SuperSport United get ready to welcome Bloemfontein Celtic for something different than the ordinary league football: The Mtn 8 Cup Semi-finals leg 1 of 2.
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.
SuperSport United form and stats
1 victory, 0 draws and 0 defeats. That’s what SuperSport United have to build on here in the Premier League. It’s been three wins in a row for SuperSport United here, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
No payout for SuperSport United in their previous match, an away game at Golden Arrows that ended in defeat 1-3. Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Black Leopards.
This is expected to be a close game, with SuperSport United perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with SuperSport United as a small favourite), we find five games. SuperSport has won one of these, drawn three and lost one.
The match schedule is unforgiving for SuperSport as they have a new game in only three days, a Premier League match thankfully also at home. Stellenbosch are visiting.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the SuperSport United at home in the league. 2 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Bloemfontein Celtic form and stats
They also participated in Mtn 8 Cup last season. This ended in the quarter-finals.0-0-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Bloemfontein Celtic in their Premier League matches away.
Two away games in a row for Bloemfontein Celtic, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Moroka Swallows in the Premier League. A 1-1 draw was the result before that, hosting Golden Arrows in the Premier League.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Bloemfontein Celtic in our archives, and the results are: one win for Bloemfontein, seven draws and five defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Orlando Pirates in just three days.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Bloemfontein Celtic has managed 0 goals and let in 1 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): SuperSport two wins, eight draws and Bloemfontein Celtic zero victories. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Grobler 13 goals |  N. Mabena 9 goals | S. Letsoalo 7 goals |
SuperSport United missing players
Bloemfontein Celtic missing players
| SuperSport United | Bloemfontein Celtic | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Won | W | 3 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Drew | D | 4 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
| 35 | 22 | Scored | S | 13 | 37 | ||
| 20 | 8 | Conceded | C | 15 | 30 | ||
| 96% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 68% | 92% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 80% | ||
| 32% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 28% | ||
| 8% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 16% | ||
| 36% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 16% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 24% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.2 | 1.2 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 273 | 151 | Total Shots | T S | 85 | 199 | ||
| 94 | 47 | Shots on Target | S O | 31 | 87 | ||
| 36% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 41% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Baroka | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | Mamelodi Sundowns | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Golden Arrows | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Cape Town City | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Moroka Swallows | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | TS Galaxy | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | SuperSport United | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Kaizer Chiefs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -2 | 3 |
| 9 | Orlando Pirates | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Stellenbosch | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Tshakhuma | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | AmaZulu | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 13 | Bloemfontein Celtic | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 14 | Chippa United | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 15 | Maritzburg United | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
| 16 | Black Leopards | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -4 | 0 |