Polokwane City vs Cape Town City Live Stream, Predictions (May 17)

📏 Form Guide

Polokwane City

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Polokwane City will play in this match following on from a 1-1 Premier Division drawn game versus AmaZulu.

In that game, Polokwane City managed 47% possession and 14 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. At the other end, AmaZulu got 12 attempts at goal with 2 on target.

Fewer than three goals per game were scored during 5 of the past 6 fixtures where Polokwane City have been involved. Regarding the goal split in that period, opposing sides scored a total of 8 while Polokwane City managed a tally of 5.

Cape Town City

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Since suffering a loss in their previous game against Mamelodi Sundowns in Premier Division competition, Cape Town City will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Cape Town City managed 33% possession and 4 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target. Mamelodi Sundowns had 15 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Tashreeq Matthews (34') and Iqraam Rayners (77') scored for Mamelodi Sundowns.

A tendency of at least one team not scoring a goal in games featuring Cape Town City has become noticeable of late. Looking at their last six meetings shows that this has happened 5 times. In these clashes, opposing sides have managed a goal aggregate of 6 while Cape Town City have scored 1. We will have to find out if that trend will be continued on into this next match.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head-to-head clashes going back to 15/03/2019 shows that Polokwane City have won 1 of these & Cape Town City 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 2.

A combined total of 19 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 8 from Polokwane and 11 being from Blue and Gold Army. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.17.

The previous league game featuring the two was Premier Division match day 6 on 27/11/2024 which ended up with the score at Cape Town City 1-0 Polokwane City.

In that match, Cape Town City managed 63% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer was Thamsanqa Mkhize (56').

Polokwane City had 11 attempts at goal with 1 of them on target.

📋 Team News: Polokwane City

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just the sole fitness concern for the Polokwane City manager Bernard Molekwa to be concerned about due to a largely intact set of players. Thabang Matuludi (Knee injury) misses out.

📰 Team News: Cape Town City

Thanks to a largely available group, there is just the lone fitness worry for the Cape Town City manager Benni McCarthy to be concerned about. Carlinhos (Knee injury) misses out for this game.

✨ Prediction

We’re of the view that Cape Town City should have enough to breach the defence of this Polokwane City lineup, but it realistically won’t be as many as they will have scored against them.

Our tip is for a very close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Polokwane City at the end of this one. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

Peter Guest, 14:05 13/05/2025