Peter Mokaba Stadium: Black Leopards vs Kaizer Chiefs Premier League preview

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Competition: South Africa Premier League
Date: Sat 18.January
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Peter Mokaba Stadium (45500 seats)

The visiting Kaizer Chiefs side should be favourites in this visit to Black Leopards, as the away team holds a 25 point advantage from their 17 league games this season.

Black Leopards and Kaizer Chiefs should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Black Leopards form and stats

Black Leopards have collected 11 points from their Premier League home games so far after 3-2-4. It's trouble wherever Black Leopards are playing these days as they have suffered four straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.

The fans are hoping that Black Leopards will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 2-4 away loss in the Premier League game against Bloemfontein Celtic (placed 5th). Preceding that match was the home game against Chippa United that was lost 1-2.

A goal frenzy last time out for Black Leopards, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Bloemfontein Celtic. Fun stuff to watch!

Black Leopards have scored 8 league goals here from 9 matches, not a lot. On the other hand, Black Leopards have conceded 10 goals.

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Kaizer Chiefs form and stats

The away team, who have the most scored goals (36) in Premier League, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 6 wins, 1 draw and only 1 loss in the Premier League.

Kaizer Chiefs have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Daniel Akpeyi. It's been 208 minutes since they last conceded in Premier League.

Kaizer Chiefs are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the Premier League against Cape Town City (placed 13th). Before that, Kaizer Chiefs secured a home win against Highlands Park with the score 3-0.

Kaizer Chiefs have scored more than twice on average per away game (in the league), an impressive attacking display. They have 17 goals from 8 away matches. It's not easy to score on Kaizer Chiefs as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Black Leopards and Kaizer Chiefs have met before this season: Kaizer Chiefs - Black Leopards 1-0. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 2 - 3 - 5 (Black Leopards wins - draws - Kaizer Chiefs wins). As for goals, 2 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 8 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Kaizer ChiefsS. Nurkovic
S. Nurkovic
9 goals
Kaizer ChiefsD. Castro
D. Castro
7 goals
Black Leopards
L. Kapinga
5 goals

Black Leopards missing players

Kaizer Chiefs missing players

Black Leopards Kaizer Chiefs
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 9 2 Played P 3 8 17
4 3 1 Won W 3 6 13
4 2 0 Drew D 0 1 2
9 4 1 Lost L 0 1 2
17 8 2 Scored S 8 17 36
27 10 2 Conceded C 1 6 13
94% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
71% 67% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 82%
59% 44% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 47%
24% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 25% 24%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 12% 18%
59% 56% 50% BTTS BTTS 33% 50% 41%
18% 22% 50% Clean Sheets C S 67% 50% 53%
29% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 6%
 
5 6.2 2.5 Corners For (avg) C F 5.7 4.8 4.8
4.9 5 5 Corners Against (avg) C A 4.7 6.5 6
1.5 1.4 1 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 2 1.9 1.7
0 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 0 1
 
165 83 19 Total Shots T S 56 122 223
58 27 7 Shots on Target S O 19 39 80
29% 30% 29% Goal Efficiency G E 42% 44% 45%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Kaizer Chiefs's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Black Leopards has the fewest clean sheets (3)
  • Black Leopards has the most conceded goals in the first half (18)
  • Black Leopards has the most matches over the total-line (11)
  • Black Leopards have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Kaizer Chiefs has the most points (19) away
  • Kaizer Chiefs has the most scored goals (17) away
  • Kaizer Chiefs has the most scored goals (36)
  • Kaizer Chiefs has the most scored goals in the first half (15)
  • Kaizer Chiefs has the most scored goals in the second half (21)
  • Kaizer Chiefs has the the best goal difference (+11) away
  • Kaizer Chiefs has the the best goal difference (+23)
  • Kaizer Chiefs have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Kaizer Chiefs have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Kaizer Chiefs have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Kaizer Chiefs have scored more than double the goals of Black Leopards.
  • Kaizer Chiefs haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Kaizer Chiefs 17 13 2 2 36 13 9 7 1 1 19 7 8 6 1 1 17 6 23 41
2 Mamelodi Sundowns 16 9 5 2 22 12 9 6 2 1 11 5 7 3 3 1 11 7 10 32
3 SuperSport United 18 8 7 3 26 17 9 4 5 0 16 9 9 4 2 3 10 8 9 31
4 Bidvest Wits 13 8 3 2 18 8 6 3 1 2 9 7 7 5 2 0 9 1 10 27
5 Bloemfontein Celtic 17 6 6 5 27 22 9 4 3 2 18 10 8 2 3 3 9 12 5 24
6 Orlando Pirates 16 6 6 4 27 23 7 4 3 0 14 8 9 2 3 4 13 15 4 24
7 Maritzburg United 17 5 8 4 13 13 8 3 3 2 8 8 9 2 5 2 5 5 0 23
8 Highlands Park 18 6 5 7 19 23 9 5 1 3 14 11 9 1 4 4 5 12 -4 23
9 Golden Arrows 17 6 5 6 16 22 8 5 2 1 12 8 9 1 3 5 4 14 -6 23
10 Chippa United 18 5 6 7 12 14 10 2 6 2 5 4 8 3 0 5 7 10 -2 21
11 Stellenbosch 18 4 6 8 17 24 7 1 3 3 4 10 11 3 3 5 13 14 -7 18
12 Baroka 18 4 5 9 10 15 10 1 4 5 6 11 8 3 1 4 4 4 -5 17
13 Cape Town City 18 3 8 7 22 28 9 3 3 3 11 10 9 0 5 4 11 18 -6 17
14 AmaZulu 18 4 5 9 11 22 9 2 2 5 4 13 9 2 3 4 7 9 -11 17
15 Black Leopards 17 4 4 9 17 27 9 3 2 4 8 10 8 1 2 5 9 17 -10 16
16 Polokwane City 18 5 1 12 15 25 9 3 0 6 7 11 9 2 1 6 8 14 -10 16