The visiting Tshakhuma side should be favourites in this visit to Richards Bay, as the away team holds a 9 point advantage from their 18 league games this season.
This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!
Richards Bay form and stats
With 2 Gladafrica Championship wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Richards Bay are certainly not brimming with confidence. Game days at Richards Bay Sports Stadium have recently become somewhat of a nightmare for Richards Bay as they have lost three home games in a row. It hurts.
The Richards Bay crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Uthongathi here at Richards Bay Sports Stadium in a Gladafrica Championship match. In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Cape Umoya United.
Richards Bay are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 11 goals in 8 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 12 goals have been conceded.
Tshakhuma form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Tshakhuma so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-4 (win-draw-lose).
187 minutes! That's how long the Tshakhuma goalkeeper and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
Tshakhuma are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the Gladafrica Championship against Mbombela United (placed 14th). Prior to that match, a home win 5-0 against Royal Eagles.
Tshakhuma are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 8 games (in the league). In the opposite end, Tshakhuma have conceded 12 goals in their away games.
Head 2 Head
Tshakhuma - Richards Bay 0-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last four meetings: 1 - 1 - 2 (Richards Bay wins - draws - Tshakhuma wins). As for goals, 0 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 4 had two or less.Top Goalscorers
 P. Bhengu 7 goals | O. Ononogbu 5 goals |
Richards Bay missing players
Tshakhuma missing players
| Richards Bay | Tshakhuma | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 8 | 18 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 17 | 11 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 9 | 27 |
| 24 | 12 | 6 | Conceded | C | 5 | 12 | 19 |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 88% | 89% |
| 61% | 88% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 75% | 78% |
| 44% | 62% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 28% | 25% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 38% | 28% |
| 6% | 12% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 11% |
| 50% | 75% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 62% | 56% |
| 33% | 12% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 12% | 28% |
| 28% | 12% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 38% | 28% |
| 1.6 | 0 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 3 | 4.6 | 4 |
| 1.7 | 0 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 1.5 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
| 0.4 | 0 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.2 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 47 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 8 | 22 | 150 |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 5 | 11 | 63 |
| 73% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 27% | 32% |
- Richards Bay has the fewest points (8) at home
- Richards Bay have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Richards Bay have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Richards Bay haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Richards Bay is in the worst form (1-0-5)
- Tshakhuma have created more than twice as many corners as Richards Bay.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Uthongathi | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 34 |
| 2 | Ajax Cape Town | 17 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 34 | 27 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 32 |
| 3 | Steenberg United | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 28 | 24 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 32 |
| 4 | Moroka Swallows | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 30 |
| 5 | Tshakhuma | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 19 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 29 |
| 6 | JDR Stars | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 30 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 27 |
| 7 | Real Kings | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 27 |
| 8 | University of Pretoria | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 28 | 29 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -1 | 26 |
| 9 | Free State Stars | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 23 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 25 |
| 10 | Cape Umoya United | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 14 | -1 | 21 |
| 11 | TS Galaxy | 18 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 11 | -1 | 21 |
| 12 | Richards Bay | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -7 | 20 |
| 13 | TS Sporting | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -7 | 18 |
| 14 | Mbombela United | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 11 | -2 | 17 |
| 15 | Jomo Cosmos | 18 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -11 | 16 |
| 16 | Royal Eagles | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 36 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 18 | -15 | 13 |