Tanzania Prisons will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 19 points behind Young Africans.
- Tanzania Prisons has the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the most clean sheets (10) in Ligi kuu Bara
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Young Africans have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 12-3-2 (win-draw-loss) from 17 matches.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Tanzania Prisons form and stats
Overall Ligi kuu Bara stats at home this season for Tanzania Prisons are 4-1-3 (wins-draw-losses).
The fans are hoping that Tanzania will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-2 away loss in the Ligi kuu Bara game against Biashara United (placed 5th). 1-1 away at Gwambina before that.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Tanzania Prisons here in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 8 games). Tanzania Prisons have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals.
Young Africans form and stats
The away performances of Young Africans, who have the most clean sheets (10) in Ligi kuu Bara, have been very solid so far with 6 wins, 2 draws and 0 defeats in the Ligi kuu Bara. The question is whether this happy travelling can continue. Things are running smoothly for Young Africans who hasn't tasted defeat in their last 17 matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Tanzania Prisons. It’s been three wins in a row for Africans on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Two travels in a row for Africans, whose manager M. Zahera could celebrate last time after the Ligi kuu Bara win against Ihefu. A home win before that, celebrating 3-1 vs Dodoma Jiji.
Africans are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 8 games (in the league). It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Young Africans are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 1 away goal have been conceded so far. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
Tanzania Prisons and Young Africans have met before this season: Young Africans - Tanzania 1-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Tanzania Prisons one win, four draws and Young Africans five victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Tanzania Prisons missing players
Young Africans missing players
| Tanzania Prisons | Young Africans | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 8 | 17 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | 13 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 14 | 28 |
| 11 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 82% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 88% | 94% |
| 35% | 12% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 25% | 38% | 53% |
| 6% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 38% | 35% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 12% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 6% |
| 24% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 12% | 35% |
| 47% | 62% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 75% | 88% | 65% |
| 47% | 50% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 12% | 6% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 | 1.5 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 7.9 | 6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 7 | 6.6 |
| 1.9 | 2.8 | 2.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| 30% | 23% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 45% | 63% |
- Tanzania Prisons has the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the fewest conceded goals (1) away in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the most clean sheets (10) in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the most clean sheets (6) away in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans has the most points (20) away in Ligi kuu Bara
- Young Africans have not yet lost a game.
- Young Africans have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Young Africans have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Young Africans have scored more than double the goals of Tanzania Prisons.
| 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 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 17 | 41 |
| 2 | Simba | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 33 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 28 | 32 |
| 3 | Azam | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 29 |
| 4 | Ruvu Shooting | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 25 |
| 5 | Biashara United | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | -5 | 24 |
| 6 | Polisi Tanzania | 17 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 23 |
| 7 | Tanzania Prisons | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 22 |
| 8 | Kagera Sugar | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 22 |
| 9 | Dodoma Jiji | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -1 | 22 |
| 10 | Mtibwa Sugar | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 22 |
| 11 | KMC | 16 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 21 |
| 12 | Gwambina | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | -2 | 19 |
| 13 | Coastal Union | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 | -11 | 19 |
| 14 | Namungo | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 17 |
| 15 | JKT Tanzania | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 9 | -3 | 17 |
| 16 | Mbeya City | 17 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 15 | -13 | 13 |
| 17 | Ihefu | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 11 | -14 | 13 |
| 18 | Mwadui | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 29 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 14 | -17 | 13 |