Diamond Stars vs Ports Authority: Soccer betting preview

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Competition: Sierra Leone Premier League
Competition: Sun 01.May
Match begins: 16:15 (UTC)
Venue: Koidu Sports Stadium (10500 seats)

Diamond Stars are aching to add to their goals scored at their own stadium in this upcoming fixture vs Ports Authority.

Insights:
  • Diamond Stars have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ports Authority have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Diamond Stars form and stats

Diamond Stars have collected 17 points from their Premier League home games so far after 5-2-6. When Diamond Stars hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Old Edwardians, Diamond Stars, Anti Drugs Strikers, Police and Bai Bureh Warriors), they have won 3 of 3 matches! The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Koidu Sports Stadium.

A good away victory last time out for Diamond Stars, who won 4-1 against RSLAF (placed 11th).

In the game before, an away victory match versus Johansen with a 3-1 scoreline.

Diamond Stars have scored 11 league goals here from 13 matches, not a lot. Diamond Stars have only conceded 9 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. Diamond has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 3 times.

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Ports Authority form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Premier League travels is 5 wins, 3 draws and 7 defeats. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Ports Authority, as they have won on their previous two travels.

Ports Authority play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Police (placed 18th).

Preceding that game was the away victory against RSLAF with the score of 1-0.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Authority's away games in the league this season with only 7 goals from 15 matches. It's not easy to score on Ports Authority as they have only conceded 12 goals from these away games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two sides faced each other before this match year: Ports Authority - Diamond Stars 1-0. Diamond-Ports Authority H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Diamond Stars zero wins, Ports Authority two wins, two draws. one of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Diamond Stars missing players

Ports Authority missing players

Diamond Stars Ports Authority
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
28 13 3 Played P 4 15 28
9 5 3 Won W 1 5 8
5 2 0 Drew D 1 3 10
14 6 0 Lost L 2 7 10
23 11 6 Scored S 2 7 12
23 9 1 Conceded C 3 12 17
86% 85% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 87% 71%
32% 31% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 25% 27% 25%
21% 23% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 13% 7%
14% 8% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
11% 8% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
21% 15% 33% BTTS BTTS 25% 13% 11%
32% 38% 67% Clean Sheets C S 25% 40% 54%
61% 62% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 60% 64%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 0 0
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Diamond Stars have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ports Authority have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 East End Lions 28 17 7 4 39 17 14 10 2 2 23 8 14 7 5 2 16 9 22 58
2 Bo Rangers 28 18 3 7 33 17 14 13 0 1 20 3 14 5 3 6 13 14 16 57
3 Kamboi Eagles 28 11 10 7 33 26 14 7 5 2 23 15 14 4 5 5 10 11 7 43
4 East End Tigers 28 11 10 7 26 24 14 5 6 3 11 10 14 6 4 4 15 14 2 43
5 Mighty Blackpool 28 11 9 8 22 16 14 6 5 3 13 7 14 5 4 5 9 9 6 42
6 Wusum Stars 29 11 9 9 25 27 14 6 6 2 15 10 15 5 3 7 10 17 -2 42
7 Kallon 28 11 8 9 36 18 15 7 3 5 25 8 13 4 5 4 11 10 18 41
8 Freetown City 28 9 11 8 19 17 14 2 6 6 4 11 14 7 5 2 15 6 2 38
9 Johansen 28 9 11 8 19 18 15 4 6 5 10 11 13 5 5 3 9 7 1 38
10 Central Parade 26 10 7 9 20 30 13 4 4 5 9 18 13 6 3 4 11 12 -10 37
11 RSLAF 28 8 10 10 17 20 14 5 3 6 8 11 14 3 7 4 9 9 -3 34
12 SLIFA Mount Aureol 28 8 10 10 26 31 13 4 3 6 12 16 15 4 7 4 14 15 -5 34
13 Ports Authority 28 8 10 10 12 17 13 3 7 3 5 5 15 5 3 7 7 12 -5 34
14 Diamond Stars 28 9 5 14 23 23 13 5 2 6 11 9 15 4 3 8 12 14 0 32
15 Bai Bureh Warriors 28 7 7 14 19 26 15 6 4 5 14 13 13 1 3 9 5 13 -7 28
16 Old Edwardians 28 5 12 11 21 28 13 3 5 5 12 11 15 2 7 6 9 17 -7 27
17 Anti Drugs Strikers 28 6 9 13 17 30 14 3 7 4 9 9 14 3 2 9 8 21 -13 27
18 Police 27 4 8 15 9 31 15 3 4 8 5 12 12 1 4 7 4 19 -22 20