Home advantage could prove decisive in Mbeya City - Namungo battle

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Competition: Tanzania Ligi kuu Bara
Competition: Fri 04.November
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sokoine Stadium (20000 seats)

Both teams are sailing pretty smoothly so far, Namungo holding a 3 point advantage on Mbeya City in the standings. Let's start!

Insights:
  • Mbeya City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Namungo haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Mbeya City and Namungo.

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Mbeya City form and stats

When playing at home in the Ligi kuu Bara, Mbeya City have managed 1 win, 1 draw and suffered 1 defeat from 3 games. Two home wins in a row for Mbeya City bring valid hopes of a third.

Mbeya's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Namungo (placed 4th). The home side are looking to build on that result.

Before that match, a win away at Ruvu Shooting.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Mbeya City have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 17 games) they have won 9 times, drawn 5 and lost 3.

Mbeya are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 4 goals in 3 games.

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Namungo form and stats

The visitors are W1-D1-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Ligi kuu Bara.

Two away games in a row for Namungo, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Mbeya City.

Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Tanzania Prisons.

Namungo are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats. From a total of 6 matches.

The attacking power of Namungo when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 4 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last six meetings: one - one - four (Mbeya wins - draws - Namungo wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.

Mbeya City missing players

Namungo missing players

Mbeya City Namungo
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 4 1 Played P 2 5 10
4 2 0 Won W 0 1 4
3 1 0 Drew D 1 1 3
2 1 1 Lost L 1 3 3
14 6 0 Scored S 2 4 10
10 4 1 Conceded C 3 6 9
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
78% 75% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 60% 50%
56% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 40%
33% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 10%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
78% 75% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 60% 50%
11% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 40%
11% 25% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 20%
 
3.8 3.8 5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.4 4.3
3.9 4.2 2 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4 3.9
1.1 0.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 1.4 1.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.1 7.2 10 Shots (avg) S ( 5 8.8 8.9
4.1 2.5 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1 1.6 2.4
38% 60% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 100% 50% 42%
 
7.7 6 7 Shots against (avg) S A 8 8.6 7.7
2.4 1.8 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 2.4 2.7
Key stats in Ligi kuu Bara this season:
  • Mbeya City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Mbeya City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Namungo 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 8 6 2 0 14 5 4 2 2 0 7 3 4 4 0 0 7 2 9 20
2 Simba 8 5 2 1 17 4 5 4 1 0 15 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 13 17
3 Azam 9 5 2 2 10 7 5 4 1 0 6 2 4 1 1 2 4 5 3 17
4 Namungo 9 4 3 2 9 7 5 3 2 0 6 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 2 15
5 Mtibwa Sugar 10 4 3 3 12 16 5 3 2 0 8 4 5 1 1 3 4 12 -4 15
6 Singida Big Stars 8 4 2 2 7 5 4 3 1 0 4 1 4 1 1 2 3 4 2 14
7 Tanzania Prisons 9 3 4 2 8 6 5 2 2 1 5 3 4 1 2 1 3 3 2 13
8 KMC 10 3 4 3 10 10 4 3 1 0 6 3 6 0 3 3 4 7 0 13
9 Geita Gold 10 3 4 3 9 11 4 1 2 1 4 4 6 2 2 2 5 7 -2 13
10 Mbeya City 8 3 3 2 12 9 3 1 1 1 4 3 5 2 2 1 8 6 3 12
11 Kagera Sugar 10 3 2 5 9 12 5 3 1 1 6 3 5 0 1 4 3 9 -3 11
12 Ruvu Shooting 10 3 1 6 8 11 5 2 0 3 5 6 5 1 1 3 3 5 -3 10
13 Coastal Union 7 2 2 3 4 5 5 2 2 1 3 2 2 0 0 2 1 3 -1 8
14 Polisi Tanzania 10 1 3 6 7 15 5 1 2 2 6 7 5 0 1 4 1 8 -8 6
15 Dodoma Jiji 9 1 3 5 4 12 4 1 0 3 3 6 5 0 3 2 1 6 -8 6
16 Ihefu 9 1 2 6 6 11 4 1 1 2 3 3 5 0 1 4 3 8 -5 5