Football guide: Young Africans vs Coastal Union - predictions and stats

This football stadium has artifical turf, which is not Coastal Union's regular surface at their own football field. When playing on artifical turf Coastal Union have performed like this: Played six matches taking 1 win, 2 draws and 3 defeats with the goal stats 5-10 (scored/conceded).

Africans have less rest than Coastal Union in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Ligi kuu Bara game only three days ago. Thankfully the previous game, versus Polisi Tanzania, was also a home game here at Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium. The away team is better rested.

Young Africans form and stats

Young Africans have been very solid at home in the Ligi kuu Bara so far, with 20 points collected from 8 matches (6-2-0). This has contributed greatly to their 1st position in the table. Young Africans has won so many consecutive home games (five in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium. We remember; it was Simba.

Young Africans are confident in defense, having played 299 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

The Africans supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Polisi Tanzania and win 3-0.

In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Namungo.

It should be taken into account that a peek at the 10 most recent league fixtures reveals that 8 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the sides scored a goal).

Goals decide football matches and Young Africans are scoring many of them at home; 17 on target from 8 league matches. From these home matches, Young Africans have conceded only 4 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

Coastal Union form and stats

Coastal Union have only collected 7 points from their away games in the Ligi kuu Bara, after 2-1-6 (9 played).

Two away games in a row for Coastal Union, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus KMC.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Singida Big Stars at their stadium, the result 2-1.

Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Coastal have scored 11 goals in 9 league games away. Coastal Union struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 14 goals conceded from these games. Coastal Union has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

These sides faced each other earlier this campaign: Coastal Union - Africans 0-2. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: six - two - two (Young Africans wins - draws - Coastal Union wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven had two or less.

Young Africans missing players

Coastal Union missing players