Match Report
2 points and 4 places separated them: Nairobi City Stars 17th with 35, Ulinzi Stars 13th with 37. On the form table Nairobi City Stars stood 2nd over the last five rounds, despite being 17th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Nairobi City Stars 0.76 scored and 1.21 conceded per game, Ulinzi Stars 0.82 and 0.97, with the league averaging 0.97.
Nairobi City Stars had not won in 10 games.
GioScore's database holds 7 meetings between the two: 2 for Nairobi City Stars, 2 for Ulinzi Stars and 3 drawn, at 1.71 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 14% of those meetings. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 29% of the meetings.
Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos staged the fixture, a ground that holds 3,000. Nairobi City Stars led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-0.