Cape Town Stadium: Cape Town Spurs vs Royal AM Gladafrica Championship preview

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Competition: South Africa Gladafrica Championship
Competition: Tue 04.May
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cape Town Stadium (64100 seats)

The visiting Royal AM side should be favourites in this visit to Cape Town Spurs, as the away team holds a 16 point advantage from their 26 league games this season.

Insights:
  • Cape Town Spurs have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Royal AM have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Gladafrica Championship

It's no vacation for neither Cape Town Spurs nor Royal AM as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

Royal AM have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1600 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Cape Town Spurs form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Gladafrica Championship this season. Cape Town Spurs, who have the most conceded goals (21) at home in Gladafrica Championship, have only managed 2 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses from their games here at Cape Town Stadium. The Spurs manager I. Taylor might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.

Cape Town Spurs are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 250 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by J. Sibande).

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Spurs, as the Gladafrica Championship home game vs Pretoria Callies is only four days away.

The Spurs fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 12 in 12 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Cape Town Spurs defense is not exactly impregnable. 21 goals conceded from 12 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Royal AM form and stats

5-6-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Royal AM in their Gladafrica Championship matches away. The away team travel with confidence. Not since the Polokwane City game have they lost an away game, meaning Royal has taken points from eleven away matches in a row.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting TS Sporting in just four days.

Royal have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 13 league away games 14 goals have been scored. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (12 so far).

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Royal AM - Spurs 0-0. Cape Town Spurs-Royal AM H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: Cape Town Spurs two wins, Royal AM zero wins, three draws. three of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Cape Town SpursK. Mosiatlhaga
K. Mosiatlhaga
3 goals
SpursA. Cupido
A. Cupido
3 goals
Royal AMS. George
S. George
3 goals

Cape Town Spurs missing players

Royal AM missing players

Cape Town Spurs Royal AM
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
26 12 4 Played P 4 13 26
6 2 0 Won W 3 5 11
9 4 1 Drew D 1 6 10
11 6 3 Lost L 0 2 5
18 12 3 Scored S 7 14 28
32 21 11 Conceded C 3 12 21
85% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 77% 77%
62% 92% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 62% 50%
31% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 31% 35%
8% 17% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 23% 23%
8% 17% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 8% 4%
46% 83% 75% BTTS BTTS 50% 46% 42%
31% 8% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 38% 38%
38% 8% 25% Failed to Score F T 25% 38% 42%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
7 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 6.7
1 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 3.7
100% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
Key stats in Gladafrica Championship this season:
  • Cape Town Spurs have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cape Town Spurs have the fewest points from losing position (1) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Cape Town Spurs have the fewest scored goals in the second half (8) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Cape Town Spurs have the most conceded goals (21) at home in Gladafrica Championship
  • Cape Town Spurs have the most conceded goals in the second half (22) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Cape Town Spurs have the most dropped points from leading position (17) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Cape Town Spurs have the the worst goal difference (-9) at home in Gladafrica Championship
  • Cape Town Spurs haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Royal AM have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Gladafrica Championship

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Royal AM 26 11 10 5 28 21 13 6 4 3 14 9 13 5 6 2 14 12 7 43
2 Richards Bay 25 11 9 5 32 21 12 4 6 2 16 10 13 7 3 3 16 11 11 42
3 Sekhukhune United 26 9 11 6 30 19 13 7 3 3 18 8 13 2 8 3 12 11 11 38
4 Cape Umoya United 26 9 11 6 30 22 13 6 5 2 15 7 13 3 6 4 15 15 8 38
5 TS Sporting 25 9 10 6 32 23 13 5 5 3 19 10 12 4 5 3 13 13 9 37
6 Free State Stars 25 10 7 8 29 26 12 4 4 4 16 14 13 6 3 4 13 12 3 37
7 JDR Stars 26 9 10 7 27 26 13 5 4 4 14 12 13 4 6 3 13 14 1 37
8 Jomo Cosmos 26 9 9 8 23 23 14 1 7 6 9 15 12 8 2 2 14 8 0 36
9 Polokwane City 26 8 10 8 24 24 13 6 4 3 13 8 13 2 6 5 11 16 0 34
10 Uthongathi 26 8 10 8 27 28 12 3 6 3 12 14 14 5 4 5 15 14 -1 34
11 Pretoria Callies 25 9 7 9 18 20 12 5 1 6 11 14 13 4 6 3 7 6 -2 34
12 University of Pretoria 25 8 8 9 22 22 13 4 5 4 9 7 12 4 3 5 13 15 0 32
13 Cape Town All Stars 25 7 7 11 23 29 13 4 2 7 13 15 12 3 5 4 10 14 -6 28
14 Steenberg United 26 7 6 13 25 35 14 6 4 4 15 13 12 1 2 9 10 22 -10 27
15 Cape Town Spurs 26 6 9 11 18 32 12 2 4 6 12 21 14 4 5 5 6 11 -14 27
16 Bizana Pondo Chiefs 26 4 8 14 17 34 13 3 7 3 11 11 13 1 1 11 6 23 -17 20