Maritzburg United vs Bidvest Wits Prediction & Betting Tips

The Premier Division meeting at Harry Gwala Stadium on Monday will see home side Maritzburg United ready themselves for the challenge from opponents Bidvest Wits.

All Maritzburg United v Bidvest Wits match predictions, user poll and stats are shown below - plus the latest betting odds.

📏 Form Guide

Maritzburg United WWWWLD

Maritzburg United head into this game after a 2-2 Premier Division draw vs Mamelodi Sundowns.

Maritzburg United have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target in each and every one of their last 6 matches.

They have managed to rack up 11 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 6.

Ahead of this clash, Maritzburg United are undefeated in their last 7 league matches at home.

Bidvest Wits DWDDDW 📈

Bidvest Wits will go into this game after a 2-1 Premier Division win to beat AmaZulu in their previous match.

For 5 of the prior six clashes involving Bidvest Wits, a notably low volume of goals have gone in between them and their opposition. The overall average number of goals per game within that period comes to a meagre 1, with the number of goals averaged by The Clever Boys equalling 0.67. We will just have to see whether or not that trend will be sustained in this game.

Their past results show that Bidvest Wits:

• have not beaten Maritzburg United when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 matches in the league.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 away league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head meetings dating back to 07/05/2017 shows us that Maritzburg United have won 1 of them & Bidvest Wits 3, with the number of drawn games being 2.

An aggregate of 6 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 2 for Maritzburg and 4 for The Clever Boys. That’s an average goals per game figure of 1.

ℹ️ Team News: Maritzburg United

Maritzburg United boss Eric Tinkler has no fitness worries to speak of coming into this clash owing to a completely injury-free group to pick from.

🗞️ Team News: Bidvest Wits

Owing to a completely injury-free group to pick from, Bidvest Wits manager Gavin Hunt has zero fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash.

💡 Prediction

Looking at these two, we feel that Bidvest Wits and Maritzburg United may well both score at least one goal each although picking a clear a winner isn’t easy.

Shouldn’t be much in it, and there should be goals with a draw being quite a realistic outcome. Therefore, we predict a hard-fought contest, finishing with a score draw after 90 minutes.

Renata Leite, 23:07 21/08/2020