Premier League preview: Can Vipers edge out victory against URA?

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Competition: Uganda Premier League
Competition: Sat 27.November
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: St. Mary's Stadium (3000 seats)

Vipers greet URA for another intriguing Premier League fixture here at St. Mary's Stadium.

Insights:
  • Vipers have the the best goal difference (+9) in Premier League
  • URA have the most scored goals (13) in Premier League

It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Premier League.

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Vipers form and stats

Perfect Premier League season at home so far for Vipers 2 wins from 2 appearances. Two home wins in a row for Vipers bring valid hopes of a third.

A good away victory last time out for Vipers, who won 2-1 against Mbarara City (placed 12th).

Ahead of that match, Vipers won a home game hosting Onduparaka (1-0).

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Vipers matches with similar probabilities have ended with two wins, zero draws and zero defeats (from two games).

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Vipers as they are travelling to their away game against Gadafi in the Premier League. That match is four days after this one.

Vipers has scored 6 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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URA form and stats

URA have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the Premier League were 7 victories, 4 draws and 2 defeats from 13 fixtures.

URA are travelling after their nice 6-1 home win in the Premier League against Soana (placed 14th). As mentioned above, URA was the only team on the pitch versus Soana in their previous game, winning 6-1. This could be a tougher task.

A draw for URA before that, at their own venue hosting BUL (2-2).

Looking at the earlier recent performances of URA when being an outsider away as they are today, we find two matches with the visitors losing one time, drawing zero and winning one game.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Police in just three days.

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, URA has managed 2 goals and let in 3 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Vipers three wins, three draws and URA four victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Vipers missing players

URA missing players

Vipers URA
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
5 2 1 Played P 0 1 4
4 2 1 Won W 0 0 2
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
0 0 0 Lost L 0 1 1
12 6 1 Scored S 0 2 13
3 0 0 Conceded C 0 3 7
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
80% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
60% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 100%
40% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 100% 100%
20% 50% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 100% 50%
40% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 100%
60% 100% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
6 4 4 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3 3.8
1 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3 3.5
1.7 2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10 13 13 Shots (avg) S ( 0 6 11.8
4 4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2 4.5
42% 25% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 100% 72%
 
5.7 2 2 Shots against (avg) S A 0 10 9.2
2.7 1 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 6 3.5
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • URA have the fewest matches under the total-line (0) in Premier League
  • URA have the most matches over the total-line (4) in Premier League
  • URA have the most scored goals (13) in Premier League
  • URA have the most scored goals in the first half (7) in Premier League
  • URA have the most scored goals in the second half (6) in Premier League
  • Vipers have the fewest conceded goals (0) at home in Premier League
  • Vipers have the the best goal difference (+9) in Premier League
Vipers Last season URA
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
26 13   Played P   13 26
17 9   Won W   7 17
5 2   Drew D   4 6
4 2   Lost L   2 3
56 27   Scored S   19 41
21 8   Conceded C   11 18
96% 92%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   85% 85%
73% 62%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   69% 69%
58% 46%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   38% 42%
35% 31%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   23% 23%
15% 23%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   15% 8%
46% 31%   BTTS BTTS   46% 46%
46% 62%   Clean Sheets C S   46% 46%
12% 15%   Failed to Score F T   23% 23%
 
5.2 5.8   Corners for (avg) C F   4.6 5.2
3 2.6   Corners against (avg) C A   3.4 3.3
1.3 1.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   0.8 1
0 0   Red cards R C   0 0
 
12.1 14.7   Shots (avg) S (   8 9.8
4.5 4.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   2.8 4.3
47% 44%   Goal Efficiency G E   51% 36%
 
6.7 7.2   Shots against (avg) S A   9.5 9.7
2.9 3   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   2.2 2.7

  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 6 5 1 0 11 3 3 3 0 0 6 2 3 2 1 0 5 1 8 16
2 Vipers 5 4 1 0 12 3 2 2 0 0 6 0 3 2 1 0 6 3 9 13
3 BUL 6 4 1 1 9 5 3 2 0 1 3 2 3 2 1 0 6 3 4 13
4 Wakiso Giants 6 4 0 2 8 9 3 2 0 1 4 3 3 2 0 1 4 6 -1 12
5 UPDF 6 2 2 2 7 8 3 2 1 0 4 2 3 0 1 2 3 6 -1 8
6 Gadafi 6 2 2 2 6 7 3 2 0 1 2 2 3 0 2 1 4 5 -1 8
7 Express FC 6 2 2 2 5 6 3 0 2 1 2 4 3 2 0 1 3 2 -1 8
8 Onduparaka 6 2 2 2 3 4 3 1 1 1 2 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 -1 8
9 URA 4 2 1 1 13 7 3 2 1 0 11 4 1 0 0 1 2 3 6 7
10 Jinja SSS 5 2 1 2 5 3 2 0 1 1 0 1 3 2 0 1 5 2 2 7
11 Arua Hill 5 2 1 2 6 5 2 1 1 0 3 2 3 1 0 2 3 3 1 7
12 Mbarara City 6 2 0 4 6 7 3 2 0 1 6 4 3 0 0 3 0 3 -1 6
13 SC Villa 4 1 1 2 3 5 3 1 0 2 3 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 -2 4
14 Soana 6 1 1 4 4 15 3 1 1 1 3 4 3 0 0 3 1 11 -11 4
15 Bright Stars 5 0 2 3 2 6 2 0 1 1 1 2 3 0 1 2 1 4 -4 2
16 Police 6 0 0 6 2 9 3 0 0 3 1 5 3 0 0 3 1 4 -7 0