📏 Form Guide

AmaZulu

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AmaZulu will be looking to improve on their last outing here following a 2-0 Premier Division loss in their previous game against TS Galaxy.

In that match, AmaZulu managed 51% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For their opponents, TS Galaxy got 8 shots on goal with 2 on target.

It has not been often in recent times that AmaZulu have shown defensive steel. The facts show that AmaZulu have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 10 goals during that time.

Polokwane City

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Polokwane City head into the game after a 1-0 Premier Division win vs Chippa United in their last match.

In that game, Polokwane City managed 45% possession and 5 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. For their opponents, Chippa United got 3 attempts on goal with 0 on target.

A series of dependable displays by the Polokwane City defensive players has seen their ‘goals against’ tally standing at 3 from their last 6 fixtures combined. During the same period, their own forwards have managed to score 4. While that may be of interest, time will tell whether that pattern will be replicated here in this game or not.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 27/01/2018 shows that AmaZulu have won 1 of these & Polokwane City 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

An aggregate of 7 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 3 from Usuthu and 4 created by Polokwane. The average goals per game has been 1.17.

The previous league game featuring these sides was Premier Division match day 6 on 25/09/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Polokwane City 0-0 AmaZulu.

On that occasion, Polokwane City had 48% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

AmaZulu got 15 shots at goal with 4 on target.

📋 Team News: AmaZulu

The AmaZulu boss Jozef Vukušič will be happy not to have any fitness concerns whatsoever before this game owing to a fully injury-free group to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Polokwane City

Owing to a fully healthy squad ready to go, the Polokwane City manager Bernard Molekwa doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of before this match.

💡 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Polokwane City might have a difficult job to see themselves scoring against this AmaZulu outfit who should score at least once to gain the upper hand.

With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a good tussle with a 1-0 victory for AmaZulu at the end of this game.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 17:10 02/04/2024