The visiting Tshakhuma side should be favourites in this visit to TS Sporting, as the away team holds a 8 point advantage from their nine 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!
TS Sporting form and stats
TS Sporting, who have the the worst goal difference (-6) in Gladafrica Championship, have played 5 Gladafrica Championship games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).
In their previous game, the manager M. Makhubedu led his TS Sporting to a defeat in the Gladafrica Championship match away at University of Pretoria. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Kabokweni Stadium. Preceding that match was the home game against Ajax Cape Town that was lost 2-3.
A goal frenzy last time out for TS Sporting, with a total of 6 goals in the match against University of Pretoria. Fun stuff to watch!
This is expected to be a close game, with TS Sporting perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with TS Sporting as a small favourite), we find five games. TS Sporting has won 1 of these, drawn 1 and lost 3.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for TS Sporting here at Kabokweni Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (4 from 5 games). On the other hand, TS Sporting have conceded 6 goals.
Tshakhuma form and stats
Playing away, Tshakhuma have won 1 game, drawn 1 and suffered 2 defeats in the Gladafrica Championship this season.
Tshakhuma play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting Royal Eagles (placed 16th). Before that, Tshakhuma secured a home win against JDR Stars with the score 3-1.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found three similar matches played by Tshakhuma in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Tshakhuma, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
Tshakhuma have scored 5 goals on their travels this season, from 4 away games in the league. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Tshakhuma have conceded 6 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
As for the last two games between these two teams, there's 0 TS Sporting victories, 0 draws and 2 Tshakhuma wins. 2 of these games ended with three goals or more, 0 matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
| D. Chauke 7 goals | P. Bhengu 7 goals | O. Ononogbu 5 goals |
TS Sporting missing players
Tshakhuma missing players
| TS Sporting | Tshakhuma | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 14 |
| 17 | 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| 90% | 80% | 50% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 75% | 78% |
| 80% | 60% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 75% | 78% |
| 40% | 20% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 56% |
| 40% | 20% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 50% | 33% |
| 20% | 20% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 11% |
| 60% | 20% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 56% |
| 20% | 40% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 25% | 33% |
| 30% | 60% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 33% |
| 1.1 | 0 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 2.7 | 2.7 |
| 2.4 | 0 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4 | 4.7 |
| 0.3 | 0 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.7 | 1.4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- TS Sporting have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- TS Sporting have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Tshakhuma have created more than twice as many corners as TS Sporting.
| 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 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 25 |
| 2 | JDR Stars | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 17 |
| 3 | Ajax Cape Town | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 17 |
| 4 | Tshakhuma | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 15 |
| 5 | University of Pretoria | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 15 |
| 6 | Real Kings | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 |
| 7 | Steenberg United | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -1 | 14 |
| 8 | Richards Bay | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| 9 | Cape Umoya United | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -3 | 12 |
| 10 | Moroka Swallows | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -3 | 12 |
| 11 | TS Galaxy | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 12 | Free State Stars | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -3 | 10 |
| 13 | Mbombela United | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 8 |
| 14 | Jomo Cosmos | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 15 | TS Sporting | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | -6 | 7 |
| 16 | Royal Eagles | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -5 | 6 |