Gladafrica Championship match preview and statistics: Free State Stars fight Polokwane City

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Competition: South Africa Gladafrica Championship
Competition: Sat 23.January
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Goble Park Stadium (20000 seats)

Free State Stars hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 9 points and a 13th position in the Gladafrica Championship table. Visiting Polokwane City holds 7th place with 12 pts.

Insights:
  • Free State Stars have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Free State Stars form and stats

1-1-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Gladafrica Championship numbers at home for Free State Stars so far this season.

The State fans got no joy from their last match, a Gladafrica Championship game also here at Goble Park Stadium: A 1-2 defeat against Sekhukhune United (placed 2nd).

The manager A. Freese will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Steenberg United in only four days.

State have scored 3 league goals here from 4 matches, not a lot. On the other hand, State have conceded 4 goals.

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Polokwane City form and stats

The visitors are W1-D2-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Gladafrica Championship.

Polokwane City are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Pretoria Callies (placed 15th).

After this away game Polokwane return home for a Gladafrica Championship game against Richards Bay. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Goals are few and far between in Polokwane's away league games. Only 2 goals from 4 travels. Polokwane City are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 4 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's three State victories, three draws and four Polokwane City wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

StateK. Mkhabela
K. Mkhabela
2 goals
Polokwane CityP. Tlolane
P. Tlolane
2 goals
Polokwane CityM. Buthelezi
M. Buthelezi
2 goals

Free State Stars missing players

Polokwane City missing players

Free State Stars Polokwane City
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 4 1 Played P 3 4 8
2 1 0 Won W 1 1 3
3 1 0 Drew D 2 2 3
4 2 1 Lost L 0 1 2
8 3 0 Scored S 2 2 7
11 4 1 Conceded C 1 3 7
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 75% 88%
78% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 50% 50%
22% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 25%
11% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 12%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
56% 50% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 25% 38%
22% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 67% 50% 50%
22% 25% 100% Failed to Score F T 33% 50% 25%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 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
 
0 0 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 0 0
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
Key stats in Gladafrica Championship this season:
  • Free State Stars have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Free State Stars haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Jomo Cosmos 9 5 3 1 10 5 5 1 3 1 4 4 4 4 0 0 6 1 5 18
2 Sekhukhune United 9 4 3 2 13 7 4 3 0 1 8 2 5 1 3 1 5 5 6 15
3 JDR Stars 9 4 3 2 14 9 5 2 1 2 8 6 4 2 2 0 6 3 5 15
4 Cape Umoya United 8 4 2 2 13 11 3 3 0 0 5 1 5 1 2 2 8 10 2 14
5 Richards Bay 9 3 4 2 11 8 4 0 3 1 3 4 5 3 1 1 8 4 3 13
6 Uthongathi 8 3 4 1 7 6 4 1 2 1 4 5 4 2 2 0 3 1 1 13
7 Polokwane City 8 3 3 2 7 7 4 2 1 1 5 4 4 1 2 1 2 3 0 12
8 Cape Town All Stars 9 2 5 2 9 9 5 2 2 1 5 3 4 0 3 1 4 6 0 11
9 Steenberg United 9 3 2 4 11 13 5 3 1 1 6 4 4 0 1 3 5 9 -2 11
10 TS Sporting 9 2 4 3 10 10 5 0 3 2 5 7 4 2 1 1 5 3 0 10
11 University of Pretoria 9 3 1 5 6 8 5 2 1 2 4 4 4 1 0 3 2 4 -2 10
12 Real Kings 9 2 4 3 8 11 4 2 2 0 7 4 5 0 2 3 1 7 -3 10
13 Free State Stars 9 2 3 4 8 11 4 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 2 5 7 -3 9
14 Bizana Pondo Chiefs 8 2 2 4 6 8 4 2 2 0 5 1 4 0 0 4 1 7 -2 8
15 Pretoria Callies 8 1 4 3 4 7 4 1 1 2 2 4 4 0 3 1 2 3 -3 7
16 Ajax Cape Town 8 1 3 4 6 13 4 0 2 2 4 8 4 1 1 2 2 5 -7 6