Here's another engrossing game in the Gladafrica Championship. Richards Bay is in the 13th place from participating in five fixtures. They host Venda FC who are placed 11th from five matches.
- Richards Bay have the the worst goal difference (-6) in Gladafrica Championship
- Venda FC have yet to win a game away.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Richards Bay and Venda FC.
Richards Bay form and stats
0-1-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Gladafrica Championship numbers at home for Richards Bay so far this season. Richards has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager S. Dladla and the players.
Richards are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 360 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by S. Hlongwa).
Richards Bay lost their last game at Polokwane City (placed 5th) after a 0-4 scoreline. Richards were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Black Leopards (0-2).Early season league goal statistics from Richards Bay's 2 home games: 0 goals, 2 conceded.
Venda FC form and stats
Still no away game victory in the Gladafrica Championship for Venda FC with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.
Venda aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 289 league minutes without a goal. T. Mofokeng was the last player to find the net. The Venda goalkeeper is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 183 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Venda FC delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Jomo Cosmos (placed 15th) in their previous match; a Gladafrica Championship game.
A draw for Venda before that, at their own venue hosting Polokwane City (0-0).It's early days yet, but Venda FC has scored 0 and conceded 1 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Hlongwa 1 goals |  T. Mofokeng 1 goals |
Richards Bay missing players
Venda FC missing players
| Richards Bay | Venda FC | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 80% | 50% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 40% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 80% |
| 80% | 100% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 100% | 80% |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
- Richards Bay have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Richards Bay have created more than twice as many corners as Venda FC.
- Richards Bay have failed to score a single goal at home.
- Richards Bay have the the worst goal difference (-6) in Gladafrica Championship
- Richards Bay have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Richards Bay have yet to win a game at home.
- Venda FC have failed to score a single goal away.
- Venda FC have yet to win a game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Platinum City Rovers | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 13 |
| 2 | Free State Stars | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | JDR Stars | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | Hungry Lions | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 | Polokwane City | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | University of Pretoria | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 7 | Uthongathi | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| 8 | TS Sporting | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 9 | Cape Town All Stars | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -1 | 7 |
| 10 | Black Leopards | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 11 | Venda FC | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 12 | TTM | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | -1 | 5 |
| 12 | Real Kings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Richards Bay | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -6 | 4 |
| 14 | Cape Town Spurs | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -3 | 3 |
| 15 | Jomo Cosmos | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 2 |
| 16 | Pretoria Callies | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 1 |