Struggling Mbeya City will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Young Africans in the upcoming league round. It’s 17th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
- Mbeya City has the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the fewest conceded goals (7) in Ligi kuu Bara
Young Africans play their home games on artifical turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Young Africans when playing on grass are 18 wins, 6 draws and 4 defeats from 28 matches. They have scored 36 goals and conceded 17 times in these games.
Young Africans 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.
Mbeya City form and stats
Mbeya City's struggle is real here at Sokoine Stadium with only 5 points collected from 8 Ligi kuu Bara games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-5-3. Mbeya are slowly digging their own grave here at Sokoine Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in eight attempts. The last victory here came in the Azam match.
Mbeya City has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 2 goals from 8 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Mbeya are not conceding a lot of goals here at Sokoine Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 8 matches.
Young Africans form and stats
The strength of Young Africans, who have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Ligi kuu Bara, on their travels this season is incredible with 23 points collected from 9 Ligi kuu Bara away games. Young Africans has 7-2-0 on the road, with 15 goals scored and 2 conceded. Things are running smoothly for Africans who hasn't tasted defeat in their last 18 matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Tanzania Prisons.
After this away game Africans return home for a Ligi kuu Bara game against Kagera Sugar. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Africans are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 9 away games so far. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Africans are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only 2 goals away. It's worth mentioning that 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Young Africans - Mbeya 1-0 earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Mbeya City victory, three draws and six Young Africans wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.Mbeya City missing players
Young Africans missing players
| Mbeya City | Young Africans | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 8 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 8 | 15 | 29 |
| 20 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 72% | 62% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 89% | 94% |
| 44% | 25% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 44% | 56% |
| 28% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 11% | 11% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 11% | 6% |
| 28% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 22% | 39% |
| 33% | 38% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 78% | 61% |
| 67% | 75% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 11% | 6% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0.4 | 0.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.3 | 11.8 | 10.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 6.8 | 6.5 |
| 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 2.3 | 2.1 |
| 21% | 20% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 30% | 48% | 64% |
- Mbeya City has the fewest points (5) at home in Ligi kuu Bara
- Mbeya City has the fewest scored goals (2) at home in Ligi kuu Bara
- Mbeya City has the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Mbeya City have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Mbeya City have yet to win a game at home.
- Young Africans has the fewest conceded goals (2) away in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the fewest conceded goals (7) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the most clean sheets (6) away in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the most points (23) away in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the most points from losing position (6) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans have not yet lost a game.
- Young Africans have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Young Africans have scored more than double the goals of Mbeya City.
| 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 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 22 | 44 |
| 2 | Simba | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 33 | 39 |
| 3 | Azam | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 26 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 33 |
| 4 | Biashara United | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13 | -2 | 29 |
| 5 | Ruvu Shooting | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 28 |
| 6 | KMC | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 25 |
| 7 | Polisi Tanzania | 18 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 23 |
| 8 | Kagera Sugar | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -1 | 22 |
| 9 | Tanzania Prisons | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -1 | 22 |
| 10 | Dodoma Jiji | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 | -3 | 22 |
| 11 | Mtibwa Sugar | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | -4 | 22 |
| 12 | Namungo | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -2 | 21 |
| 13 | JKT Tanzania | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 9 | -2 | 20 |
| 14 | Coastal Union | 18 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | -11 | 20 |
| 15 | Gwambina | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | -3 | 19 |
| 16 | Mwadui | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 34 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 14 | -21 | 15 |
| 17 | Mbeya City | 18 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 15 | -13 | 14 |
| 18 | Ihefu | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 25 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 15 | -18 | 13 |