Match preview Ligi kuu Bara: Mtibwa Sugar - Mbeya City at Jamhuri Stadium

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Competition: Tanzania Ligi kuu Bara
Competition: Tue 18.May
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Jamhuri Stadium (5000 seats)

Mtibwa Sugar are leaning on their home advantage to support them before this meeting with Mbeya City. Who will win at Jamhuri Stadium?

Insights:
  • Mtibwa Sugar have the fewest scored goals (14) in Ligi kuu Bara
  • Mbeya City have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

Mtibwa have less rest than Mbeya City in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Ligi kuu Bara game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Tanzania Prisons, was also a home game here at Jamhuri Stadium. The away team is better rested.

Mtibwa are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Mbeya City are struggling to avoid relegation.

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Mtibwa Sugar form and stats

6 victories, 5 draws and 5 defeats. That’s what Mtibwa Sugar, who have the fewest scored goals (14) in Ligi kuu Bara, have to build on here at Jamhuri Stadium in the Ligi kuu Bara.

Mtibwa Sugar's last game was hosting Tanzania Prisons (placed 9th) and winning 1-0.

Heartbreak before that as Mtibwa lost 0-1 at Namungo's place.

Mtibwa aren't scoring a lot here at Jamhuri Stadium in the league, with only 10 goals from 16 games. From these home matches, Mtibwa have conceded only 10 goals.

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Mbeya City form and stats

The visitors are W4-D4-L7 on the road this term. That's in the Ligi kuu Bara. The visitors have performed well in their home games as well, building a total win streak of four games home and away. Mbeya hope to make it five in this match.

Mbeya City go into this game after a win, the home game against Ruvu Shooting that ended 2-0.

That result followed a home victory 6-1 versus JKT Tanzania.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Mbeya as they have only managed to score 9 times from 15 away games in the league. As opposed to that, Mbeya have seen the ball go into their own net 19 times on the road. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Mbeya City - Mtibwa 0-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Mtibwa three wins, five draws and Mbeya City two victories. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), nine games had two or less.

Mtibwa Sugar missing players

Mbeya City missing players

Mtibwa Sugar Mbeya City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 16 5 Played P 5 15 29
8 6 3 Won W 1 4 7
7 5 1 Drew D 2 4 12
14 5 1 Lost L 2 7 10
14 10 3 Scored S 4 9 22
27 10 1 Conceded C 5 19 27
86% 88% 80% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 87% 79%
38% 31% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 60% 53% 48%
10% 6% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 40% 24%
3% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 7% 7%
3% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 3%
17% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 60% 33% 34%
41% 50% 80% Clean Sheets C S 20% 33% 38%
55% 38% 40% Failed to Score F T 40% 47% 48%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1 0.9 0.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.8 1.5 1.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
7.7 8.8 11.4 Shots (avg) S ( 6.8 7.4 9.4
1.4 1.9 1.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 2.6 2.5
35% 33% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 23% 31%
Key stats in Ligi kuu Bara this season:
  • Mbeya City have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Mbeya City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Mtibwa Sugar have the fewest scored goals (14) in Ligi kuu Bara
  • Mtibwa Sugar have the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) 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 Simba 25 19 4 2 58 10 13 10 2 1 35 5 12 9 2 1 23 5 48 61
2 Young Africans 28 16 10 2 41 17 15 9 5 1 23 11 13 7 5 1 18 6 24 58
3 Azam 29 16 9 4 42 20 14 9 4 1 27 10 15 7 5 3 15 10 22 57
4 Biashara United 28 12 8 8 24 23 14 8 3 3 17 7 14 4 5 5 7 16 1 44
5 KMC 29 11 8 10 32 21 13 9 2 2 22 6 16 2 6 8 10 15 11 41
6 Polisi Tanzania 29 8 14 7 26 24 14 4 6 4 12 10 15 4 8 3 14 14 2 38
7 Dodoma Jiji 28 10 8 10 26 27 14 6 5 3 17 11 14 4 3 7 9 16 -1 38
8 Ruvu Shooting 28 10 7 11 28 26 12 7 3 2 19 7 16 3 4 9 9 19 2 37
9 Tanzania Prisons 28 9 10 9 19 19 14 7 3 4 11 7 14 2 7 5 8 12 0 37
10 Namungo 26 9 9 8 19 20 13 5 5 3 10 8 13 4 4 5 9 12 -1 36
11 Mbeya City 29 7 12 10 22 27 14 3 8 3 13 8 15 4 4 7 9 19 -5 33
12 JKT Tanzania 29 9 6 14 28 38 14 6 2 6 13 14 15 3 4 8 15 24 -10 33
13 Coastal Union 28 8 9 11 19 38 14 6 6 2 13 14 14 2 3 9 6 24 -19 33
14 Mtibwa Sugar 29 8 7 14 14 27 16 6 5 5 10 10 13 2 2 9 4 17 -13 31
15 Ihefu 29 8 7 14 21 36 16 7 3 6 16 16 13 1 4 8 5 20 -15 31
16 Gwambina 28 7 9 12 25 30 15 3 6 6 11 11 13 4 3 6 14 19 -5 30
17 Kagera Sugar 29 7 9 13 28 34 14 5 3 6 15 14 15 2 6 7 13 20 -6 30
18 Mwadui 29 5 4 20 21 56 15 3 4 8 13 27 14 2 0 12 8 29 -35 19