The Nigeria Professional Football League has been ace this 2015 season not necessarily because we are seeing fans return to the various centres across the country, or the number of away wins on show but the fact that there are so many talking points to keep fans on their toes during the hiatus.
After 19 match days, Sunshine Stars lead the pack with 36 points just ahead of a resurgent Enyimba of Aba on goals difference.
Such is the competition this season that just 5 points separate first from fifth while at the rung of the table, bar FC Taraba who are firmly rooted at the bottom, only five points separate 15th placed team from the 19th.
The indices surely tells us we are going to have an exciting second half of the season when hostilities resume on August 2.
Our in house NPFL aficionado Andrew Randa takes a look back at the first half of the season in numbers.
1- The position Sunshine Stars occupy at the end of the first half of the season
7- Number of coaches who have lost their jobs in the first round
9- Longest unbeaten run of matches unbeaten. Enyimba FC & Giwa FC hold that record
9- Number of matches Sharks have drawn from 19 games. They’ve won three and lost 7. Draw specialists
10-Number of weeks Sunshine Stars have been top of the table from 19 match days
11- Number of goals top scorers Bright Ejike (Heartland) and Tunde Adeniji (Sunshine Stars) have scored
11- Number of matches leaders Sunshine Stars have won in 19 match days.
15- Highest number of away points won by a team in the first round. Enyimba hold that record
17- Longest winless streak. That unsavoury honor goes to FC Taraba
19- Number of away wins in the first half of the season
20- Number, occupied by FC Taraba at the base of the NPFL log
23- Number of points separating leaders Sunshine Stars from bottom placed FC Taraba at the half way stage.
27-Number of points FC IfeanyiUbah, Kano Pillars and Rangers International of Enugu are on after 19 games. Only goal difference separate them.
28- Number of goals basement side FC Taraba have conceded in the first stanza
30- Highest number of goals scored by a team in the first half of the season. Leaders Sunshine Stars and Heartland FC share the honors.
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