2022
| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 15 | L1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7/15 | 5-5 |
| Swaziland | 15 | W2 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11/15 | 8-3 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2009-07-05 – 2011-05-29) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-05-29 | Eswatini | 1-1 | Malawi |
| 2009-07-05 | Malawi | 3-1 | Eswatini |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | LDW | 5 | -2 |
| Eswatini | 1 | 3 | 7 | 5 | WDW | 2 | -1 |
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 2022-07-08
Malawi went into the game 3rd in the table on 4 points; Swaziland sat 1st on 7 — a 3-point gap. Scoring rates set the scale: Malawi 1.33 scored and 1 conceded per game, Swaziland 2 and 0.33, with the league averaging 1.17.
Swaziland had not lost in 5 games, having scored in 6 consecutive games.
The match was played at King Goodwill Zwelithini Stadium in Durban (capacity 62,760). On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 1-1.
