Cape Town City will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 6 points behind Moroka Swallows.
- Cape Town City has the most scored goals (27) in Premier League
- Moroka Swallows have not yet lost a game.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1300 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Cape Town City form and stats
The story so far in the Premier League for Cape Town City, who have the most scored goals (27) in Premier League, at their home stadium (Cape Town Stadium) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
A defeat was the result before that one, 0-2 away at Orlando Pirates.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Cape have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found three matches with the results: Won one, drawn zero and lost two.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (15 in 7 games), Cape's attacking play is working. Cape Town City have conceded 13 from these games.
Moroka Swallows form and stats
The visitors are W3-D5-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Premier League. Things are running smoothly for Swallows who hasn't tasted defeat in their last 22 matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against University of Pretoria. Swallows are enjoying a nice run from their away games now, having played eleven in a row without losing.
A home win before that, celebrating 1-0 vs Cape Umoya United.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Moroka Swallows in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Swallows, three draws and two defeats.
Swallows have scored 10 goals on their travels this season, from 8 away games in the league. It's not easy to score on Swallows as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Moroka Swallows - Cape 3-2 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's four Cape victories, one draw and three Moroka Swallows wins. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, one match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Gamildien 9 goals |  M. Mdantsane 8 goals | A. Ralani 5 goals |
Cape Town City missing players
Moroka Swallows missing players
| Cape Town City | Moroka Swallows | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 7 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 8 | 15 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | 15 | 6 | Scored | S | 1 | 10 | 18 |
| 25 | 13 | 6 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 87% |
| 94% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 88% | 67% |
| 56% | 71% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 12% | 13% |
| 38% | 57% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 25% | 43% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 7% |
| 75% | 86% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 75% | 53% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 25% | 47% |
| 12% | 14% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 13% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.3 | 1.5 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.3 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6.6 | 8.2 | 10.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 1 | 5.8 | 5.8 |
| 3.4 | 4.8 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 3.7 | 3.2 |
| 51% | 53% | 55% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 32% | 41% |
- All of Cape Town City's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cape Town City has the most conceded goals (25) in Premier League
- Cape Town City has the most conceded goals in the first half (15) in Premier League
- Cape Town City has the most matches over the total-line (8) in Premier League
- Cape Town City has the most scored goals (15) at home in Premier League
- Cape Town City has the most scored goals (27) in Premier League
- Cape Town City has the most scored goals in the first half (17) in Premier League
- Cape Town City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Cape Town City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cape Town City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Moroka Swallows have not yet lost a game.
- Moroka Swallows have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Moroka Swallows 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 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 24 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 17 | 33 |
| 2 | SuperSport United | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 31 |
| 3 | Moroka Swallows | 15 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 29 |
| 4 | Golden Arrows | 15 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 28 |
| 5 | Orlando Pirates | 17 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 28 |
| 6 | AmaZulu | 17 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 23 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 25 |
| 7 | Cape Town City | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 23 |
| 8 | Bloemfontein Celtic | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 14 | -2 | 18 |
| 9 | Kaizer Chiefs | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -3 | 18 |
| 10 | Baroka | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 10 | -5 | 17 |
| 11 | TS Galaxy | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 7 | -1 | 15 |
| 12 | Stellenbosch | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 15 |
| 13 | Chippa United | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 16 | -4 | 14 |
| 14 | Tshakhuma | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 20 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -12 | 12 |
| 15 | Maritzburg United | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -11 | 9 |
| 16 | Black Leopards | 14 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | -14 | 9 |