Mbeya City vs Simba: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Tanzania Ligi kuu Bara
Date: Fri 03.May
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sokoine Stadium (10000 seats)

Mbeya City will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 32 points behind Simba.

The visiting Simba played their last game only three days ago, a Ligi kuu Bara match. That game was a home fixture for Simba, against JKT Tanzania. But now it's all about beating Mbeya City!

This stadium uses grass, unlike Simba's home stadium. The visitors last 23 games on grass have ended in 14 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses. Simba have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 800 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Mbeya City form and stats

Mbeya City have collected 28 points from their home games so far after 8-4-4.

The Mbeya City fans got no joy from their last match, a Ligi kuu Bara game also here at Sokoine Stadium: A 0-1 defeat against Azam. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting JKT Tanzania (0-1).

Mbeya City are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home, having created 19 goals in 16 matches. Mbeya City are not conceding a lot of goals here at Sokoine Stadium, averaging less than one per game. The total is 11 from 16 matches.

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Simba form and stats

The away team, who have the fewest conceded goals (8) away in Ligi kuu Bara, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 12 wins, 1 draw and only 2 losses. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Simba hope to make it five in this match. It’s been three wins in a row for Simba on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.

Simba won their last game, 1-0 versus JKT Tanzania played at home. Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Biashara United.

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 two days, this time against Tanzania Prisons.

Simba have scored more than twice per away game on average, an impressive attacking display. They have 31 goals from 15 away matches. It's not easy to score on Simba as they have only conceded 8 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: Simba - Mbeya City 2-0. Head-to-head totals (for the last seven meetings): Mbeya City won 0 games, 1 match ended with a draw and Simba has 6 wins.

Mbeya City missing players

Simba missing players

Mbeya City Simba
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
32 16 5 Played 4 15 28
11 8 1 Won 3 12 23
7 4 1 Drew 0 1 3
14 4 3 Lost 1 2 2
31 19 2 Scored 7 31 58
34 11 5 Conceded 4 8 11
91% 88% 80% Over 0.5 100% 93% 89%
59% 50% 40% Over 1.5 100% 80% 75%
31% 19% 20% Over 2.5 75% 53% 54%
12% 12% 0% Over 3.5 0% 27% 18%
6% 12% 0% Over 4.5 0% 7% 7%
38% 31% 20% BTTS 75% 40% 32%
34% 50% 40% Clean Sheets 25% 53% 64%
38% 31% 60% Failed To Score 0% 13% 14%
 
3.9 4.1 3 Corners For (avg) 6 5.5 5.6
4 3.4 4 Corners Against (avg) 4 4.4 3.7
1.2 1.2 1 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 1.1 0.9
2 1 0 Red Cards 0 2 2

Mbeya City
All Ligi kuu Bara
All Home Away
15-02-19 LKB Mbeya City 1 - 1 Stand United
20-02-19 LKB Mbeya City 0 - 1 Tanzania Prisons
27-02-19 LKB Mbeya City 1 - 0 Singida United
03-03-19 LKB Mbeya City 0 - 0 Ndanda
10-03-19 LKB Mwadui 3 - 1 Mbeya City
16-03-19 LKB Mbeya City 2 - 0 Mbao
02-04-19 LKB Mbeya City 1 - 0 KMC
06-04-19 LKB JKT Tanzania 1 - 0 Mbeya City
14-04-19 LKB Mbeya City 0 - 1 Azam
03-05-19 LKB Mbeya City 13:00 Simba
Simba
All Ligi kuu Bara CAF Confederations Cup Club Friendlies CAF Champions League
All Home Away
19-04-19 LKB Kagera Sugar 2 - 1 Simba
23-04-19 LKB Alliance 0 - 2 Simba
25-04-19 LKB KMC 1 - 2 Simba
27-04-19 LKB Biashara United 0 - 2 Simba
30-04-19 LKB Simba 1 - 0 JKT Tanzania
03-05-19 LKB Mbeya City 13:00 Simba
05-05-19 LKB Tanzania Prisons 13:00 Simba
16-05-19 LKB Simba 13:00 Mtibwa Sugar
19-05-19 LKB Simba 13:00 Ndanda
25-05-19 LKB Simba 13:00 Biashara United

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Young Africans 33 24 5 4 52 23 15 13 1 1 32 12 18 11 4 3 20 11 29 77
2 Simba 28 23 3 2 58 11 13 11 2 0 27 3 15 12 1 2 31 8 47 72
3 Azam 33 19 9 5 49 20 17 13 2 2 36 10 16 6 7 3 13 10 29 66
4 Mtibwa Sugar 32 14 6 12 33 24 18 13 3 2 26 8 14 1 3 10 7 16 9 48
5 Lipuli 33 12 12 9 30 28 18 9 7 2 20 13 15 3 5 7 10 15 2 48
6 Ndanda 32 11 10 11 22 30 17 10 5 2 18 8 15 1 5 9 4 22 -8 43
7 KMC 33 9 15 9 33 25 18 9 6 3 26 11 15 0 9 6 7 14 8 42
8 Tanzania Prisons 32 10 12 10 26 25 15 7 6 2 18 10 17 3 6 8 8 15 1 42
9 Coastal Union 33 9 14 10 29 33 16 5 10 1 15 10 17 4 4 9 14 23 -4 41
10 Mbeya City 32 11 7 14 31 34 16 8 4 4 19 11 16 3 3 10 12 23 -3 40
11 Singida United 33 10 10 13 24 32 16 8 5 3 16 7 17 2 5 10 8 25 -8 40
12 Kagera Sugar 33 9 12 12 28 35 18 8 5 5 17 13 15 1 7 7 11 22 -7 39
13 JKT Tanzania 33 9 12 12 20 28 17 8 6 3 15 8 16 1 6 9 5 20 -8 39
14 Stand United 33 11 6 16 30 41 17 8 4 5 16 14 16 3 2 11 14 27 -11 39
15 Mwadui 33 10 7 16 37 43 17 8 5 4 27 15 16 2 2 12 10 28 -6 37
16 Alliance 33 9 10 14 24 36 16 8 4 4 17 10 17 1 6 10 7 26 -12 37
17 Mbao 33 9 10 14 19 33 16 7 4 5 13 12 17 2 6 9 6 21 -14 37
18 Ruvu Shooting 33 8 12 13 28 39 15 7 5 3 17 12 18 1 7 10 11 27 -11 36
19 Biashara United 32 8 10 14 22 31 15 6 7 2 11 8 17 2 3 12 11 23 -9 34
20 African Lyon 33 4 10 19 19 43 15 4 5 6 14 19 18 0 5 13 5 24 -24 22

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