📏 Form Guide

Cape Town City

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Cape Town City go into this fixture after a 1-1 Premier Division drawn result versus Golden Arrows.

In that match, Cape Town City had 59% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 7 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Cape Town City was Darwin González (38'). On the other side, Golden Arrows had 5 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

It has been seldom in recent games that Cape Town City have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Cape Town City have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 8 goals in the process. While that may be of interest, time will tell whether that trend will be maintained in this next match or not.

Orlando Pirates

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Orlando Pirates will go into the match after a 0-4 Premier Division win with the eclipse of Royal AM in their most recent outing.

In that match, Orlando Pirates managed 55% possession and 13 shots on goal with 8 on target. At the other end, Royal AM had 7 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.

Proving their involvement in action-packed encounters, we’ve had goals 23 times in the previous six matches in which Orlando Pirates have taken to the field, yielding a mean average of 3.83 goals each fixture. Opposition teams have hit 6 of those goals.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head clashes going back to 09/02/2021 shows that Cape Town City have won 1 of these and Orlando Pirates 3, with the number of draws standing at 2.

An aggregate of 12 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 of them from Blue and Gold Army and 8 netted by Buccaneers, The Bucs. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The previous league encounter between these clubs was Premier Division match day 4 on 29/08/2023 when it finished Orlando Pirates 2-0 Cape Town City.

That time, Orlando Pirates managed 50% possession and 14 shots on goal with 6 of them on target.

On the other side, Cape Town City got 7 shots on goal with 3 on target.

🗞️ Team News: Cape Town City

The Cape Town City manager Benni McCarthy will be grateful to have no fitness worries at all before this match owing to a completely injury-free group available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Orlando Pirates

Thanks to a completely injury-free group available to select from, the Orlando Pirates manager Rhulani Mokwena does not have any fitness concerns whatsoever before this clash.

🔮 Prediction

Here is a game where Cape Town City may not find it easy to hit the back of the net against this Orlando Pirates lineup who should be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We’re going for a narrow 0-1 advantage for Orlando Pirates when the referee blows for full-time.

Let’s see.

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Victor Martins, 12:09 01/05/2024