Stellenbosch vs Cape Town City Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Stellenbosch

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Stellenbosch will be hoping for a better result after the 4-1 Premier Division loss in their previous game against Orlando Pirates.

Innocent Maela (22') and Kermit Erasmus (59') scored for Orlando Pirates.

It’s not been often in recent games where Stellenbosch have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Stellenbosch have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 8 goals on the way. Having said that, we’ll just have to find out whether such a trend will be maintained in this match or not.

Cape Town City

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Cape Town City head into the game after a 1-0 Premier Division win with the downing of TS Galaxy in their last outing.

In that game, Cape Town City managed 56% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 5 on target. On the other side, TS Galaxy got 6 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target.

The stats don’t lie, and Cape Town City have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 6 goals in total. Defensively, Cape Town City have seen their frailties exposed.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head-to-head meetings going back to 20/08/2020 shows us that Stellenbosch have won 4 of these & Cape Town City 1, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

In all, 13 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 9 of them for Stellenbosch and 4 for Blue and Gold Army. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.17.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was Premier Division match day 4 on 20/08/2022 when the final score was Cape Town City 1-1 Stellenbosch.

📰 Team News: Stellenbosch

Juan Carlos Ortíz (Knee Injury) and Keegan Pool (Unknown Injury) won’t be available for Stellenbosch boss Steve Barker.

📰 Team News: Cape Town City

Owing to an otherwise available group of players, there’s only the one fitness worry for the Cape Town City boss Benni McCarthy to be concerned with. Idumba Fasika (Knee Injury) misses out for this game.

💭 Prediction

We envisage that Cape Town City and Stellenbosch should both be able to find the back of the net here although it’s difficult to select a clear winner.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes, with a good chance of a draw. That’s why we have predicted a very close game with a 1-1 scoreline at the end of the 90.

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Peter Guest, 00:52 23/01/2023