| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 15 | W2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10/15 | 8-3 |
| Niger | 15 | L2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4/15 | 2-6 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2012-08-14 – 2015-09-08) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-09-08 | Nigeria | 2-0 | Niger |
| 2012-08-14 | Niger | 0-0 | Nigeria |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 10 | 3 | 4 | 2 | LDW | 9 | +1 |
| Niger | 16 | 3 | 1 | -8 | LDL | 13 | +3 |
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 2016-01-18
Niger (16th, 1 pts) visited Nigeria (10th, 4 pts) with 3 points between them. Per game in the league, Nigeria were scoring 1.67 and conceding 1, Niger 1 and 3.67, against a competition average of 1.29 goals per team per game.
Over the last five, Nigeria had taken 10 of 15 points to Niger's 4.
The match was played at Stade Régional de Nyamirambo in Kigali (capacity 10,000). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 5 more goals closed it at 4-1.
