TS Sporting vs Tshakhuma match preview: Even contest expected at Kabokweni Stadium

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Competition: South Africa Gladafrica Championship
Date: Sat 09.November
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Kabokweni Stadium (8000 seats)

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!

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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.

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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
P. Bhengu
7 goals
 
O. Ononogbu
5 goals

TS Sporting missing players

Tshakhuma missing players

TS Sporting Tshakhuma
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low 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
Key stats this season:
  • 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