The SuperSport United & Richards Bay bosses Hunt and Manousakis are both dreading and eagerly anticipating this crucial match in the upper part of the Premier League table.
- SuperSport United have not yet lost a game at home.
- Richards Bay have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Premier League
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.
SuperSport United form and stats
15 points is a decent return from 7 Premier League games here at Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium for SuperSport United. The data says 4 wins, 3 draws and 0 losses.
The fans are hoping that SuperSport will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the game against Mamelodi Sundowns (placed 1st).
Heartbreak before that as SuperSport United lost 1-2 at Golden Arrows's place.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does SuperSport United 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 7 wins, 7 draws and 2 defeats.
SuperSport United have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium with 11 goals in 7 league matches. SuperSport are not conceding a lot of goals here at Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 7 matches.
Richards Bay form and stats
Richards Bay's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Richards Bay collect 17 points from their 8 away matches in the Premier League. 5 victories and 2 draws have created these points (and only 1 defeat).
It's the second away game in a row for Richards Bay, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus Tshakhuma (placed 16th) last time out.
Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus Mamelodi Sundowns.Richards Bay are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.
Low on goals? 9 of this team's most recent 10 league fixtures have seen zero, one or two goals.
Richards Bay are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 11 away goals from 8 games (in the league). They concede less than a goal on average per away game (5 so far).
Head 2 Head
Richards Bay - SuperSport 0-1 was the story when these participants previously did battle, some time ago this season.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Grobler 7 goals |  S. Ntsundwana 3 goals |  T. Ditlhokwe 2 goals |
SuperSport United missing players
Richards Bay missing players
| SuperSport United | Richards Bay | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 8 | 16 |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 20 | 11 | 5 | Scored | S | 0 | 11 | 14 |
| 15 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 94% | 86% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 75% |
| 69% | 71% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 31% |
| 44% | 43% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 12% | 29% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 12% | 6% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 12% | 6% |
| 56% | 71% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 12% |
| 31% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 62% | 69% |
| 19% | 14% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 25% | 44% |
| 5.1 | 5.1 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 3.5 | 3.7 |
| 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4.5 | 4.3 |
| 1.7 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8.9 | 9.6 | 12 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 3.5 | 3.9 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
| 37% | 41% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| 6.7 | 7.3 | 10 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 7.4 | 7.8 |
| 2.6 | 2.9 | 6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
- Richards Bay have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Richards Bay have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
- Richards Bay have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in Premier League
- Richards Bay have the most points (17) away in Premier League
- SuperSport United have not yet lost a game at home.
- SuperSport United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded 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 | Mamelodi Sundowns | 17 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 27 | 43 |
| 2 | Richards Bay | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 29 |
| 3 | SuperSport United | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 27 |
| 4 | Sekhukhune United | 17 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 24 |
| 5 | Kaizer Chiefs | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -2 | 24 |
| 6 | Cape Town City | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 23 |
| 7 | Orlando Pirates | 16 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| 8 | AmaZulu | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 21 |
| 9 | Chippa United | 17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 23 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 15 | -4 | 20 |
| 10 | Real Kings | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -5 | 20 |
| 11 | TS Galaxy | 17 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 19 |
| 12 | Golden Arrows | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | -3 | 19 |
| 13 | Stellenbosch | 17 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 17 |
| 14 | Moroka Swallows | 17 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 | -6 | 17 |
| 15 | Maritzburg United | 16 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -11 | 17 |
| 16 | Tshakhuma | 17 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 10 | -6 | 14 |
