Highlands Park will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 14 points behind Mamelodi Sundowns.
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a Premier League game only three days ago.
Highlands Park form and stats
When playing at home in the Premier League, Highlands Park have managed 7 wins, 1 draw and suffered 4 defeats from 12 games.
The Highlands Park fans got no joy from their last match, a Nedbank Cup game also here at Makhulong Stadium: A 0-1 defeat against Mamelodi Sundowns (after extra-time) (placed 2nd). Preceding that match was a Premier League defeat to SuperSport United (0-2).
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Highlands Park as they are travelling to their away game against Chippa United in the Premier League. That match is four days after this one.
Highlands are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 17 goals in 12 games. Highlands have conceded 13 in these home matches.
Mamelodi Sundowns form and stats
Playing away, Mamelodi Sundowns have won 5 games, drawn 3 and suffered 2 defeats in the Premier League this season.
Mamelodi have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Denis Masinde Onyango. It's been 240 minutes since they last conceded in Premier League.
Mamelodi played 0-0 against Orlando Pirates in their previous match. A home win before that, celebrating 3-2 vs Bidvest Wits.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Premier League trip to Cape Town City.
Mamelodi are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 14 away goals from 10 games (in the league). Mamelodi Sundowns are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 9 times in 10 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Mamelodi Sundowns - Highlands 1-0. As for the last six games between these two teams, there's zero Highlands victories, two draws and four Mamelodi Sundowns wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  P. Shalulile 11 goals |  T. Zwane 9 goals | S. Vilakazi 5 goals |
Highlands Park missing players
Mamelodi Sundowns missing players
| Highlands Park | Mamelodi Sundowns | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 24 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 22 |
| 8 | 7 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 13 |
| 7 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 26 | 17 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 14 | 30 |
| 31 | 13 | 6 | Conceded | C | 5 | 9 | 15 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 90% | 86% |
| 79% | 83% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 70% | 64% |
| 38% | 33% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 50% | 41% |
| 21% | 17% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 10% | 9% |
| 8% | 17% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 10% | 5% |
| 50% | 42% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 60% | 45% |
| 29% | 42% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 30% | 45% |
| 29% | 17% | 67% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 23% |
| 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.7 | 4.7 | 5.7 |
| 4.9 | 5.2 | 3.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 4.7 | 4.7 |
| 2 | 2.2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.1 | 1.5 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 273 | 160 | 34 | Total Shots | T S | 33 | 107 | 292 |
| 90 | 52 | 8 | Shots on Target | S O | 10 | 33 | 92 |
| 29% | 33% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 42% | 33% |
- Highlands Park has the fewest matches under the total-line (7)
- Highlands Park haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Mamelodi Sundowns has the fewest conceded goals (15)
- Mamelodi Sundowns have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Mamelodi Sundowns have won significantly less corners away then at home.
| 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 | 22 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 40 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 23 | 48 |
| 2 | Mamelodi Sundowns | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 30 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 45 |
| 3 | Orlando Pirates | 24 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 35 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 41 |
| 4 | SuperSport United | 24 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 34 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 40 |
| 5 | Maritzburg United | 24 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 39 |
| 6 | Bidvest Wits | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 38 |
| 7 | Golden Arrows | 23 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 21 | 26 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 16 | -5 | 32 |
| 8 | Highlands Park | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 26 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -5 | 31 |
| 9 | Bloemfontein Celtic | 23 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 33 | 33 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 0 | 28 |
| 10 | Cape Town City | 23 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 30 | 32 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 22 | -2 | 27 |
| 11 | Stellenbosch | 24 | 7 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 19 | -9 | 27 |
| 12 | Chippa United | 24 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 23 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 17 | -8 | 26 |
| 13 | Baroka | 24 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 21 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | -6 | 23 |
| 14 | Polokwane City | 24 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 21 | 32 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 17 | -11 | 23 |
| 15 | AmaZulu | 24 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 27 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 12 | -13 | 23 |
| 16 | Black Leopards | 24 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 21 | 36 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 23 | -15 | 20 |