The two teams in Ashanti Region, King Faisal Football Club will host Kumasi Asante Kotoko for the fisrt time in the year, 2022 and for the third time in the 2021/2022 league season.
The Porcupines face their city rivals on match day 23 of the Ghana Premier League (GPL), the boys in red will have room to manoeuvre for a payback results as the green and white outfit team stunned them by 3-2 on match day 6 and eliminated them out from the MTN FA Cup within December last year.
The editors of atop.com has enumerated the last five head-to-head meetings between the two teams in the Region, King Faisal will play as a home team in Sunday’s afternoon encounter which they look forward to impress their supporters citing the poor performance of King Faisal in their last five league matches.
King Faisal have only won a game in their last five league matches, they won on match day 18 at Sogakope against West African Football Academy (WAFA) and lost to Legon Cities, Aduana Stars, Ashanti Gold Football Club and Medeama in their last match.
Dr. Ogum and his lads are undefeated in their last five league matches, two wins and three draws have helped them occupy a comfortable position at the apex of the Premier League, the team stands resolute at away venues since two of their drawn games were played at away.
In the last five meetings, Kumasi Asante Kotoko are equally at par with their city rivals King Faisal considering two wins for both teams and one drawn game in their last five meetings, Kotoko have produced an overwhelming soccer tally against King Faisal when they destroyed them by three goals thriller on 13th of November, 2013.
The last Ashanti derby was an afternoon that both teams provided a hat-trick hero and a brace hero, Zubairu Mohammed recorded three goals for King Faisal whiles Mfegue Omgba a Cameroonian import had a brace in the game.
