Richards Bay - Chippa United: Premier League dungeon teams scrapping for points and triumph. Here are all the available data and tables before the match!
- Richards Bay have the fewest scored goals (20) in Premier League
- Chippa United have scored at least twice as many goals away as Richards Bay have scored home.
Richards Bay are fighting like crazy to avoid relegation and desperately need points in this fixture. Chippa are struggling to avoid relegation.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Chippa United, who are travelling more than 1000 kilometers to play this game.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Richards Bay and Chippa United.
Richards Bay form and stats
Richards Bay's results here at King Goodwill Zwelithini Stadium in the Premier League have been very modest with 3 victories, 4 draws and 7 defeats. Richards Bay are slowly digging their own grave here at King Goodwill Zwelithini Stadium with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in seven attempts.
The Richards Bay followers got no joy from their last match, also played here at King Goodwill Zwelithini Stadium: A 2-3 defeat against Chippa United (placed 15th). A disaster for the home team in their last match (vs Chippa United) as a comfortable lead 2-0 was completely ruined into a loss 2-3.
A defeat was the result before that one, 0-1 away at Mamelodi Sundowns.It should be taken into account that a glance at the 28 latest league fixtures reveals that 21 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Richards here at King Goodwill Zwelithini Stadium in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (7 from 14 games). From these home matches, Richards Bay have conceded only 13 goals. Richards Bay has at home met teams with this table position (low), four times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 4 of 4 times.
Chippa United form and stats
Playing away, Chippa United have won 4 games, drawn 4 and suffered 6 defeats in the Premier League this season.
Two travels in a row for Chippa, whose manager Seema could celebrate last time after the win against Richards Bay. Yippee; their first three points in the league after eight rounds not winning. An amazing comeback from Chippa United last time out, trailing 0-2 before rallying an inspired fight which eventually led to Mqokozo scoring the winning goal in the 83rd minute.
A 0-1 loss hosting Kaizer Chiefs before that.Chippa United are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 4 wins, 8 draws and 7 defeats. From a total of 19 matches.
The visiting Chippa have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 18 goals from 14 games. In the opposite end, Chippa United have conceded 22 goals in their away games. When Chippa United is visiting a side on the bottom half, 3 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against TS Galaxy, Maritzburg United, Chippa United, Marumo Gallants FC and AmaZulu.
Head 2 Head
The latest past scoreline involving both these teams is the Richards Bay - Chippa United 2-3 played earlier this season. Last three meetings with these squads: Richards won zero, Chippa United were winners in two and we saw one draw. three games with more than 2,5 goals, zero matches with two goals or less. One of the players to grab the headlines has been Ntsundwana with 3 goals scored against Chippa United in these 3 meetings.
Top Goalscorers
  E. Ighodaro 10 goals |  S. Ntsundwana 4 goals | S. Barns 4 goals |
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 28 | 14 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 14 | 28 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 12 | 7 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 20 | 7 | 1 | Scored | S | 4 | 18 | 29 |
| 28 | 13 | 1 | Conceded | C | 6 | 22 | 40 |
| 86% | 79% | 25% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 96% |
| 46% | 36% | 25% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 93% | 75% |
| 18% | 14% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 57% | 43% |
| 11% | 7% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 21% | 18% |
| 7% | 7% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 11% |
| 25% | 21% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 86% | 64% |
| 39% | 43% | 75% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 7% | 18% |
| 50% | 57% | 75% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 7% | 21% |
| 4 | 4.7 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 |
| 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.3 | 4.5 | 3.8 |
| 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.7 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6.6 | 7.6 | 10.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4.3 | 4 | 5.4 |
| 2.4 | 2.8 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.9 |
| 31% | 19% | 10% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 80% | 72% | 54% |
| 8.6 | 9.2 | 5.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.3 | 9.3 | 8.8 |
| 3.7 | 4.2 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 2.9 | 3.1 |
- Chippa United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Chippa United have scored at least twice as many goals away as Richards Bay have scored home.
- Chippa United haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Richards Bay have the fewest scored goals (20) in Premier League
- Richards Bay have the fewest scored goals (7) at home in Premier League
- Richards Bay have the fewest scored goals in the first half (9) in Premier League
- Richards Bay is in the worst form (0-1-5)
| 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 | 28 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 49 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 4 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 23 | 8 | 37 | 66 |
| 2 | Orlando Pirates | 28 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 35 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 15 | 50 |
| 3 | SuperSport United | 28 | 13 | 9 | 6 | 33 | 21 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 22 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 48 |
| 4 | Kaizer Chiefs | 28 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 32 | 31 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 1 | 44 |
| 5 | Cape Town City | 28 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 31 | 30 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 1 | 39 |
| 6 | Stellenbosch | 28 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 37 | 36 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 19 | 1 | 37 |
| 7 | Sekhukhune United | 28 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 22 | 26 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 17 | -4 | 36 |
| 8 | Real Kings | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 33 | 42 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 29 | -9 | 34 |
| 9 | Golden Arrows | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 31 | 40 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 23 | -9 | 34 |
| 10 | Moroka Swallows | 28 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 23 | 33 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 18 | -10 | 34 |
| 11 | AmaZulu | 28 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 29 | 28 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 14 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 33 |
| 12 | TS Galaxy | 28 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 23 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 32 |
| 13 | Richards Bay | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 28 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 15 | -8 | 32 |
| 14 | Marumo Gallants FC | 28 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 27 | 30 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 19 | -3 | 29 |
| 15 | Chippa United | 28 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 29 | 40 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 22 | -11 | 29 |
| 16 | Maritzburg United | 28 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 39 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 23 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 16 | -17 | 26 |
