Zanaco - Forest Rangers: Small difference between teams in Super League clash

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Competition: Zambia Super League
Date: Sun 20.October
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Sunset Stadium (20000 seats)

Zanaco battle against Forest Rangers for glory and sporting success.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Zanaco form and stats

Perfect Super League season at home so far for Zanaco, who have the most clean sheets (3) at home in Super League, 2 wins from 2 appearances. It’s been three wins in a row for Zanaco here at Sunset Stadium, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.

The Zanaco supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Forest Rangers in Super League and win 1-0. A 0-0 draw away before that, with Buildcon the opponent.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Zanaco have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found one match with the results: Won 0 Drawn 0 Lost 1.

Early season league goal statistics from Zanaco's 2 home games: 4 goals, 0 conceded.

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Forest Rangers form and stats

0-0-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Forest Rangers in their Super League matches away. Forest Rangers seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Forest Rangers play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Zanaco (placed 10th). Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Nakambala Leopards.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Forest Rangers playing away and similar expectations, we found three relevant matches. Results were 1 Forest Rangers win, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

0 goals so far away for Forest Rangers, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 1. All from 1 league match away.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Zanaco won 8 games, 1 match ended with a draw and Forest Rangers has 1 win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 3 / 7

Zanaco missing players

Forest Rangers missing players

Zanaco Forest Rangers
Total Home Home vs top Statistics Stat Away vs mid Away Total
6 3 1 Played P 1 2 7
3 3 1 Won W 0 0 3
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
2 0 0 Lost L 1 2 2
7 5 2 Scored S 0 0 8
4 0 0 Conceded C 1 2 6
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 57%
17% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 29%
17% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 14%
17% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
17% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 43%
67% 100% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 29%
33% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 100% 29%
 
4.2 5 0 Corners For (avg) C F 3 3 4
6 3 0 Corners Against (avg) C A 6 4 3.6
2.5 2.5 0 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1.8
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 0
Key stats This season:
  • Forest Rangers have failed to score a single goal away.
  • Forest Rangers have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Forest Rangers have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Forest Rangers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Zanaco have won all their home matches so far.

Zanaco
All CAF Confederations Cup Super League CAF Champions League
All Home Away Home vs top
31-08-19 SL ZESCO United 1 - 0 Zanaco
08-09-19 SL Zanaco 2 - 0 Green Eagles
15-09-19 CCC Bolton City 1 - 2 Zanaco
21-09-19 SL Nkwazi 3 - 2 Zanaco
25-09-19 SL Zanaco 2 - 0 Kabwe YSA
28-09-19 CCC Zanaco 3 - 0 Bolton City
05-10-19 SL Buildcon 0 - 0 Zanaco
20-10-19 SL Zanaco 15:00 Forest Rangers
27-10-19 CCC Cano Sport 17:00 Zanaco
03-11-19 CCC Zanaco 14:00 Cano Sport
Forest Rangers
All Super League
All Home Away Away vs mid
18-05-19 SL Power Dynamos 2 - 2 Forest Rangers
22-05-19 SL Nkana 1 - 2 Forest Rangers
26-05-19 SL Forest Rangers 1 - 2 Man Utd Zambia Academy
31-08-19 SL Nkwazi 1 - 0 Forest Rangers
14-09-19 SL Forest Rangers 1 - 1 Kabwe YSA
21-09-19 SL Forest Rangers 2 - 2 Buildcon
29-09-19 SL Forest Rangers 1 - 0 Nkana
05-10-19 SL Forest Rangers 2 - 0 Kabwe Warriors
12-10-19 SL Forest Rangers 2 - 1 Nakambala Leopards
20-10-19 SL Zanaco 15:00 Forest Rangers

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Red Arrows 6 5 1 0 8 1 3 3 0 0 5 1 3 2 1 0 3 0 7 16
2 ZESCO United 5 5 0 0 12 4 3 3 0 0 6 3 2 2 0 0 6 1 8 15
3 Forest Rangers 6 3 2 1 8 5 5 3 2 0 8 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 3 11
4 Kansanshi Dynamos 6 3 2 1 6 3 3 2 1 0 3 1 3 1 1 1 3 2 3 11
5 NAPSA Stars 5 3 1 1 6 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 2 0 1 5 3 3 10
6 Green Eagles 5 3 1 1 8 6 3 2 1 0 7 4 2 1 0 1 1 2 2 10
7 Nkwazi 6 2 3 1 5 4 3 2 1 0 4 2 3 0 2 1 1 2 1 9
8 Nkana 6 2 2 2 8 7 3 1 1 1 5 4 3 1 1 1 3 3 1 8
9 Buildcon 6 2 2 2 5 6 2 0 1 1 0 1 4 2 1 1 5 5 -1 8
10 Zanaco 5 2 1 2 6 4 2 2 0 0 4 0 3 0 1 2 2 4 2 7
11 Lusaka Dynamos 6 2 1 3 6 6 3 2 0 1 4 1 3 0 1 2 2 5 0 7
12 Nakambala Leopards 7 2 1 4 8 10 3 1 1 1 3 4 4 1 0 3 5 6 -2 7
13 Kabwe Warriors 6 1 3 2 6 8 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 0 2 1 3 5 -2 6
14 Green Buffaloes 6 2 0 4 4 9 3 2 0 1 4 4 3 0 0 3 0 5 -5 6
15 Power Dynamos 5 1 1 3 4 6 2 1 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 3 2 6 -2 4
16 Mufulira Wanderers 6 1 0 5 3 12 3 0 0 3 0 6 3 1 0 2 3 6 -9 3
17 Kabwe YSA 5 0 2 3 4 9 3 0 1 2 3 6 2 0 1 1 1 3 -5 2
18 Lumwana Radiants 5 0 1 4 1 5 2 0 0 2 0 2 3 0 1 2 1 3 -4 1

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