Katsina United will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 8 points behind Plateau United.
It's no vacation for neither Katsina United nor Plateau United 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.
Katsina United form and stats
Katsina United are steadily winning Npfl games and points here. 4 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats is the summary from 6 games.
The home team returns after sharing the points with Wikki Tourist (placed 10th) on their last time out; the Npfl game ended 1-1. Before that game, the 3-2 home victory against Jigawa Golden Stars.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Katsina United as they are travelling to their away game against Delta Force in the Npfl. That match is four days after this one.
Katsina United has scored 8 league goals at home this season, in 6 matches. Defensively Katsina United have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (3 in 6 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Plateau United form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (20) in Npfl, are W2-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Npfl.
The supporters enjoyed Plateau United's previous game versus Enyimba (placed 13th), a Npfl 4-0 win played at home. Preceding that game, the 0-3 loss visiting Abia Warriors's place.
As mentioned above, Plateau United was the only team on the pitch versus Enyimba in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Akwa United in just four days.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 6 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 6 goals have been conceded by Plateau United in these games.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last three meetings between these two teams are: 1 win for Katsina United, 1 draw and 1 win for Plateau United. Over 2,5 goals: 0 times; under 2,5 goals: 3 games.Katsina United missing players
Plateau United missing players
| Katsina United | Plateau United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | 8 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 20 |
| 13 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 83% | 83% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 83% | 83% |
| 58% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 58% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 33% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 25% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 42% | 67% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 42% |
| 50% | 17% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| 1.9 | 0 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.2 | 2.4 |
| 4.5 | 0 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 3.4 | 2.2 |
| 1.9 | 0 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 33 | 62 |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 12 | 28 |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 54% |
- Katsina United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- 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.
- Plateau United has the most scored goals (20)
- Plateau United has the most scored goals in the second half (9)
- Plateau United has the the best goal difference (+11)
- Plateau United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Plateau United have scored more than double the goals of Katsina United.
- Plateau United have won significantly more corners away than at home.
| 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 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 24 |
| 2 | Lobi Stars | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 21 |
| 3 | Rivers United | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 21 |
| 4 | Akwa Starlets | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 20 |
| 5 | Akwa United | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 19 |
| 6 | Abia Warriors | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| 7 | Ifeanyi Uba | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -2 | 17 |
| 8 | MFM | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 16 |
| 9 | Sunshine Stars | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 16 |
| 10 | Wikki Tourist | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 16 |
| 11 | Katsina United | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -4 | 16 |
| 12 | Kano Pillars | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 13 | Enyimba | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 15 |
| 14 | Heartland | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | -3 | 15 |
| 15 | Warri Wolves | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 14 |
| 16 | Delta Force | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 16 | -9 | 13 |
| 17 | Jigawa Golden Stars | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -6 | 10 |
| 18 | Nasarawa United | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 10 |
| 19 | Adamawa United | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 15 | -13 | 10 |
| 20 | Enugu Rangers | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 6 |