Black Leopards will pray that their home support is enough to get some points from this back-breaking encounter, vs high-flying Platinum City Rovers.
- Black Leopards have yet to win a game at home.
- Platinum City Rovers have the most conceded goals in the first half (6) in Gladafrica Championship
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Black Leopards form and stats
Black Leopards have played 5 Gladafrica Championship games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-2-3 (wins-draws-losses). It's trouble wherever Leopards are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.
Black Leopards are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 481 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by T. Thutlwa).
The fans are hoping that Leopards will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Gladafrica Championship game against Cape Town All Stars (placed 7th). The defeat against Cape Town All Stars was especially painful as the deciding goal against was scored two minutes into stoppage time (by R. Baartman).
Preceding that match was the home game against Free State Stars that was lost 0-1.Leopards have scored 1 goal here in 5 league matches, a depressing statistic. From these home matches, Leopards have conceded only 4 goals.
Platinum City Rovers form and stats
As the visiting team in Gladafrica Championship matches, Platinum City Rovers have produced an overall stat of 2-2-1 so far.
Impressive finishing from T. Ntlaba, W. Radebe, O. Shaku, N. Ngcobo and M. Wagaba secured the home win 5-1 against Hungry Lions in their previous game. As you can tell from the results above, Platinum was very dominant against Hungry Lions, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 5-1 (!) with T. Ntlaba, W. Radebe, O. Shaku, N. Ngcobo and M. Wagaba providing the goals.
Before that, Platinum travelled to Cape Town Spurs and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.Many goals are not expected from the visiting Platinum City Rovers as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. Platinum City Rovers are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 4 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  T. Thutlwa 3 goals |  T. Nkoana 3 goals | W. Radebe 2 goals |
Black Leopards missing players
Platinum City Rovers missing players
| Black Leopards | Platinum City Rovers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 13 |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 90% | 80% | 67% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 60% | 70% |
| 50% | 20% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 20% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 40% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 30% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 30% |
| 30% | 20% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 20% | 40% |
| 20% | 20% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 80% | 50% |
| 60% | 80% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 40% | 40% |
| 1.5 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 8.5 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 0.5 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 50% |
- Black Leopards have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Black Leopards have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Black Leopards have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Black Leopards have yet to win a game at home.
- Platinum City Rovers have created more than twice as many corners as Black Leopards.
- Platinum City Rovers have scored more than double the goals of Black Leopards.
- Platinum City Rovers have the most conceded goals in the first half (6) 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 | JDR Stars | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 21 |
| 2 | University of Pretoria | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 19 |
| 3 | Polokwane City | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 18 |
| 4 | Platinum City Rovers | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 18 |
| 5 | Richards Bay | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 18 |
| 6 | Uthongathi | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| 7 | Cape Town All Stars | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 16 |
| 8 | Free State Stars | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 16 |
| 9 | Venda FC | 11 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 15 |
| 10 | Hungry Lions | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 14 |
| 11 | Pretoria Callies | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 13 |
| 12 | Real Kings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | TS Sporting | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 12 |
| 13 | TTM | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -6 | 10 |
| 14 | Cape Town Spurs | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | -8 | 8 |
| 15 | Black Leopards | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -4 | 7 |
| 16 | Jomo Cosmos | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -6 | 5 |