Can Bright Stars beat Vipers in Kavumba Recreation Centre clash?

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Competition: Uganda Premier League
Competition: Tue 21.December
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Kavumba Recreation Centre (1000 seats)

Pre-match info: 16 points divide the squads so far this season, Vipers the superior team. Will Bright Stars shorten the gap?

Insights:
  • Bright Stars have the fewest scored goals (6) in Premier League
  • Vipers have the most scored goals (22) in Premier League

Bright's stadium, Kavumba Recreation Centre, has a grass surface. Vipers 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 Vipers when playing on grass; 13 wins, 11 draws and 7 losses from 31 matches. They have scored 41 goals in these games and conceded 26.

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.

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Bright Stars form and stats

The story so far in the Premier League for Bright Stars at their home stadium (Kavumba Recreation Centre) is 1 win, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

Stress levels are on the rise for Bright Stars's attacking players as they have now played 240 minutes without scoring in a league game. Senkatuka was their last goal scorer. The Bright goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 195 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.

Bright manager and his team return home after a 0-0 draw away versus BUL (placed 3rd) in the Premier League.

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Arua Hill that ended 0-0.

Bright have scored 2 goals here in 4 league matches, a depressing statistic. As for guarding their own goal, Bright have only let in 2 goals at home.

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Vipers form and stats

Playing away, Vipers, who have the most scored goals (22) in Premier League, have won 4 games, drawn 1 and suffered 0 defeats in the Premier League this season. Having won their last three away games Vipers has no reason to fear anyone.

The supporters enjoyed Vipers's previous game versus Soana (placed 16th), a Premier League 1-0 win played at home.

Before that one, a nice away victory 4-1 at Jinja SSS.

Vipers create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 13 goals in 5 travels. 5 goals have been conceded by Vipers in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last nine meetings: zero - four - five (Bright Stars wins - draws - Vipers wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Bright Stars missing players

Vipers missing players

Bright Stars Vipers
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 4 1 Played P 2 5 10
1 1 0 Won W 2 4 7
4 2 1 Drew D 0 1 2
5 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
6 2 1 Scored S 6 13 22
12 2 1 Conceded C 1 5 9
70% 75% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
40% 25% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 80%
30% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 80% 60%
20% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 60% 50%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 20% 20%
40% 25% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 80% 50%
40% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 20% 40%
50% 50% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 10%
 
3.8 4.7 4 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.5 3.8
3.8 5.3 5 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0.8 1
0.8 0.7 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0.8 1.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
8.4 8.3 9 Shots (avg) S ( 0 4.2 5.6
3 2.3 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2 1.8
21% 29% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 138% 107%
 
7.6 7.3 16 Shots against (avg) S A 0 3.8 3.6
3.1 1.7 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 1.8 1.5
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Vipers's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Bright Stars have the fewest conceded goals (2) at home in Premier League
  • Bright Stars have the fewest scored goals (6) in Premier League
  • Bright Stars have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Vipers have not yet lost a game away.
  • Vipers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Vipers have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Vipers have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Vipers have scored more than double the goals of Bright Stars.
  • Vipers have the most points (13) away in Premier League
  • Vipers have the most scored goals (13) away in Premier League
  • Vipers have the most scored goals (22) in Premier League
  • Vipers have the the best goal difference (+8) away in Premier League
  • Vipers have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Vipers 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 KCCA 11 8 3 0 21 8 5 5 0 0 12 4 6 3 3 0 9 4 13 27
2 Vipers 10 7 2 1 22 9 5 3 1 1 9 4 5 4 1 0 13 5 13 23
3 BUL 11 6 3 2 19 10 6 3 2 1 9 3 5 3 1 1 10 7 9 21
4 Wakiso Giants 11 6 2 3 14 13 5 4 0 1 9 5 6 2 2 2 5 8 1 20
5 Express FC 11 5 4 2 10 7 6 3 2 1 6 4 5 2 2 1 4 3 3 19
6 Arua Hill 11 5 3 3 14 10 6 3 2 1 10 7 5 2 1 2 4 3 4 18
7 UPDF 11 5 2 4 16 15 5 4 1 0 8 4 6 1 1 4 8 11 1 17
8 URA 9 3 5 1 18 10 5 2 3 0 11 4 4 1 2 1 7 6 8 14
9 Mbarara City 11 4 2 5 10 11 6 4 1 1 10 6 5 0 1 4 0 5 -1 14
10 Gadafi 11 3 4 4 12 15 5 3 0 2 5 6 6 0 4 2 7 9 -3 13
11 Onduparaka 11 2 5 4 9 12 6 1 4 1 5 6 5 1 1 3 4 6 -3 11
12 SC Villa 10 2 4 4 11 14 6 2 2 2 8 9 4 0 2 2 3 5 -3 10
13 Bright Stars 10 1 4 5 6 12 4 1 2 1 2 2 6 0 2 4 4 10 -6 7
14 Jinja SSS 10 2 1 7 8 18 4 0 1 3 1 6 6 2 0 4 7 12 -10 7
15 Police 11 1 3 7 8 15 6 1 2 3 6 8 5 0 1 4 2 7 -7 6
16 Soana 11 1 1 9 8 27 5 1 1 3 6 11 6 0 0 6 2 16 -19 4