Super League duel: Close contest expected between Lumwana Radiants and Nkana

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Competition: Zambia Super League
Competition: Sun 18.April
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Solwezi Stadium (3500 seats)

This match features two teams living in the basement of the Super League, Lumwana Radiants holding 17th place and Nkana lying 16th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.

Insights:
  • Lumwana Radiants have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Super League
  • Nkana have the most conceded goals (32) in Super League

Nkana could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Super League game only four sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Kitwe United. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Lumwana Radiants form and stats

Lumwana Radiants have collected 13 points from their Super League home games so far after 3-4-3.

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

Lumwana Radiants aren't scoring a lot here at Solwezi Stadium in the league, with only 9 goals from 10 games. Radiants's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Nkana form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Nkana, who have the most conceded goals (32) in Super League, so far with only 6 points returning home. The records show 2-0-7 (win-draw-lose). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Nkana have lost on their last two travels.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Nkana in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Nkana, one draw and four defeats.

After this away game Nkana return home for a CAF Confederations Cup game against Pyramids FC. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The visitors have scored 5 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Nkana have conceded 18 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was Nkana - Lumwana Radiants 0-0, played this season. Radiants-Nkana H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Lumwana Radiants one win, Nkana five wins, four draws. five of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Lumwana Radiants missing players

Nkana missing players

Lumwana Radiants Nkana
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 10 3 Played P 3 9 20
4 3 2 Won W 0 2 6
9 4 1 Drew D 0 0 3
9 3 0 Lost L 3 7 11
15 9 4 Scored S 1 5 21
26 10 2 Conceded C 9 18 32
73% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
50% 50% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 90%
36% 30% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 33% 50%
18% 20% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 22% 25%
9% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 11% 5%
41% 40% 33% BTTS BTTS 33% 22% 40%
36% 40% 67% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 25%
50% 40% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 56% 40%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.5 0.3 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.9 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.5 3.7 11 Shots (avg) S ( 13.3 11.2 10.2
1.6 0.3 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 2.9 3.2
33% 200% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 10% 19% 34%
Key stats in Super League this season:
  • Lumwana Radiants have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Super League
  • Nkana have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Nkana have the most conceded goals (32) in Super League
  • Nkana have the most conceded goals in the first half (16) in Super League
  • Nkana haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 ZESCO United 22 14 4 4 32 16 11 8 1 2 20 9 11 6 3 2 12 7 16 46
2 Zanaco 23 11 6 6 38 23 10 8 2 0 27 8 13 3 4 6 11 15 15 39
3 Forest Rangers 22 9 8 5 27 20 10 5 4 1 13 7 12 4 4 4 14 13 7 35
4 Power Dynamos 23 9 8 6 23 16 12 5 5 2 11 8 11 4 3 4 12 8 7 35
5 Kabwe Warriors 23 9 8 6 26 23 11 4 3 4 10 10 12 5 5 2 16 13 3 35
6 Lusaka Dynamos 23 8 10 5 25 20 12 6 5 1 18 10 11 2 5 4 7 10 5 34
7 Buildcon 23 10 4 9 29 27 11 7 2 2 17 10 12 3 2 7 12 17 2 34
8 Prison Leopards 23 9 6 8 26 20 12 7 3 2 16 9 11 2 3 6 10 11 6 33
9 Red Arrows 23 9 6 8 23 20 12 6 4 2 14 6 11 3 2 6 9 14 3 33
10 Nkwazi 23 7 9 7 15 18 12 4 4 4 6 9 11 3 5 3 9 9 -3 30
11 Green Eagles 23 6 11 6 22 24 12 4 7 1 13 10 11 2 4 5 9 14 -2 29
12 Young Green Eagles 24 6 10 8 17 27 12 6 4 2 13 9 12 0 6 6 4 18 -10 28
13 Indeni 23 5 12 6 23 24 12 4 5 3 11 10 11 1 7 3 12 14 -1 27
14 NAPSA Stars 20 5 9 6 20 24 11 5 4 2 12 10 9 0 5 4 8 14 -4 24
15 Green Buffaloes 23 4 11 8 23 24 11 3 5 3 15 9 12 1 6 5 8 15 -1 23
16 Nkana 20 6 3 11 21 32 11 4 3 4 16 14 9 2 0 7 5 18 -11 21
17 Lumwana Radiants 22 4 9 9 15 26 10 3 4 3 9 10 12 1 5 6 6 16 -11 21
18 Kitwe United 23 1 8 14 8 29 11 1 6 4 4 10 12 0 2 10 4 19 -21 11