Mandela National Stadium: Express FC vs Bright Stars Premier League pre-match guide

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Competition: Uganda Premier League
Competition: Fri 07.January
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Mandela National Stadium (45202 seats)

Express FC are hunting the top league places while Bright Stars are more nervous about avoiding relegation. Expected home win or surprise away points?

Insights:
  • Express FC have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Premier League
  • Bright Stars have the fewest scored goals (7) in Premier League

It's no vacation for neither Express FC nor Bright Stars as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

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Express FC form and stats

Express FC are steadily winning Premier League games and points here at Mandela National Stadium. 4 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat is the summary from 7 games. Express FC haven’t lost a league-game in twelve attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus UPDF, 76 days ago.

Express are confident in defense, having played 621 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.

Happy days for Express in their previous game, a Premier League match away at Soana (placed 16th) that ended with a 2-0 victory.

Before that, Express had a home game versus Jinja SSS which ended with a victory 4-0.

Express FC are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 10 goals in 7 games. Express are not conceding a lot of goals here at Mandela National Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 7 matches.

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Bright Stars form and stats

There's been little loot from Bright Stars's travels as they have only collected 2 points from 7 away games in the Premier League. Bright Stars only have 0 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws.

Bright won their last game, 1-0 versus SC Villa played at home.

Preceding that game, the 0-5 loss visiting Police's place.

A new game in only four days for Bright, the Premier League home match versus URA. Busy days.

The visitors have scored 4 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. For Bright, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last seven meetings: two - four - one (Express wins - draws - Bright Stars wins). As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.

Express FC missing players

Bright Stars missing players

Express FC Bright Stars
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 7 3 Played P 1 7 13
7 4 2 Won W 0 0 2
5 2 1 Drew D 1 2 4
2 1 0 Lost L 0 5 7
16 10 6 Scored S 0 4 7
7 4 0 Conceded C 0 15 18
79% 86% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 71% 77%
50% 57% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 57% 38%
21% 29% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 57% 31%
14% 29% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 43% 23%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 29% 15%
21% 14% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 43% 31%
64% 71% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 29% 38%
36% 29% 33% Failed to Score F T 100% 57% 54%
 
2.8 2 1 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.7 3.5
3.3 3.3 1.7 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3.7 4
1.5 1.5 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0.7 0.9
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
5.8 7.2 5.3 Shots (avg) S ( 0 8.3 8.5
2.3 3.7 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.2 2.6
57% 45% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 16% 21%
 
4 3 2.7 Shots against (avg) S A 0 8.2 8.1
1.2 1.5 0.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4.5 3.3
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Bright Stars have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Bright Stars have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Bright Stars have the fewest scored goals (7) in Premier League
  • Bright Stars have yet to win a game away.
  • Express FC have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Express FC have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Express FC have scored more than double the goals of Bright Stars.
  • Express FC have the fewest conceded goals (7) in Premier League
  • Express FC have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Premier League
  • Express FC have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1) in Premier League
  • Express FC have the most clean sheets (5) at home in Premier League
  • Express FC have the most clean sheets (9) in Premier League
  • Express FC have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Express FC is in the best form (4-2-0) in Premier League

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Vipers 13 9 2 2 30 12 6 4 1 1 16 6 7 5 1 1 14 6 18 29
2 KCCA 13 8 5 0 23 10 6 5 1 0 12 4 7 3 4 0 11 6 13 29
3 Express FC 14 7 5 2 16 7 7 4 2 1 10 4 7 3 3 1 6 3 9 26
4 BUL 14 7 4 3 27 15 7 4 2 1 13 3 7 3 2 2 14 12 12 25
5 Arua Hill 14 7 3 4 17 15 7 4 2 1 11 7 7 3 1 3 6 8 2 24
6 Wakiso Giants 14 7 3 4 20 19 7 5 0 2 14 10 7 2 3 2 6 9 1 24
7 URA 12 4 7 1 22 12 7 3 4 0 14 5 5 1 3 1 8 7 10 19
8 Gadafi 14 4 6 4 16 18 7 3 2 2 8 9 7 1 4 2 8 9 -2 18
9 UPDF 14 5 3 6 19 24 7 4 2 1 9 6 7 1 1 5 10 18 -5 18
10 Police 14 4 3 7 17 16 7 2 2 3 11 8 7 2 1 4 6 8 1 15
11 SC Villa 13 4 4 5 16 15 7 3 2 2 12 9 6 1 2 3 4 6 1 15
12 Mbarara City 13 4 2 7 10 14 7 4 1 2 10 7 6 0 1 5 0 7 -4 14
13 Onduparaka 13 2 7 4 13 16 7 1 5 1 7 8 6 1 2 3 6 8 -3 11
14 Bright Stars 13 2 4 7 7 18 6 2 2 2 3 3 7 0 2 5 4 15 -11 10
15 Jinja SSS 12 2 1 9 8 23 5 0 1 4 1 7 7 2 0 5 7 16 -15 7
16 Soana 14 1 1 12 9 36 7 1 1 5 7 16 7 0 0 7 2 20 -27 4