Ligi kuu Bara: Coastal Union are 5 points after Mbeya City, but are motivated to go all in. Bring it on!
- Coastal Union have the fewest scored goals (4) at home in Ligi kuu Bara
- Mbeya City have the most conceded goals (34) in Ligi kuu Bara
It's quite the trip for Mbeya City when visiting Coastal Union as the cities are 900 kilometers apart.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Coastal Union form and stats
The story so far in the Ligi kuu Bara for Coastal Union at their home stadium (Mkwakwani Stadium) is 2 wins, 4 draws and 3 defeats. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.
Stress levels are on the rise for Coastal Union's attacking players as they have now played 300 minutes without scoring in a league game. Maabad was their last goal scorer.
Coastal are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Geita Gold. The first setback in the shape of a loss after going undefeated through four league matches.
0-0 away at Kagera Sugar before that.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Coastal Union have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 16 matches with the results: Won 7, drawn 6 and lost 3.
The lack of attacking qualities in Coastal Union means that they have only scored {4 goals} in 9 league home games, less than half a goal per match. Coastal are not conceding a lot of goals here at Mkwakwani Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 9 matches. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Mbeya City form and stats
Mbeya City have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Ligi kuu Bara, after 2-3-5 (10 played). The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on the Mbeya City manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Two away games in a row for Mbeya, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus Ihefu.
That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Mtibwa Sugar.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 12 similar matches played by Mbeya City in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Mbeya City, 2 draws and 8 defeats.
Mbeya are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 12 away goals from 10 games (in the league).
Head 2 Head
The previous head-to-head game ended Mbeya City - Coastal Union 2-2, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - three - four (Coastal wins - draws - Mbeya City wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.
Coastal Union missing players
Mbeya City missing players
| Coastal Union | Mbeya City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 10 | 22 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 11 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 18 | 4 | 3 | Scored | S | 6 | 12 | 27 |
| 28 | 7 | 1 | Conceded | C | 3 | 20 | 34 |
| 82% | 67% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 59% | 44% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 90% | 82% |
| 41% | 11% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 50% | 50% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 40% | 32% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 9% |
| 36% | 11% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 75% | 70% | 73% |
| 32% | 56% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 10% | 14% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 18% |
| 4.3 | 4.1 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 2.9 | 4 |
| 4 | 3.4 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.3 | 4.2 |
| 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8.8 | 7.1 | 6.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.5 | 9 | 7.7 |
| 2.1 | 1.3 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 3.2 | 2.6 |
| 35% | 33% | 60% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 38% | 45% |
| 9.4 | 7.9 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 6.9 | 5.9 |
| 3 | 1.6 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
- Coastal Union have the fewest scored goals (4) at home in Ligi kuu Bara
- Mbeya City have scored at least twice as many goals away as Coastal Union have scored home.
- Mbeya City have the fewest clean sheets (3) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Mbeya City have the most conceded goals (34) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Mbeya City have the most conceded goals in the second half (19) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Mbeya City have the most points from losing position (12) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Mbeya City have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Mbeya City haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Young Africans | 22 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 41 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 31 | 59 |
| 2 | Simba | 22 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 54 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 7 | 41 | 53 |
| 3 | Singida Big Stars | 23 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 26 | 19 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 44 |
| 4 | Azam | 22 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 43 |
| 5 | Geita Gold | 23 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 28 | 29 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 13 | -1 | 34 |
| 6 | Namungo | 22 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 15 | -4 | 29 |
| 7 | Mtibwa Sugar | 23 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 26 | 33 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 19 | -7 | 29 |
| 8 | Ihefu | 23 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 22 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 16 | -3 | 27 |
| 9 | Kagera Sugar | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 23 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 14 | -3 | 26 |
| 10 | Mbeya City | 22 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 27 | 34 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 20 | -7 | 24 |
| 11 | Dodoma Jiji | 23 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 29 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 16 | -12 | 24 |
| 12 | KMC | 22 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 25 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 13 | -5 | 23 |
| 13 | Tanzania Prisons | 22 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 30 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 16 | -12 | 22 |
| 14 | Coastal Union | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 28 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 21 | -10 | 19 |
| 15 | Ruvu Shooting | 23 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 28 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 12 | -14 | 17 |
| 16 | Polisi Tanzania | 22 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 32 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 17 | -15 | 16 |
