Betting preview: Harare City vs Chapungu United should be interesting

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Competition: Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League
Date: Thu 29.August
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Rufaro Stadium (35000 seats)

Harare City and Chapungu United have both delivered a "par" performance so far, to use a golfing expression. Both hold mid-table positions in the Premier Soccer League.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Harare City form and stats

Overall Premier Soccer League stats at home this season for Harare City are 4-2-5 (wins-draw-losses).

The Harare City supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Chapungu United in Premier Soccer League and win 2-0. A strong away win before that one, visiting Highlanders and winning 1-0.

This is expected to be a close game, with Harare City perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Harare City as a small favourite), we find three games. Harare City has won 1 of these, drawn 0 and lost 2.

Harare City has scored 13 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. 11 goals have been conceded.

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Chapungu United form and stats

The visitors are W4-D3-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Premier Soccer League.

Two away games in a row for Chapungu United, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus Harare City in the Premier Soccer League. Before that, Chapungu United secured a home win against CAPS United with the score 4-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found four similar matches played by Chapungu United in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Chapungu United, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

The attacking power of Chapungu United when travelling is not overwhelming with 7 goals scored from 11 league matches away. Chapungu United are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 8 times in 11 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Harare City - Chapungu United 2-0 entered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last nine meetings: 4 - 3 - 2 (Harare City wins - draws - Chapungu United wins). As for goals, 1 match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 8 had two or less.

Harare City missing players

Chapungu United missing players

Harare City Chapungu United
Total Home Home vs mid Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
21 11 3 Played 3 11 21
7 4 1 Won 2 4 7
4 2 0 Drew 1 3 7
10 5 2 Lost 0 4 7
21 13 5 Scored 3 7 23
24 11 4 Conceded 1 8 21
90% 82% 100% Over 0.5 67% 82% 86%
71% 73% 100% Over 1.5 33% 36% 57%
43% 55% 100% Over 2.5 33% 18% 38%
10% 9% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 14%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 10%
48% 45% 67% BTTS 33% 27% 43%
29% 36% 33% Clean Sheets 67% 36% 29%
33% 36% 0% Failed To Score 33% 55% 43%
 
4.7 5.9 6 Corners For (avg) 5.7 4.4 4.1
3.9 2.9 3 Corners Against (avg) 4 5.1 4.8
1.6 1.1 1 Yellow Cards (avg) 1 1.4 1.4
0 0 0 Red Cards 1 1 1
Key stats this season:
  • Harare City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Harare City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Harare City have won significantly more corners at home than away.

Harare City
15-06-19 PSL Harare City 1 - 2 Herentals
07-07-19 PSL TelOne 1 - 1 Harare City
13-07-19 PSL Harare City 0 - 0 Kariba
20-07-19 PSL Yadah 1 - 1 Harare City
27-07-19 PSL Harare City 0 - 1 Dynamos
03-08-19 PSL Ngezi Platinum 2 - 0 Harare City
14-08-19 PSL Platinum 2 - 0 Harare City
17-08-19 PSL Harare City 1 - 2 Manica
25-08-19 PSL Highlanders 0 - 1 Harare City
29-08-19 PSL Harare City 2 - 0 Chapungu United
Chapungu United
15-06-19 PSL Chapungu United 1 - 2 Yadah
07-07-19 PSL Dynamos 1 - 0 Chapungu United
13-07-19 PSL Chapungu United 0 - 0 Ngezi Platinum
20-07-19 PSL Platinum 1 - 0 Chapungu United
27-07-19 PSL Chapungu United 1 - 1 Manica
07-08-19 PSL Highlanders 1 - 0 Chapungu United
10-08-19 PSL Bulawayo Chiefs 1 - 1 Chapungu United
17-08-19 PSL Black Rhinos 1 - 2 Chapungu United
24-08-19 PSL Chapungu United 4 - 2 CAPS United
29-08-19 PSL Harare City 2 - 0 Chapungu United

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 CAPS United 21 11 4 6 34 25 11 7 1 3 22 15 10 4 3 3 12 10 9 37
2 Platinum 20 10 6 4 21 10 9 6 2 1 10 2 11 4 4 3 11 8 11 36
3 Kariba 21 10 6 5 21 15 11 8 3 0 16 4 10 2 3 5 5 11 6 36
4 Chicken Inn 20 10 5 5 30 13 10 6 2 2 17 6 10 4 3 3 13 7 17 35
5 Triangle United 19 9 5 5 24 18 10 5 3 2 14 10 9 4 2 3 10 8 6 32
6 Dynamos 21 8 8 5 20 17 10 3 5 2 8 6 11 5 3 3 12 11 3 32
7 Black Rhinos 21 8 6 7 20 20 10 5 3 2 11 9 11 3 3 5 9 11 0 30
8 Ngezi Platinum 21 7 8 6 18 16 10 5 4 1 11 5 11 2 4 5 7 11 2 29
9 Chapungu United 21 7 7 7 23 21 10 3 4 3 16 13 11 4 3 4 7 8 2 28
10 Hwange 21 6 8 7 20 25 11 5 3 3 13 12 10 1 5 4 7 13 -5 26
11 Harare City 21 7 4 10 21 24 11 4 2 5 13 11 10 3 2 5 8 13 -3 25
12 Herentals 20 4 11 5 17 18 11 2 6 3 10 11 9 2 5 2 7 7 -1 23
13 Manica 20 5 8 7 18 20 9 3 3 3 9 8 11 2 5 4 9 12 -2 23
14 Highlanders 20 5 8 7 13 17 10 4 4 2 6 3 10 1 4 5 7 14 -4 23
15 Mushowani Stars 20 5 6 9 22 27 11 3 6 2 13 12 9 2 0 7 9 15 -5 21
16 TelOne 21 3 11 7 18 24 11 2 5 4 10 12 10 1 6 3 8 12 -6 20
17 Yadah 20 3 8 9 14 27 10 1 5 4 3 7 10 2 3 5 11 20 -13 17
18 Bulawayo Chiefs 20 4 5 11 15 32 9 3 1 5 9 12 11 1 4 6 6 20 -17 17