Athlone Stadium: Cape Town Spurs vs Richards Bay Gladafrica Championship pre-match guide

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Competition: South Africa Gladafrica Championship
Competition: Sun 07.November
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Athlone Stadium (64100 seats)

Cape Town Spurs will cross fingers that their home comfort is enough to get all three points from this grim meeting, vs potent Richards Bay.

Insights:
  • Cape Town Spurs have the most conceded goals (15) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Richards Bay is in the best form (4-2-0)

This should be an engaging match with lots of fun and excitement as both participants are well revitalized since they last played a game. Let's get started!

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1700 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Cape Town Spurs form and stats

The story so far in the Gladafrica Championship for Cape Town Spurs at their home stadium (Athlone Stadium) is 1 win, 4 draws and 1 defeat. Spurs have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Cape Town Spurs, who played 1-1 against Cape Town All Stars. That match was also played at this venue (Athlone Stadium).

Prior to that, an away loss at University of Pretoria.

Spurs aren't scoring a lot here at Athlone Stadium in the league, with only 4 goals from 6 games. Spurs have showed great defending skills in these home games, allowing the opposition to score only 3 goals.

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Richards Bay form and stats

Playing away, Richards Bay, who have the most clean sheets (7) in Gladafrica Championship, have won 2 games, drawn 1 and suffered 2 defeats in the Gladafrica Championship this season.

Richards have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Malcolm Jacobs. It's been 504 minutes since they last conceded in Gladafrica Championship.

Richards won their last game, 2-0 versus TS Sporting played at home.

A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Pretoria Callies.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Richards Bay as they have only managed to score 3 times from 5 away games in the league. Richards have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last seven matches): Spurs three wins, two draws and Richards Bay two victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Richards BayS. Hlongwa
S. Hlongwa
4 goals
Cape Town SpursD. Panzo Bunga
D. Panzo Bunga
2 goals
Richards BayV. Mngomezulu
V. Mngomezulu
2 goals

Cape Town Spurs missing players

Richards Bay missing players

Cape Town Spurs Richards Bay
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
11 6 1 Played P 1 5 11
1 1 0 Won W 1 2 5
6 4 0 Drew D 0 1 3
4 1 1 Lost L 0 2 3
7 4 0 Scored S 1 3 11
15 3 1 Conceded C 0 5 8
64% 67% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 82%
55% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 40% 55%
18% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 18%
18% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 18%
18% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
36% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 9%
45% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 60% 64%
55% 50% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 60% 45%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 9 9
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6 6
0 0 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0 0
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7 7
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 4
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
 
0 0 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 8 8
0 0 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 4
Key stats in Gladafrica Championship this season:
  • Cape Town Spurs have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Cape Town Spurs have the most conceded goals (15) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Cape Town Spurs have the most conceded goals in the second half (10) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Cape Town Spurs have the most dropped points from leading position (7) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Cape Town Spurs have the the worst goal difference (-8) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Richards Bay have created more than twice as many corners as Cape Town Spurs.
  • Richards Bay have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Richards Bay have the most clean sheets (3) away in Gladafrica Championship
  • Richards Bay have the most clean sheets (7) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Richards Bay have the most scored goals in the first half (7) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Richards Bay is in the best form (4-2-0)

  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 11 7 0 4 14 9 6 4 0 2 8 4 5 3 0 2 6 5 5 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 Uthongathi 11 5 4 2 13 8 6 4 1 1 9 4 5 1 3 1 4 4 5 19
4 Polokwane City 11 5 3 3 15 9 5 3 1 1 7 1 6 2 2 2 8 8 6 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 Platinum City Rovers 11 5 3 3 14 12 5 3 1 1 10 6 6 2 2 2 4 6 2 18
7 Cape Town All Stars 11 4 5 2 12 11 5 2 3 0 5 3 6 2 2 2 7 8 1 17
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 Black Leopards 11 2 4 5 7 10 6 1 2 3 3 5 5 1 2 2 4 5 -3 10
14 TTM 11 2 4 5 6 12 5 1 3 1 4 3 6 1 1 4 2 9 -6 10
15 Cape Town Spurs 11 1 6 4 7 15 6 1 4 1 4 3 5 0 2 3 3 12 -8 9
16 Jomo Cosmos 11 0 5 6 3 9 6 0 2 4 2 6 5 0 3 2 1 3 -6 5