About Match
15 points for Simba (2nd), 1 for Pamba Jiji (15th): a 14-point gap. Per game in the league, Simba score 1.8 and conceding 0.4, Pamba Jiji 0.6 and 2, against a competition average of 1.26 goals per team per game. Three points here take Simba to 18 and up to 1st, assuming other results stand.
Simba enter with seven wins in a row, having scored in 7 consecutive games. Four consecutive defeats weigh on Pamba Jiji. Over the last five, Simba have taken 15 of 15 points to Pamba Jiji's 1.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 4 Simba wins, 0 for Pamba Jiji, 1 draw, at 3 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 40% of the meetings went to the host. Goals tend to flow: 60% of the meetings produced three or more, and both sides scored in 80%.
The match takes place at Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar-es-Salaam (capacity 60,000).