These two squads are satisfied with a quality season so far and occasions like today could be deciding. Read more about Mbeya City - Simba!
- Mbeya City have the most points from losing position (9) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba have the most scored goals (24) in Ligi kuu Bara
Mbeya's stadium, Sokoine Stadium, has a grass surface. Simba have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Simba when playing on grass; 11 wins, 4 draws and 10 losses from 25 matches. They have scored {24 goals} in these games and conceded 21.
It's quite the trip for Simba when visiting Mbeya City as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Mbeya City form and stats
The story so far in the Ligi kuu Bara for Mbeya City at their home stadium (Sokoine Stadium) is 2 wins, 4 draws and 1 defeat. The last three games played by Mbeya City, regardless of arena, have all ended draws.
The spoils were shared in Mbeya City's previous game, also at home. Visiting Geita Gold (placed 6th) travelled back with a draw after a 0-0 scoreline.
The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 2-2 versus Kagera Sugar.Some goal stats: A review of the 12 most recent league games shows that 9 of them had goals from both teams.
Mbeya are traveling soon after this match as the Ligi kuu Bara match at Young Africans awaits in three days.
Mbeya City are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 7 games. On the other hand, Mbeya City have conceded 8 goals.
Simba form and stats
As the visiting team in Ligi kuu Bara matches, Simba have produced an overall stat of 2-2-1 so far.
Simba have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper. It's been 348 minutes since they last conceded in Ligi kuu Bara.
Two travels in a row for Simba, whose coach Mgunda could celebrate last time after the win against Ruvu Shooting. As mentioned above, Simba was the only team on the pitch versus Ruvu Shooting in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Namungo.Highlight this: 9 of the last 12 league games featuring this club have ended with only one (or no) side scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in the betting world).
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Simba manager Mgunda as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Polisi Tanzania.
Simba find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league. It's not easy to score on Simba as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the former ten meetings between these two sides are: one win for Mbeya, zero draws and nine wins for Simba. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.
Mbeya City missing players
Simba missing players
| Mbeya City | Simba | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 7 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | 10 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 7 | 24 |
| 14 | 8 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 92% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 71% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 60% | 67% |
| 58% | 57% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 42% |
| 42% | 43% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 75% | 71% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | 25% |
| 17% | 14% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 67% |
| 17% | 29% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 20% | 8% |
| 4.3 | 4.7 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 4.6 | 5.5 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 3.6 | 2.9 |
| 0.9 | 0.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.6 | 7.3 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.5 | 12.2 | 10.8 |
| 3.9 | 2.7 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0.5 | 4 | 4.5 |
| 37% | 50% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 35% | 44% |
| 6.8 | 5 | 7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.5 | 6 | 5.7 |
| 2.2 | 1.5 | 1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
- Mbeya City have the most points from losing position (9) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Simba have the fewest conceded goals (5) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba have the most clean sheets (8) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba have the most scored goals (24) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba have the most scored goals in the second half (13) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Simba have the the best goal difference (+19) in Ligi kuu Bara
- 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 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 29 |
| 2 | Simba | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 27 |
| 3 | Young Africans | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 26 |
| 4 | Mtibwa Sugar | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -3 | 21 |
| 5 | Mbeya City | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 18 |
| 6 | Geita Gold | 13 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 18 |
| 7 | Singida Big Stars | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 18 |
| 8 | Namungo | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | -1 | 15 |
| 9 | Kagera Sugar | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | -3 | 15 |
| 10 | KMC | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -1 | 14 |
| 11 | Tanzania Prisons | 13 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 14 |
| 12 | Coastal Union | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | -1 | 12 |
| 13 | Ruvu Shooting | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | -8 | 11 |
| 14 | Dodoma Jiji | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | -8 | 9 |
| 15 | Polisi Tanzania | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -9 | 9 |
| 16 | Ihefu | 12 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 8 |
