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.
- 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).
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.
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
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| Katsina United | Kwara United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | 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% |
- 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 |