2024
| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samoa | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 3/15 | 5-19 |
| Cook Islands | 15 | L2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 3/15 | 3-24 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samoa | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | WW | 8 | -7 |
| Cook Islands | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | LW | 6 | -4 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2024-03-22
Samoa went into the game 1st in the table on 6 points; Cook Islands sat 2nd on 3 — a 3-point gap. On recent form Samoa sat only 8th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 1st overall. Against a league average of 1.63 goals per team per game, Samoa ran at 2.5 scored and 0.5 conceded, Cook Islands at 0.5 and 0.5.
Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 1-0.
