Struggling Mufulira Wanderers will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying ZESCO United in the upcoming league round. It’s 18th vs 5th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only four days ago in the Super League.
Mufulira Wanderers form and stats
Mufulira Wanderers's struggle is real here with only 5 points collected from 9 Super League games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-2-6. The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in ten attempts.
Mufulira Wanderers haven't scored a league goal since they found the net 504 minutes ago. B. Chewe scored that one.
Mufulira Wanderers drew their last game, also a home match. Nkana (placed 1st) was the opponent, 0-0 the score. Heartbreak before that as Mufulira Wanderers lost 0-4 at NAPSA Stars's place.
The lack of attacking qualities in Mufulira Wanderers means that they have only scored 4 goals in 9 league home games, less than half a goal per match. 12 goals have been conceded.
ZESCO United form and stats
5-0-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for ZESCO United, who have the most scored goals (28) in Super League, in their Super League matches away. ZESCO United seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
ZESCO United delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Nakambala Leopards (placed 16th) in their previous match; a Super League game. It was a CAF Champions League defeat before that one as the away game against TP Mazembe wasn't a success with a 1-3 loss.
The schedule is very tough for ZESCO United now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A Super League game at Power Dynamos is waiting in only three days.
ZESCO United have scored 13 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away games in the league. 10 goals have been conceded by ZESCO United in these games.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; ZESCO United - Mufulira Wanderers 2-0. As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's two Mufulira Wanderers victories, one draw and six ZESCO United wins. six of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Mufulira Wanderers missing players
ZESCO United missing players
| Mufulira Wanderers | ZESCO United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 5 | Played | P | 4 | 9 | 18 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | 6 | 4 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 13 | 28 |
| 31 | 12 | 8 | Conceded | C | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| 89% | 89% | 80% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 89% |
| 68% | 67% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 78% | 67% |
| 37% | 22% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 75% | 67% | 56% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 17% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 32% | 33% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 44% | 39% |
| 16% | 22% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 22% | 39% |
| 63% | 56% | 60% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 33% | 33% |
| 3.9 | 4.5 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7 | 4.9 | 5.7 |
| 4.4 | 4 | 3.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| 2.4 | 1.7 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 107 | 44 | 20 | Total Shots | T S | 19 | 71 | 151 |
| 32 | 12 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 8 | 28 | 52 |
| 22% | 17% | 14% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 29% | 37% |
- Mufulira Wanderers has the fewest points (5) at home
- Mufulira Wanderers has the fewest scored goals (4) at home
- Mufulira Wanderers has the fewest scored goals (9)
- Mufulira Wanderers has the most conceded goals in the first half (14)
- Mufulira Wanderers has the the worst goal difference (-8) at home
- Mufulira Wanderers have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Mufulira Wanderers is in the worst form (0-2-4)
- ZESCO United has the most scored goals (28)
- ZESCO United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- ZESCO United have scored more than double the goals of Mufulira Wanderers.
- ZESCO United 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 | Nkana | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 38 |
| 2 | Green Eagles | 19 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 25 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 37 |
| 3 | NAPSA Stars | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 36 |
| 4 | Forest Rangers | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 36 |
| 5 | ZESCO United | 18 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 28 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 35 |
| 6 | Red Arrows | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 32 |
| 7 | Kabwe Warriors | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 31 |
| 8 | Lusaka Dynamos | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 24 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 3 | 29 |
| 9 | Green Buffaloes | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 29 |
| 10 | Power Dynamos | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 28 |
| 11 | Buildcon | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 22 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 19 | -5 | 24 |
| 12 | Lumwana Radiants | 19 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 23 |
| 13 | Zanaco | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 23 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 22 |
| 14 | Kansanshi Dynamos | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 12 | -3 | 20 |
| 15 | Nkwazi | 19 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 19 |
| 16 | Nakambala Leopards | 20 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 27 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 | -14 | 16 |
| 17 | Kabwe YSA | 20 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 39 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 21 | -26 | 12 |
| 18 | Mufulira Wanderers | 19 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 31 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 19 | -22 | 9 |