Richards Bay greet Cape Town City with expectations of taking all three points. Will they? Check our in-depth preview!
- Richards Bay have the fewest conceded goals (3) in Premier League
- Cape Town City have scored at least twice as many goals away as Richards Bay have scored home.
These teams have little in common geographically as Cape Town City have to travel 1700 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
These are busy days for the team playing at home, as they played only four days ago in the Premier League. This match was also played here at King Goodwill Zwelithini Stadium. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Cape Town City have had more rest.
Richards Bay form and stats
1 victory, 3 draws and 1 defeat. That’s what Richards Bay have to build on here at King Goodwill Zwelithini Stadium in the Premier League. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 180 minutes without scoring a league goal. Mothwa (own goal) was the last player to find the net. Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Jamal Omar Salim Magoola not having conceded a league goal in 504 minutes.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Richards, who played 0-0 against Maritzburg United. That match was also played at this venue (King Goodwill Zwelithini Stadium).
A 0-0 draw away before that, with Orlando Pirates the opponent.This is expected to be a close game, with Richards Bay perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Richards Bay as a small favourite), we find 8 games. Richards Bay has won 3 of these, drawn 2 and lost 3.
It should be noted that a peek at the 11 latest league games reveals that 10 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).
Richards Bay has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: {1 goals} from 5 games. Defensively Richards Bay have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (1 in 5 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Cape Town City form and stats
1 win, 1 draw and 2 losses. That’s the product of Cape Town City playing as the away team in the Premier League this season.
Two away games in a row for Cape, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Petro de Luanda in the CAF Champions League.
The match before was the CAF Champions League-battle against Petro de Luanda, a home loss (0-3). As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Cape Town City in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Cape Town City, 3 draws and 8 defeats.
A bet on few goals? 6 league matches in a row with this side have had at most two goals.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Cape Town City have scored 5 goals in 4 league games away. Cape Town City have conceded 6 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. González Mendoza 3 goals | K. Mayo 3 goals |  S. Ntsundwana 1 goals |
Richards Bay missing players
Cape Town City missing players
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 4 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 64% | 40% | 25% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 78% |
| 18% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 67% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 22% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 11% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 11% |
| 9% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 75% | 44% |
| 73% | 80% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 44% |
| 55% | 80% | 75% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 5.2 | 4.6 |
| 4.4 | 3 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 4 | 5.3 |
| 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6.2 | 7.5 | 7.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7.5 | 10.4 |
| 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.8 | 3.8 |
| 26% | 10% | 10% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 45% | 24% |
| 7.8 | 5.8 | 5.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 7.8 | 8.2 |
| 2.8 | 1.5 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 3.2 |
- Cape Town City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Cape Town City have scored at least twice as many goals away as Richards Bay have scored home.
- Cape Town City have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Cape Town City haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Richards Bay have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Richards Bay have the fewest conceded goals (1) at home in Premier League
- Richards Bay have the fewest conceded goals (3) in Premier League
- Richards Bay have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Premier League
- Richards Bay have the most clean sheets (8) in Premier League
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | SuperSport United | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 2 | Mamelodi Sundowns | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 19 |
| 3 | Richards Bay | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 19 |
| 4 | Orlando Pirates | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 |
| 5 | Kaizer Chiefs | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 17 |
| 6 | Chippa United | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 17 |
| 7 | Stellenbosch | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 14 |
| 8 | Golden Arrows | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 13 |
| 9 | Royal AM | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 13 |
| 10 | AmaZulu | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 12 |
| 11 | TS Galaxy | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 11 |
| 12 | Cape Town City | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 10 |
| 13 | Sekhukhune United | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | -3 | 10 |
| 14 | Maritzburg United | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | -6 | 10 |
| 15 | Marumo Gallants FC | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 9 |
| 16 | Moroka Swallows | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | -6 | 9 |
