Evenly matched teams: Cape Town Spurs vs Uthongathi match preview

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Competition: South Africa Gladafrica Championship
Competition: Wed 25.January
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Athlone Stadium (64100 seats)

The home team, Cape Town Spurs, should be front runners in this game, but Uthongathi have displayed both capability and guts. Read more about the fixture!

Insights:
  • Cape Town Spurs have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Uthongathi have the most points from losing position (9) in Gladafrica Championship

Uthongathi 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.

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.

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Cape Town Spurs form and stats

Cape Town Spurs have been very solid at home in the Gladafrica Championship so far, with 15 points collected from 6 matches (5-0-1). This has contributed greatly to their 6th position in the table. Ever since the JDR Stars game Spurs has been unbeatable here at Athlone Stadium producing five straight wins.

Cape Town Spurs's last game was hosting Magesi (placed 9th) and winning 1-0.

A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Casric Stars.

Trench warfare? In this team's last 11 league matches, 9 have seen zero, one or two goals.

Spurs have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Athlone Stadium with 9 goals in 6 league matches. Cape Town Spurs are not conceding a lot of goals here at Athlone Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 6 matches.

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Uthongathi form and stats

Playing away, Uthongathi have won 3 games, drawn 3 and suffered 1 defeat in the Gladafrica Championship this season.

Two away matches in a row for Uthongathi, whose coach Zothwane could celebrate last time after the win against Black Leopards. That victory felt sweet as this side had gone four league matches without victory.

Before that, Uthongathi travelled to Venda FC and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

Low on goals? 10 of this team's latest 13 league fixtures have had two goals or less.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Casric Stars in just four days.

Uthongathi have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 7 league away games 8 goals have been scored. Uthongathi are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 6 times in 7 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head data (for the former eight meetings): Cape Town Spurs won two games, two matches ended in a draw and Uthongathi have four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / four.

Top Goalscorers

SpursA. Cupido
A. Cupido
6 goals
UthongathiT. Mohlamme
T. Mohlamme
4 goals
Cape Town SpursT. Moosa
T. Moosa
3 goals

Cape Town Spurs missing players

Uthongathi missing players

Cape Town Spurs Uthongathi
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
14 6 1 Played P 2 7 14
7 5 1 Won W 0 3 5
3 0 0 Drew D 1 3 7
4 1 0 Lost L 1 1 2
16 9 1 Scored S 0 8 14
11 3 0 Conceded C 1 6 11
93% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 86% 86%
50% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 71% 57%
29% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 43% 29%
14% 17% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 7%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
43% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 71% 57%
36% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 50% 14% 29%
29% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 29% 29%
 
5.6 6.2 5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 2.5 3.1
5.8 6.2 8 Corners against (avg) C A 0 2 4.9
1.6 1.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 0.8 0.9
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
10.1 11.8 11 Shots (avg) S ( 0 8 5.4
3.4 4.5 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 2.2
39% 33% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 38% 45%
 
7.7 6.7 9 Shots against (avg) S A 0 10 7.2
2 1.8 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 2.8
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 scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Cape Town Spurs haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Uthongathi have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Uthongathi have the most points from losing position (9) in Gladafrica Championship
  • Uthongathi have won significantly less corners away then at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Polokwane City 15 9 3 3 22 13 8 7 1 0 15 4 7 2 2 3 7 9 9 30
2 Casric Stars 15 9 3 3 20 12 9 7 1 1 14 6 6 2 2 2 6 6 8 30
3 Cape Town All Stars 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 JDR Stars 15 8 3 4 22 10 9 6 1 2 14 5 6 2 2 2 8 5 12 27
4 All Stars 15 7 5 3 15 7 7 4 3 0 10 2 8 3 2 3 5 5 8 26
5 Free State Stars 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Hungry Lions 15 8 2 5 16 12 7 5 2 0 11 3 8 3 0 5 5 9 4 26
6 Cape Town Spurs 14 7 3 4 16 11 6 5 0 1 9 3 8 2 3 3 7 8 5 24
7 Uthongathi 14 5 7 2 14 11 7 2 4 1 6 5 7 3 3 1 8 6 3 22
8 University of Pretoria 15 5 6 4 16 17 8 2 2 4 9 14 7 3 4 0 7 3 -1 21
9 Magesi 15 5 4 6 12 18 8 5 2 1 11 6 7 0 2 5 1 12 -6 19
10 Baroka 15 5 3 7 18 18 8 3 2 3 12 10 7 2 1 4 6 8 0 18
11 TTM 15 5 1 9 14 22 7 3 0 4 6 9 8 2 1 5 8 13 -8 16
12 Platinum City Rovers 15 4 3 8 12 19 6 1 2 3 3 7 9 3 1 5 9 12 -7 15
13 Venda FC 15 4 3 8 7 17 5 3 2 0 4 1 10 1 1 8 3 16 -10 15
14 Pretoria Callies 15 4 2 9 12 15 8 2 1 5 6 8 7 2 1 4 6 7 -3 14
15 MM Platinum 15 4 2 9 15 21 7 4 2 1 11 6 8 0 0 8 4 15 -6 14
16 Black Leopards 15 2 6 7 11 19 9 1 3 5 4 8 6 1 3 2 7 11 -8 12