The visiting Akwa United side should be favourites in this visit to Sunshine Stars, as the away team holds a 14 point advantage from their 17 league games this season.
- Akwa United is in the best form (4-2-0)
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!
Sunshine Stars's stadium, Akure Township 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, 5 draws and 7 losses from 14 matches. They have scored 7 goals in these games and conceded 16.
Sunshine Stars form and stats
Overall Npfl stats at home this season for Sunshine Stars are 3-4-2 (wins-draw-losses). The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in eleven attempts.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 181 minutes without scoring a league goal. K. Adeyemi was the last player to find the net.
In their previous game, the manager G. Ogunbote led his Sunshine to a defeat in the Npfl match away at Rivers United. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Akure Township Stadium. Preceding that match was the home game against Enyimba that was lost 0-1.
Sunshine are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 9 goals in 9 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Sunshine are not conceding a lot of goals here at Akure Township Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 9 matches.
Akwa United form and stats
Playing away, Akwa United, who have the the best goal difference (+12) in Npfl, have won 2 games, drawn 3 and suffered 3 defeats in the Npfl this season.
Akwa had fun at their own home (Akure Township Stadium) last time out, beating Lobi Stars 3-0.
Akwa delivered their win in the match against Lobi Stars already in the first half, and could slow the play down in the final 45 minutes to ensure the glorious victory. A solid performance!
The visitors have scored 7 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Akwa United have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sunshine Stars three wins, four draws and Akwa United three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Sunshine Stars missing players
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| Sunshine Stars | Akwa United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 13 | 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 22 |
| 19 | 7 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 8 | 10 |
| 78% | 78% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 88% | 88% |
| 39% | 44% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 62% | 59% |
| 33% | 33% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 38% | 41% |
| 22% | 22% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 39% | 44% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 62% | 41% |
| 33% | 44% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 25% | 53% |
| 50% | 33% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 25% | 18% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.2 | 1.9 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 3.3 | 2.1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6.5 | 6.6 | 7.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 9.2 | 11.1 |
| 2.8 | 3.1 | 3.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| 27% | 32% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 40% | 27% | 33% |
- Akwa United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Akwa United have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Npfl
- Akwa United have the the best goal difference (+12) in Npfl
- Akwa United is in the best form (4-2-0)
| 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 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 23 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 33 |
| 2 | Kano Pillars | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 33 |
| 3 | Akwa United | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 32 |
| 4 | Nasarawa United | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 30 |
| 5 | Enugu Rangers | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 5 | 30 |
| 6 | Rivers United | 17 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 29 |
| 7 | Enyimba | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 27 |
| 8 | Akwa Starlets | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 15 | -5 | 26 |
| 9 | Plateau United | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 25 |
| 10 | Lobi Stars | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 25 |
| 11 | Abia Warriors | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 28 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 24 |
| 12 | Heartland | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 25 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17 | -2 | 23 |
| 13 | Wikki Tourist | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 10 | -1 | 21 |
| 14 | MFM | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | -4 | 20 |
| 15 | Jigawa Golden Stars | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -6 | 19 |
| 16 | Warri Wolves | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 17 | -7 | 19 |
| 17 | Sunshine Stars | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 | -6 | 18 |
| 18 | Katsina United | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 19 | -11 | 18 |
| 19 | Ifeanyi Uba | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 13 | -6 | 15 |
| 20 | Adamawa United | 18 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 16 | -15 | 12 |