Premier Soccer League duel: Close contest expected between Highlanders and Dynamos

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Competition: Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League
Date: Sun 16.June
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Barbourfields Stadium (32000 seats)

Highlanders hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 14 points and a 13th position in the Premier Soccer League table. Visiting Dynamos holds 12th place with 15 pts.

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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Highlanders form and stats

Highlanders, who have the fewest scored goals (6) in Premier Soccer League, have played 6 games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-3-1 (wins-draws-losses). The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Barbourfields Stadium.

Highlanders's last game was hosting Dynamos and winning 1-0. Prior to that, an away loss at Yadah.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Highlanders have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won 2 Drawn 2 Lost 0.

Highlanders have scored 3 goals here in 6 matches, a depressing statistic. As for guarding their own goal, Highlanders have only let in 1 goal at home.

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Dynamos form and stats

3 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Dynamos playing as the away team this season.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Dynamos, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 0-1 versus Highlanders. Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Manica.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found three similar matches played by Dynamos in our archives, and the results are: 1 win for Dynamos, 0 draws and 2 defeats.

The visitors have scored 5 goals from 7 away games, an average of less than one per game. Dynamos are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 6 times in 7 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Highlanders - Dynamos 1-0 earlier this season. As for the last six games between these two teams, there's 4 Highlanders victories, 1 draw and 1 Dynamos win. 2 of these games ended with three goals or more, 4 matches with two goals or less.

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Highlanders Dynamos
Total Home Home vs mid Statistic Away vs low Away Total
12 6 2 Played 4 7 12
3 2 0 Won 2 3 4
5 3 1 Drew 1 1 3
4 1 1 Lost 1 3 5
6 3 0 Scored 4 5 7
9 1 1 Conceded 3 6 9
67% 50% 50% Over 0.5 100% 100% 83%
33% 17% 0% Over 1.5 75% 57% 42%
17% 0% 0% Over 2.5 0% 0% 8%
8% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
17% 0% 0% BTTS 25% 14% 17%
58% 83% 50% Clean Sheets 50% 43% 50%
58% 67% 100% Failed To Score 25% 43% 50%
 
6.3 6.2 7 Corners For (avg) 5.5 3 4.6
2.4 0.8 0 Corners Against (avg) 4.5 4.8 3.7
1.1 1 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 2 1.8 1.1
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 0 0
Key stats this season:
  • Dynamos have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Dynamos haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Highlanders have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Highlanders have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.

Highlanders
13-04-19 PSL Harare City 3 - 1 Highlanders
22-04-19 PSL Highlanders 0 - 1 Triangle United
27-04-19 PSL Mushowani Stars 0 - 0 Highlanders
05-05-19 PSL Highlanders 0 - 0 Hwange
11-05-19 PSL Chicken Inn 3 - 0 Highlanders
19-05-19 PSL Highlanders 0 - 0 Herentals
26-05-19 PSL TelOne 0 - 1 Highlanders
02-06-19 PSL Highlanders 2 - 0 Kariba
08-06-19 PSL Yadah 1 - 0 Highlanders
16-06-19 PSL Highlanders 1 - 0 Dynamos
Dynamos
13-04-19 PSL Chicken Inn 2 - 0 Dynamos
22-04-19 PSL Dynamos 0 - 1 Herentals
28-04-19 PSL TelOne 1 - 1 Dynamos
05-05-19 PSL Dynamos 1 - 0 Kariba
12-05-19 PSL Yadah 0 - 1 Dynamos
18-05-19 PSL Bulawayo Chiefs 2 - 0 Dynamos
26-05-19 PSL Dynamos 0 - 0 Ngezi Platinum
01-06-19 PSL Platinum 0 - 1 Dynamos
09-06-19 PSL Dynamos 0 - 0 Manica
16-06-19 PSL Highlanders 1 - 0 Dynamos

  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 Platinum 12 7 3 2 15 5 5 3 1 1 6 2 7 4 2 1 9 3 10 24
2 Chicken Inn 12 7 2 3 19 6 6 3 1 2 9 4 6 4 1 1 10 2 13 23
3 CAPS United 12 7 2 3 23 15 7 4 1 2 15 11 5 3 1 1 8 4 8 23
4 Black Rhinos 12 6 4 2 14 11 7 4 2 1 8 6 5 2 2 1 6 5 3 22
5 Chapungu United 12 5 4 3 15 11 7 2 2 3 11 10 5 3 2 0 4 1 4 19
6 Kariba 12 5 3 4 8 10 5 3 2 0 5 2 7 2 1 4 3 8 -2 18
7 Manica 12 4 5 3 12 10 6 3 2 1 8 4 6 1 3 2 4 6 2 17
8 Ngezi Platinum 12 4 5 3 10 9 5 3 2 0 5 2 7 1 3 3 5 7 1 17
9 Harare City 12 5 1 6 15 15 7 3 1 3 10 8 5 2 0 3 5 7 0 16
10 Herentals 12 3 6 3 9 8 6 1 4 1 5 4 6 2 2 2 4 4 1 15
11 Triangle United 12 4 3 5 14 15 7 2 3 2 8 8 5 2 0 3 6 7 -1 15
12 Dynamos 12 4 3 5 7 9 5 1 2 2 2 3 7 3 1 3 5 6 -2 15
13 Highlanders 12 3 5 4 6 9 6 2 3 1 3 1 6 1 2 3 3 8 -3 14
14 Hwange 12 4 2 6 9 15 6 3 0 3 6 7 6 1 2 3 3 8 -6 14
15 TelOne 12 2 6 4 8 11 5 1 1 3 2 5 7 1 5 1 6 6 -3 12
16 Yadah 12 3 3 6 10 17 5 1 1 3 1 4 7 2 2 3 9 13 -7 12
17 Mushowani Stars 12 2 3 7 12 17 7 2 3 2 7 7 5 0 0 5 5 10 -5 9
18 Bulawayo Chiefs 12 2 2 8 10 23 6 1 0 5 6 11 6 1 2 3 4 12 -13 8