Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) reached the mid-season with fixtures held over the weekend of last weekend. In 379, 185 games goals were scored; an average of two goals and a fraction per match.
According to stats released by the NPFL Competitions Department, there were 139 wins over the period and five outstanding matches.
Remo Stars’ Sikiru Alimi is the most prolific scorer at the halfway mark of the season with 11 goals but the stats did not indicate how many matches he played out of the 19 his club was involved in.
Ten away victories were recorded and 46 draws which saw 271 goals scored by home sides and 108 scored by clubs on the road.
Out of 47 penalties awarded, 37 were converted. Of the 379 goals, own goals accounted for nine just as there were three hat-tricks in this first half of the season.
Referees sought to maintain discipline and clean games by issuing 724 cautions and expelling 23 players from matches for various breaches of the rule.
Lobi Stars ended the first stanza of the season at the top of the log with 36 points, scoring 22 goals and conceding 15. However, it was Remo Stars that ended up more prolific at scoring, netting 27 goals while Bendel Insurance paraded the strongest defence that let in just 11 goals. Bayelsa United topped the list for most goals conceded with 32 shipped in.
