Can Mbeya City beat Ruvu Shooting in Nelson Mandela Stadium clash?

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Competition: Tanzania Ligi kuu Bara
Competition: Fri 10.March
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Nelson Mandela Stadium

The home crowds look for a win and three points in this fixture, and the home advantage could be decisive versus a stumbling visitor. Mbeya City are in 10th spot while the guesting Ruvu Shooting worry at 15th.

Insights:
  • Mbeya City have the most conceded goals (37) in Ligi kuu Bara
  • Ruvu Shooting have the fewest scored goals (16) in Ligi kuu Bara

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 Ruvu Shooting.

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Mbeya City form and stats

3-6-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Ligi kuu Bara numbers at home for Mbeya City so far this season.

The Mbeya fans got no joy from their last match, also played here at Nelson Mandela Stadium: A 1-2 defeat against Ruvu Shooting (placed 15th).

In the game before, an away victory match versus Polisi Tanzania with a 1-0 scoreline.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Mbeya City handle that role? We have found 23 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 10 wins, 7 draws and 6 defeats.

Mbeya City are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 16 goals in 13 games. Mbeya have conceded 16 in these home matches.

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Ruvu Shooting form and stats

Ruvu Shooting have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Ligi kuu Bara, after 2-3-7 (12 played).

It's the second away game in a row for Ruvu Shooting, but there's smiles all around after the 2-1 victory versus Mbeya City (placed 10th) last time out.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Kagera Sugar.

Ruvu Shooting are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 7 draws and 8 defeats. From a total of 18 matches.

The attacking power of Shooting when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 12 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Ruvu Shooting have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

The latest archived match between these participants is the Mbeya City - Ruvu Shooting 1-2 played earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's five Mbeya City victories, one draw and four Ruvu Shooting wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, seven matches with two goals or less.

Mbeya City missing players

Ruvu Shooting missing players

Mbeya City Ruvu Shooting
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
25 13 4 Played P 4 12 25
6 3 1 Won W 1 2 5
9 6 1 Drew D 0 3 5
10 4 2 Lost L 3 7 15
29 16 7 Scored S 3 8 16
37 16 7 Conceded C 5 13 30
96% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 75% 84%
76% 77% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 42% 48%
48% 54% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 42% 40%
28% 23% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 8% 8%
8% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 4%
68% 77% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 42% 40%
16% 15% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 33% 24%
20% 15% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 50% 52%
 
4 5.2 9.3 Corners for (avg) C F 2.7 3.5 3.7
3.8 4.6 3 Corners against (avg) C A 3 4.7 4.3
1.2 1.1 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.3 1.3 1.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
7.5 6.8 6.7 Shots (avg) S ( 5.7 6.9 8
2.6 2.2 2.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 2.5 2.7
44% 54% 71% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 26% 23%
 
5.6 5.1 4 Shots against (avg) S A 12.7 10.9 10.7
2 1.6 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.7 4.5 4.1
Key stats in Ligi kuu Bara this season:
  • Mbeya City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Mbeya City have the most conceded goals (37) in Ligi kuu Bara
  • Mbeya City have the most points from losing position (12) in Ligi kuu Bara
  • Mbeya City have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Ruvu Shooting have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Ruvu Shooting have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Ligi kuu Bara
  • Ruvu Shooting have the fewest scored goals (16) in Ligi kuu Bara
  • Ruvu Shooting have the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Ligi kuu Bara

  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 23 20 2 1 42 10 12 10 2 0 24 4 11 10 0 1 18 6 32 62
2 Simba 23 16 6 1 55 14 11 9 2 0 31 7 12 7 4 1 24 7 41 54
3 Azam 24 14 5 5 39 24 12 10 1 1 24 9 12 4 4 4 15 15 15 47
4 Singida Big Stars 24 14 5 5 28 19 12 9 2 1 16 5 12 5 3 4 12 14 9 47
5 Geita Gold 24 8 10 6 29 31 13 5 6 2 16 16 11 3 4 4 13 15 -2 34
6 Kagera Sugar 25 8 8 9 22 25 13 6 5 2 15 9 12 2 3 7 7 16 -3 32
7 Namungo 24 9 5 10 21 25 10 5 2 3 10 9 14 4 3 7 11 16 -4 32
8 Ihefu 24 9 3 12 24 26 11 6 2 3 15 9 13 3 1 9 9 17 -2 30
9 Mtibwa Sugar 24 7 8 9 26 35 12 6 4 2 19 14 12 1 4 7 7 21 -9 29
10 Mbeya City 25 6 9 10 29 37 13 3 6 4 16 16 12 3 3 6 13 21 -8 27
11 KMC 25 6 8 11 22 27 13 6 3 4 15 13 12 0 5 7 7 14 -5 26
12 Coastal Union 24 6 7 11 20 28 11 4 4 3 6 7 13 2 3 8 14 21 -8 25
13 Dodoma Jiji 24 7 3 14 18 31 12 4 0 8 10 15 12 3 3 6 8 16 -13 24
14 Tanzania Prisons 24 5 7 12 18 32 12 3 3 6 11 14 12 2 4 6 7 18 -14 22
15 Ruvu Shooting 25 5 5 15 16 30 13 3 2 8 8 17 12 2 3 7 8 13 -14 20
16 Polisi Tanzania 24 4 7 13 18 33 13 2 5 6 11 16 11 2 2 7 7 17 -15 19