Betting preview: Baroka vs AmaZulu should be interesting

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Competition: South Africa Premier League
Date: Sun 28.April
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Peter Mokaba Stadium (45264 seats)

An important duel in the bottom section of the league table, with both teams experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic “six-pointer” with the home team placed 14th and the visitors in 11th place.

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.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Baroka form and stats

With 1 win, 6 draws and 6 defeats from their home games, Baroka are certainly not brimming with confidence. Baroka are slowly digging their own grave here at Peter Mokaba Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home game in nine attempts. The last victory here came in the Bidvest Wits match.

The home team returns to Peter Mokaba Stadium after sharing the points with Free State Stars on their last time out; the Premier League game ended 2-2. Before that game, the home loss against Mamelodi Sundowns with the scoreline 1-2.

This is expected to be a close game, with Baroka perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Baroka as a small favourite), we find ten games. Baroka has won 1 of these, drawn 6 and lost 3.

Baroka aren't scoring a lot here at Peter Mokaba Stadium with only 12 goals from 13 games. 18 goals have been conceded.

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AmaZulu form and stats

There's been little loot from AmaZulu's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 13 away games. AmaZulu only has 3 wins to counter their 9 defeats and 1 draw.

AmaZulu won their last game, 2-0 versus SuperSport United played at home. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Golden Arrows that ended 1-1.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with AmaZulu playing away and similar expectations, we found five relevant matches. Results were 1 AmaZulu win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

The attacking power of AmaZulu when travelling is not overwhelming with 12 goals scored in 13 matches. AmaZulu have conceded 27 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the AmaZulu - Baroka 1-0 earlier this season. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's 1 Baroka victory, 1 draw and 1 AmaZulu win.

Top Goalscorers

B. Ntuli
7 goals
M. Mdantsane
3 goals / 5 assists
J. Dickens
3 goals / 1 assists

Baroka missing players

AmaZulu missing players

Baroka AmaZulu
Total Home Home vs low Statistic Away vs low Away Total
27 13 3 Played 4 13 27
5 1 0 Won 1 3 10
10 6 2 Drew 0 1 6
12 6 1 Lost 3 9 11
24 12 2 Scored 4 12 31
33 18 3 Conceded 9 27 36
89% 85% 67% Over 0.5 100% 100% 89%
63% 77% 67% Over 1.5 75% 85% 70%
44% 54% 33% Over 2.5 75% 62% 44%
15% 15% 0% Over 3.5 50% 31% 22%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 25% 23% 19%
59% 77% 67% BTTS 75% 54% 41%
19% 15% 33% Clean Sheets 25% 15% 41%
33% 23% 33% Failed To Score 0% 31% 30%
 
4.8 6.6 9.3 Corners For (avg) 2.8 4.2 4.6
4.9 4.6 4.7 Corners Against (avg) 5.2 4.5 4.3
1.5 1.1 0.3 Yellow Cards (avg) 3 2.7 2.2
2 2 0 Red Cards 0 0 0

Baroka
All League Cup Premier League Nedbank Cup Club Friendlies
All Home Away
23-02-19 PL SuperSport United 1 - 2 Baroka
03-03-19 PL Baroka 1 - 3 Polokwane City
09-03-19 PL Highlands Park 2 - 1 Baroka
13-03-19 PL Baroka 0 - 1 Golden Arrows
06-04-19 PL Kaizer Chiefs 0 - 1 Baroka
20-04-19 PL Baroka 1 - 2 Mamelodi Sundowns
24-04-19 PL Free State Stars 2 - 2 Baroka
28-04-19 PL Baroka 13:00 AmaZulu
04-05-19 PL Bidvest Wits 13:00 Baroka
11-05-19 PL Baroka 13:00 Maritzburg United
AmaZulu
All League Cup Premier League Nedbank Cup
All Home Away
23-02-19 PL Orlando Pirates 4 - 1 AmaZulu
01-03-19 PL Maritzburg United 2 - 1 AmaZulu
09-03-19 PL AmaZulu 2 - 0 Bidvest Wits
16-03-19 PL Free State Stars 4 - 1 AmaZulu
06-04-19 PL AmaZulu 0 - 1 Chippa United
14-04-19 PL Golden Arrows 1 - 1 AmaZulu
24-04-19 PL AmaZulu 2 - 0 SuperSport United
28-04-19 PL Baroka 13:00 AmaZulu
04-05-19 PL AmaZulu 13:00 Black Leopards
11-05-19 PL Bloemfontein Celtic 13:00 AmaZulu

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Orlando Pirates 28 14 11 3 39 22 14 6 7 1 22 12 14 8 4 2 17 10 17 53
2 Mamelodi Sundowns 27 13 11 3 35 23 14 5 7 2 16 12 13 8 4 1 19 11 12 50
3 Bidvest Wits 27 14 5 8 40 27 14 6 2 6 19 14 13 8 3 2 21 13 13 47
4 SuperSport United 27 12 7 8 27 23 13 7 3 3 16 9 14 5 4 5 11 14 4 43
5 Cape Town City 26 11 8 7 40 32 14 7 5 2 26 16 12 4 3 5 14 16 8 41
6 Polokwane City 27 10 11 6 35 29 14 6 4 4 22 18 13 4 7 2 13 11 6 41
7 Kaizer Chiefs 27 9 11 7 32 26 14 5 4 5 14 14 13 4 7 2 18 12 6 38
8 Highlands Park 27 7 14 6 32 30 13 6 5 2 19 14 14 1 9 4 13 16 2 35
9 Bloemfontein Celtic 26 9 7 10 31 32 12 4 3 5 14 13 14 5 4 5 17 19 -1 34
10 Golden Arrows 27 7 12 8 25 27 13 5 3 5 13 13 14 2 9 3 12 14 -2 33
11 AmaZulu 27 10 6 11 31 36 14 7 5 2 19 9 13 3 1 9 12 27 -5 30
12 Free State Stars 27 6 8 13 29 43 14 4 5 5 19 20 13 2 3 8 10 23 -14 26
13 Black Leopards 26 6 8 12 26 41 12 5 4 3 14 10 14 1 4 9 12 31 -15 26
14 Baroka 27 5 10 12 24 33 13 1 6 6 12 18 14 4 4 6 12 15 -9 25
15 Chippa United 27 5 9 13 23 32 13 3 4 6 10 12 14 2 5 7 13 20 -9 24
16 Maritzburg United 27 4 8 15 16 29 14 3 6 5 12 14 13 1 2 10 4 15 -13 20

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