Coastal Union will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind Simba.
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.
This stadium uses grass, unlike Simba's home stadium. The visitors last 20 games on grass have ended in 13 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses.
Coastal Union form and stats
Coastal Union have played 4 Ligi kuu Bara games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-0 (wins-draws-losses).
Coastal Union enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Mtibwa Sugar's place. The match ended 1-0. A defeat was the result before that one, 1-3 away at Ruvu Shooting.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Ihefu are coming to town in three days.
Coastal Union are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 5 goals in 4 games. Defensively Coastal Union have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (1 in 4 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Simba form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (23) in Ligi kuu Bara, are W2-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Ligi kuu Bara. Simba has drawn their two previous away games.
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Young Africans.
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Simba manager P. Aussems as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Dodoma Jiji.
The travelling fans enjoy Simba's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 6 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Simba as they have only conceded 5 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
As for the last six games between these two teams, there's zero Coastal victories, one draw and five Simba wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.Coastal Union missing players
Simba missing players
| Coastal Union | Simba | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 5 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 23 |
| 10 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| 80% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 83% | 82% |
| 30% | 25% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 45% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 27% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 9% |
| 20% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 67% | 36% |
| 50% | 75% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 17% | 45% |
| 50% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 17% | 18% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.7 | 0.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.2 | 0.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 64 | 43 | 8 | Total Shots | T S | 4 | 34 | 59 |
| 26 | 20 | 3 | Shots on Target | S O | 1 | 16 | 26 |
| 27% | 25% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 50% | 85% |
- Coastal Union have not yet lost a game at home.
- Coastal Union have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Simba has the most matches over the total-line (5) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba has the most scored goals (23) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba has the most scored goals in the first half (12) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba has the the best goal difference (+17) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Simba have scored more than double the goals of Coastal Union.
- Simba haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Azam | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 25 |
| 2 | Young Africans | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 25 |
| 3 | Simba | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 23 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 21 |
| 4 | Biashara United | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -3 | 17 |
| 5 | Ruvu Shooting | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 16 |
| 6 | KMC | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 7 | Polisi Tanzania | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 |
| 8 | Tanzania Prisons | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
| 9 | Namungo | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 14 |
| 10 | Coastal Union | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -3 | 12 |
| 11 | Dodoma Jiji | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -3 | 12 |
| 12 | Mtibwa Sugar | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 11 |
| 13 | JKT Tanzania | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 6 | -2 | 10 |
| 14 | Gwambina | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 10 |
| 15 | Mwadui | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | -12 | 10 |
| 16 | Kagera Sugar | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -6 | 8 |
| 17 | Mbeya City | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -7 | 7 |
| 18 | Ihefu | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | -9 | 5 |