Premier League prediction and guide: Cape Town City small front runner to subdue Moroka Swallows

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Competition: South Africa Premier League
Competition: Sun 19.February
Match begins: 15:30 (UTC)
Venue: Al-Nidal Stadium (500 seats)

Cape Town City have 26 points performing as the team playing at home. Moroka Swallows have gained 21 points as the visiting team. Are we looking at a home win?

Insights:
  • Moroka Swallows have the fewest points (4) away in Premier League

Moroka Swallows 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.

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.

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Cape Town City form and stats

The overall Premier League stats at home this season for Cape Town City are 6-3-2 (wins-draws-losses). There’s a good atmosphere here at Al-Nidal Stadium after three straight home wins.

Cape Town City's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Moroka Swallows (placed 14th). The home side are looking to build on that result.

A 0-0 scoreline against Real Kings before that, played at home in the Nedbank Cup. The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Cape Town City handle that role? We have found 16 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 12 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat.

The Cape Town City fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 12 in 11 matches. Cape are not conceding a lot of goals here at Al-Nidal Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 11 matches.

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Moroka Swallows form and stats

There's been little loot from Moroka Swallows's travels as they have only collected 4 points from 10 away games in the Premier League. Moroka Swallows only have 0 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 4 draws. The loyal fans travelling with their beloved Moroka Swallows have enjoyed the stadium food more than the matches as the visitors have gone ten consecutive matches without winning on the road.

Moroka Swallows are travelling again after losing away to Cape Town City in their previous match (0-2).

A defeat, in the Nedbank Cup away at Stellenbosch, earlier. We have checked recent matches where Moroka Swallows have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 8 games were 1 victory, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

Look out: 10 of the latest 11 league matches involving this club have seen only one (or no) team scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in sports betting).

Swallows are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed {2 goals} from 10 away games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Moroka Swallows have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Cape - Moroka Swallows 2-0 was the outcome when these participants last played each other, also in this season. Allan (Moroka Swallows), Mkhize (Cape Town City) and Sam (Moroka Swallows) were shown red cards when these teams met earlier this season. Will it be as violent this time? H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Cape five wins, three draws and Moroka Swallows two victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Cape Town CityD. González Mendoza
D. González Mendoza
5 goals
Cape Town CityK. Mayo
K. Mayo
4 goals
Moroka SwallowsM. Musonda
M. Musonda
3 goals

Cape Town City missing players

Moroka Swallows missing players

Cape Town City Moroka Swallows
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
20 11 3 Played P 3 10 20
7 6 1 Won W 0 0 5
5 3 2 Drew D 1 4 6
8 2 0 Lost L 2 6 9
21 12 3 Scored S 0 2 16
22 7 2 Conceded C 5 13 23
90% 82% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 80% 80%
70% 64% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 50% 60%
35% 27% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 10% 30%
10% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 10% 15%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 10%
50% 36% 67% BTTS BTTS 0% 20% 35%
30% 45% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 20% 35%
30% 36% 33% Failed to Score F T 100% 80% 50%
 
4.7 4.5 6 Corners for (avg) C F 2 3.1 3.4
4 4.9 5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.3 5.5 5.6
2.2 2.5 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.5 1.4
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 2 3
 
9.9 11 11.7 Shots (avg) S ( 9 7.4 7.8
3.7 4.1 4.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 2.2 2.8
28% 27% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 9% 29%
 
8.5 8.4 6.7 Shots against (avg) S A 10.7 9.3 8.9
3.5 3.5 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.7 3.5 3.1
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Cape Town City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Moroka Swallows have scored away.
  • Moroka Swallows have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Moroka Swallows have the fewest points (4) away in Premier League
  • Moroka Swallows have the fewest scored goals (2) away in Premier League
  • Moroka Swallows have the the worst goal difference (-11) away in Premier League
  • Moroka Swallows have yet to win a 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 21 18 1 2 39 7 11 10 0 1 20 3 10 8 1 1 19 4 32 55
2 SuperSport United 20 9 6 5 24 17 9 5 4 0 14 6 11 4 2 5 10 11 7 33
3 Orlando Pirates 20 9 4 7 21 15 11 6 2 3 14 7 9 3 2 4 7 8 6 31
4 Richards Bay 20 8 7 5 16 13 9 3 4 2 4 4 11 5 3 3 12 9 3 31
5 Kaizer Chiefs 20 8 4 8 22 24 10 4 2 4 13 10 10 4 2 4 9 14 -2 28
6 Sekhukhune United 20 7 6 7 18 19 9 5 3 1 12 6 11 2 3 6 6 13 -1 27
7 TS Galaxy 21 5 11 5 15 12 10 2 5 3 8 5 11 3 6 2 7 7 3 26
8 Cape Town City 20 7 5 8 21 22 11 6 3 2 12 7 9 1 2 6 9 15 -1 26
9 Real Kings 20 7 4 9 22 28 11 4 4 3 11 10 9 3 0 6 11 18 -6 25
10 Golden Arrows 21 7 4 10 25 32 12 4 3 5 15 16 9 3 1 5 10 16 -7 25
11 AmaZulu 20 5 9 6 19 18 10 4 2 4 13 10 10 1 7 2 6 8 1 24
12 Chippa United 20 6 6 8 22 26 9 3 3 3 9 10 11 3 3 5 13 16 -4 24
13 Stellenbosch 20 5 8 7 22 27 10 3 3 4 14 14 10 2 5 3 8 13 -5 23
14 Moroka Swallows 20 5 6 9 16 23 10 5 2 3 14 10 10 0 4 6 2 13 -7 21
15 Maritzburg United 20 5 6 9 14 26 10 3 3 4 10 15 10 2 3 5 4 11 -12 21
16 Tshakhuma 21 3 9 9 16 23 10 2 5 3 7 9 11 1 4 6 9 14 -7 18