9 7 2 0 16 5 7 0 2 5 3 9 5 25
8 Abia Warriors 17 6 6 5 25 18 9 6 1 2 18 8 8 0 5 3 7 10 7 24
9 Enyimba 12 7 3 2 13 9 6 5 1 0 8 3 6 2 2 2 5 6 4 24
10 Heartland 17 6 5 6 22 23 9 5 3 1 15 8 8 1 2 5 7 15 -1 23
11 Akwa Starlets 16 7 2 7 17 23 8 6 1 1 14 8 8 1 1 6 3 15 -6 23
12 Plateau United 16 6 4 6 20 13 8 6 1 1 17 5 8 0 3 5 3 8 7 22
13 Wikki Tourist 17 5 5 7 13 14 9 5 3 1 10 4 8 0 2 6 3 10 -1 20
14 Sunshine Stars 16 4 6 6 13 17 8 3 4 1 9 6 8 1 2 5 4 11 -4 18
15 Jigawa Golden Stars 15 5 3 7 9 15 7 4 2 1 5 2 8 1 1 6 4 13 -6 18
16 Katsina United 17 5 3 9 12 22 8 5 3 0 10 3 9 0 0 9 2 19 -10 18
17 MFM 16 4 5 7 11 16 8 4 2 2 9 6 8 0 3 5 2 10 -5 17
18 Warri Wolves 17 4 4 9 11 20 8 4 3 1 8 3 9 0 1 8 3 17 -9 16
19 Ifeanyi Uba 15 3 5 7 9 13 8 3 3 2 6 3 7 0 2 5 3 10 -4 14
20 Adamawa United 17 2 5 10 7 22 8 2 4 2 7 6 9 0 1 8 0 16 -15 11

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The Nigerian Professional Fotball League (NPFL) is the highest level of football in Nigeria. It has earlier been known as the Nigerian Premier League, Nigerian Premiership, Nigerian Professional League and other names. It currently holds two divisions each with twelve teams. The top three teams in each division qualify for a championship playoff.