Premier League match prediction: Little separates Cape Town City and Kaizer Chiefs in quality

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Competition: South Africa Premier League
Competition: Sat 16.January
Match begins: 15:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cape Town Stadium (64100 seats)

It's advantage Cape Town City so far with their 5th position in the Premier League table, welcoming Kaizer Chiefs who are placed 10th.

Insights:
  • Cape Town City has the most conceded goals (16) in Premier League
  • Cape Town City have scored more than double the goals of Kaizer Chiefs.

Kaizer Chiefs could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Premier League game only three sleeps ago. That game, against AmaZulu, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Kaizer Chiefs.

Kaizer Chiefs have a very long trip to this away game, as there's more than 1300 kilometers in distance to cover. This could prove a challenge, at least for the supporters.

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Cape Town City form and stats

When playing at home in the Premier League, Cape Town City, who have the most conceded goals (16) in Premier League, have managed 2 wins, 2 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 5 games.

Cape Town City shared the glory with Tshakhuma in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2. Heartbreak before that as Cape Town City lost 2-3 at Moroka Swallows's place.

Opportunity lost for Cape in the Tshakhuma match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw.

This is expected to be a close game, with Cape Town City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Cape Town City as a small favourite), we find three games. Cape Town City has won one of these, drawn zero and lost two.

There will be little rest for Cape after this match as they are travelling to Black Leopards for a Premier League game in only four days.

Cape Town City can score goals in their home matches. After 5 league matches they have found the net 10 times. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Cape defense is not exactly impregnable. 9 goals conceded from 5 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Kaizer Chiefs form and stats

The visitors are W2-D1-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Kaizer are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.

It's the second away game in a row for Kaizer, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus AmaZulu (placed 9th) in the Premier League last time out. Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus Maritzburg United.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Kaizer Chiefs in our archives, and the results are: six wins for Kaizer Chiefs, zero draws and one defeat.

After this away game Kaizer Chiefs return home for a Premier League game against Tshakhuma. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Kaizer are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 5 away goals from 5 games (in the league). Kaizer have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Cape Town City-Kaizer Chiefs H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Cape Town City two wins, Kaizer Chiefs six wins, two draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Cape Town CityM. Mdantsane
M. Mdantsane
7 goals
CapeF. Lakay
F. Lakay
3 goals
Cape Town CityT. Nodada
T. Nodada
3 goals

Cape Town City missing players

Kaizer Chiefs missing players

Cape Town City Kaizer Chiefs
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 5 0 Played P 2 5 10
4 2 0 Won W 0 2 2
4 2 0 Drew D 0 1 4
2 1 0 Lost L 2 2 4
18 10 0 Scored S 1 5 8
16 9 0 Conceded C 3 5 13
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 90%
90% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 40% 60%
60% 60% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 40% 40%
50% 60% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 20%
30% 40% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
80% 80% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 40% 40%
10% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 40% 30%
10% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 20% 40%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.1 1 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2.2 1.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
4.7 5 0 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 10 9.4
2.5 2.4 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 4 3.4
72% 83% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 25% 24%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Cape Town City's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Cape Town City has the most conceded goals (16) in Premier League
  • Cape Town City has the most scored goals in the first half (15) in Premier League
  • Cape Town City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Cape Town City have scored more than double the goals of Kaizer Chiefs.
  • Cape Town City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Kaizer Chiefs haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Mamelodi Sundowns 10 7 3 0 19 5 5 4 1 0 10 3 5 3 2 0 9 2 14 24
2 SuperSport United 10 7 1 2 19 11 5 4 1 0 9 4 5 3 0 2 10 7 8 22
3 Moroka Swallows 10 6 4 0 14 6 5 4 1 0 7 2 5 2 3 0 7 4 8 22
4 Orlando Pirates 10 4 5 1 13 8 5 2 3 0 6 4 5 2 2 1 7 4 5 17
5 Cape Town City 10 4 4 2 18 16 5 2 2 1 10 9 5 2 2 1 8 7 2 16
6 Golden Arrows 9 3 6 0 13 8 5 2 3 0 8 5 4 1 3 0 5 3 5 15
7 Stellenbosch 10 3 4 3 11 11 5 2 2 1 7 4 5 1 2 2 4 7 0 13
8 Baroka 10 3 3 4 12 15 5 2 1 2 6 8 5 1 2 2 6 7 -3 12
9 AmaZulu 10 2 4 4 12 13 6 2 2 2 7 6 4 0 2 2 5 7 -1 10
10 Kaizer Chiefs 10 2 4 4 8 13 5 0 3 2 3 8 5 2 1 2 5 5 -5 10
11 Bloemfontein Celtic 10 2 3 5 10 13 5 2 2 1 5 3 5 0 1 4 5 10 -3 9
12 Tshakhuma 10 1 6 3 7 13 6 1 3 2 5 9 4 0 3 1 2 4 -6 9
13 Maritzburg United 10 2 2 6 10 15 5 1 2 2 6 7 5 1 0 4 4 8 -5 8
14 TS Galaxy 10 1 5 4 7 13 5 1 2 2 4 7 5 0 3 2 3 6 -6 8
15 Chippa United 10 1 3 6 9 15 3 1 1 1 4 3 7 0 2 5 5 12 -6 6
16 Black Leopards 9 1 3 5 7 14 4 1 1 2 4 6 5 0 2 3 3 8 -7 6