Match preview First Division: Richards Bay - Maccabi at Richards Bay Sports Stadium

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Competition: South Africa First Division
Date: Sun 21.April
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Richards Bay Sports Stadium (8000 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Richards Bay are in the 7th position while the guests worry at 13th.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Richards Bay form and stats

The story so far for Richards Bay at their home stadium (Richards Bay Sports Stadium) is 7 wins, 4 draws and 2 defeats.

The fans are hoping that Richards Bay will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-5 away loss in the First Division game against Ubuntu Cape Town. Preceding that match was a defeat to Real Kings (0-2).

Richards Bay has scored 14 goals at home this season, in 13 matches. Richards Bay have only conceded 10 in these games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Maccabi form and stats

Playing away, Maccabi have won 3 games, drawn 6 and suffered 4 defeats so far this season.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a First Division home defeat versus Tshakhuma with 0-3 on the scoreboard. Ahead of that game was the 1-1 draw at home against Royal Eagles.

Maccabi find the net in their away games, although not all the time. 16 goals from 13 away fixtures. Maccabi have conceded 19 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Maccabi - Richards Bay 0-1 entered in the official records. As for the last one game between these two teams, there's 1 Richards Bay victory, 0 draws and 0 Maccabi wins.

Richards Bay missing players

Maccabi missing players

Richards Bay Maccabi
Total Home Statistic Away Total
27 13 Played 13 27
24 14 Scored 16 28
29 10 Conceded 19 35
93% 92% Over 0.5 92% 93%
59% 54% Over 1.5 77% 63%
30% 31% Over 2.5 46% 37%
11% 8% Over 3.5 23% 19%
4% 0% Over 4.5 8% 7%
41% 46% Both teams to score 69% 44%
30% 38% Clean Sheet 23% 26%
37% 23% Failed To Score 15% 37%
 
1.5 0.2 Corners For (avg) 2.1 3.3
2.1 0.7 Corners Against (avg) 3 3.5
0.9 0.1 Yellow Cards (avg) 1.1 1.3
2 0 Red Cards (total) 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Maccabi is involved in more matches over 2.5 away, than home.
  • Richards Bay is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Stellenbosch 27 14 7 6 40 20 13 7 4 2 21 9 14 7 3 4 19 11 20 49
2 Ajax Cape Town 27 14 6 7 37 24 14 9 4 1 26 10 13 5 2 6 11 14 13 48
3 Royal Eagles 27 13 8 6 36 20 13 6 5 2 20 10 14 7 3 4 16 10 16 47
4 Mbombela United 27 12 8 7 33 22 13 8 4 1 20 6 14 4 4 6 13 16 11 44
5 Tshakhuma 27 12 8 7 34 26 13 8 1 4 16 12 14 4 7 3 18 14 8 44
6 Uthongathi 27 10 10 7 28 22 13 7 3 3 15 7 14 3 7 4 13 15 6 40
7 Richards Bay 27 10 9 8 24 29 13 7 4 2 14 10 14 3 5 6 10 19 -5 39
8 TS Galaxy 27 9 10 8 30 24 14 5 7 2 19 13 13 4 3 6 11 11 6 37
9 TS Sporting 27 9 8 10 24 28 14 6 3 5 16 14 13 3 5 5 8 14 -4 35
10 University of Pretoria 27 9 7 11 25 38 13 4 4 5 14 14 14 5 3 6 11 24 -13 34
11 Cape Umoya United 27 7 10 10 19 25 14 5 5 4 12 13 13 2 5 6 7 12 -6 31
12 Jomo Cosmos 27 7 9 11 21 27 14 6 5 3 13 9 13 1 4 8 8 18 -6 30
13 Maccabi 27 7 8 12 28 35 14 4 2 8 12 16 13 3 6 4 16 19 -7 29
14 Ubuntu Cape Town 27 7 7 13 27 35 13 5 4 4 19 14 14 2 3 9 8 21 -8 28
15 Real Kings 27 6 9 12 24 33 14 4 6 4 11 11 13 2 3 8 13 22 -9 27
16 Witbank Spurs 27 5 6 16 23 45 14 2 4 8 13 24 13 3 2 8 10 21 -22 21

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