Match Report
Sunshine Stars (19th, 41 pts) visited Bayelsa United (11th, 52 pts) with 11 points between them. Scoring rates set the scale: Bayelsa United 1.03 scored and 0.95 conceded per game, Sunshine Stars 0.89 and 1.34, with the league averaging 1.03.
Defeat had followed defeat for Bayelsa United — three in succession.
4 meetings are on record — 0 won by Bayelsa United, 1 by Sunshine Stars, 3 drawn, at 1.75 goals per meeting. Only 25% of these meetings ended in a home win. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 25% of the meetings.
Samson Siasia Stadium in Yenagoa, capacity 20,000, hosted the game. It was 1-1 at the break, and the second half added 3 goals for the 4-1 full-time score.