Super League duel: Close contest expected between Forest Rangers and Green Eagles

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Competition: Zambia Super League
Competition: Sun 19.December
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Levy Mwanawasa Stadium (49800 seats)

Forest Rangers will hope to use their home advantage to get one over today’s opposition. The home team are currently 4 points behind Green Eagles.

Insights:
  • Forest Rangers have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Super League
  • Green Eagles have the most clean sheets (9) in Super League

Forest Rangers and Green Eagles should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Forest Rangers form and stats

The story so far in the Super League for Forest Rangers at their home stadium (Levy Mwanawasa Stadium) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats.

Forest are returning here after visiting Konkola Blades in a Super League game and winning with a 1-0 scoreline.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 2-2 versus Green Buffaloes.

This is expected to be a close game, with Forest Rangers perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Forest as a small favourite), we find ten games. Forest Rangers has won four of these, drawn four and lost two.

The Forest Rangers fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 11 in 8 matches. 9 goals have been conceded.

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Green Eagles form and stats

4-3-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Green Eagles, who have the most clean sheets (9) in Super League, in their Super League matches away.

Impressive finishing secured the home win 2-0 against Prison Leopards in their previous game.

Before that, Eagles travelled to Kafue Celtic and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Green Eagles in our archives, and the results are: one win for Green Eagles, four draws and four defeats.

Green Eagles are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 8 games (in the league). It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (6 so far). It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

Forest-Green Eagles H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Forest Rangers four wins, Green Eagles six wins, zero draws. two of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Forest Rangers missing players

Green Eagles missing players

Forest Rangers Green Eagles
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
16 8 1 Played P 1 8 16
5 3 0 Won W 0 4 7
8 3 1 Drew D 1 3 6
3 2 0 Lost L 0 1 3
19 11 2 Scored S 0 10 17
17 9 2 Conceded C 0 6 10
94% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 88% 75%
81% 75% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 62% 56%
31% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 38% 31%
12% 25% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 6%
6% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
69% 62% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 50% 38%
19% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 38% 56%
19% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 25% 31%
 
5.1 5.8 5 Corners for (avg) C F 6 5.8 6.7
4.2 3.4 2 Corners against (avg) C A 7 7.2 7
1.4 1.8 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.2 1
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.8 14.4 11 Shots (avg) S ( 4 8.8 9.3
3.3 4 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 2.8 2.1
43% 50% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 43% 40%
 
9.4 9.8 7 Shots against (avg) S A 6 10.4 12.1
3.7 4.2 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 2.4 2.7
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Forest Rangers have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Forest Rangers have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Super League
  • Green Eagles have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Green Eagles have the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Super League
  • Green Eagles have the most clean sheets (9) in Super League
  • Green Eagles have the most matches under the total-line (9) in Super 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 Green Buffaloes 17 8 6 3 29 19 8 4 3 1 17 9 9 4 3 2 12 10 10 30
2 Green Eagles 16 7 6 3 17 10 8 3 3 2 7 4 8 4 3 1 10 6 7 27
3 Red Arrows 15 7 5 3 15 12 8 3 3 2 8 9 7 4 2 1 7 3 3 26
4 Nkana 16 7 4 5 18 14 8 4 2 2 12 8 8 3 2 3 6 6 4 25
5 Power Dynamos 17 7 4 6 22 19 9 5 2 2 15 9 8 2 2 4 7 10 3 25
6 ZESCO United 15 7 3 5 20 14 8 3 2 3 11 8 7 4 1 2 9 6 6 24
7 Kabwe Warriors 15 7 2 6 15 12 7 5 0 2 10 4 8 2 2 4 5 8 3 23
8 Forest Rangers 16 5 8 3 19 17 8 3 3 2 11 9 8 2 5 1 8 8 2 23
9 Nkwazi 16 6 4 6 12 9 8 2 3 3 4 4 8 4 1 3 8 5 3 22
10 Buildcon 16 5 7 4 16 15 8 2 3 3 6 6 8 3 4 1 10 9 1 22
11 Kansanshi Dynamos 16 5 5 6 11 13 8 4 3 1 7 4 8 1 2 5 4 9 -2 20
12 Prison Leopards 15 5 4 6 13 15 7 4 1 2 8 5 8 1 3 4 5 10 -2 19
13 Zanaco 14 4 6 4 11 12 7 3 3 1 5 3 7 1 3 3 6 9 -1 18
14 Kafue Celtic 16 4 6 6 11 15 8 3 2 3 6 5 8 1 4 3 5 10 -4 18
15 Indeni 16 4 6 6 11 22 8 1 4 3 4 9 8 3 2 3 7 13 -11 18
16 Lusaka Dynamos 16 2 8 6 8 13 8 1 4 3 4 8 8 1 4 3 4 5 -5 14
17 Konkola Blades 16 2 6 8 10 16 8 1 4 3 5 7 8 1 2 5 5 9 -6 12
18 Chambishi 16 2 6 8 8 19 8 1 3 4 5 10 8 1 3 4 3 9 -11 12