SuperSport United and Golden Arrows will lock horns for their 45th league meeting.
Peter Mokaba Stadium will host two teams who came from behind this past weekend to record league wins.
Arrows managed a 3-2 victory over Polokwane City on Saturday to move into the top four, while SuperSport United’s 2-1 over Stellenbosch FC pushed them into second spot on the DStv Premiership standings after four matches played.
SuperSport United has already managed 10 points from four games while Golden Arrows sit on seven points after four games in the league.
Matsatsantsa will go into this encounter unbeaten this season having won three of their four games and getting one draw. (W3 D1).
For Golden Arrows they have now won two games, drawn one and lost one in their campaign (W2 D1 L1).
The previous league encounter between the two teams ended 2-1 in favour of SuperSport United on 5 March 2023 at Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium. Zakhele Lepasa scored a brace in the last game for SuperSport while Knox Mutizwa scored Arrows’ only goal which was from the penalty spot.
The last clean sheet in this fixture came in the 2020-2021 campaign in Golden Arrows’ 1-0 victory over SuperSport at Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium. Nduduzo Sibiya secured the three points for Arrows in the 22nd minute.
SuperSport United has scored 5 goals against Arrows in a single game on three occasions. They managed a 5-1 win over Arrows in the 2000/01 season; they repeated that in the 2006/07 season, they then beat Arrows 5-2 in the 2016/17 campaign
SuperSport United’s biggest victory over Golden Arrows was 5-1 in the 2000/01 season and in the 2006/07 season.
For Golden Arrows their biggest win came in their 4-2 triumph over SuperSport United in the 2010-11 season.
The most goals scored in a game in this particular fixture is 7 which came in the 2016-17 season with Matsatsantsa beating Abafana Bes’thende 5-2 at Lucas Masterpieces Moripe stadium.
Mabuthi Khenyeza and Knox Mutizwa have both scored the most goals in this fixture with 5 goals each, while Kingston Nkhatha managed to get 4 goals.
Khenyeza is now the co-coach for Golden Arrows while the latter is still part of the team and could potentially get a 6th goal against SuperSport.
There have been three own goals scored in this fixture, the latest coming in the 2019/20 season when Luke Fleurs scored an own goal to hand Golden Arrows a 1-0 win over SuperSport United.
In this fixture there have been four goals which have come from the penalty spot. Nduduzo Sibiya and Jamie Webber scored the last goals from the spot as they both managed to score in a 3-2 game in the 2021/22 season which Golden Arrows won at home.
Last season when the teams met the home team won 2-1 on each occasion.
The last seven games in this fixture have produced a winner, with the home team winning each of the last four. The last away win in this fixture was Arrows 1-0 triumph in the 2020-21 season, since then they have lost their last two league games away against SuperSport United.
Golden Arrows are on a run of having scored at least one goal in each of their last seven league games against SuperSport United, they have kept two clean-sheets in this run.
The last draw in this game was a 0-0 stalemate in the 2019/20 season with SuperSport as hosts it was the last time that SuperSport had managed to keep a clean-sheet in this fixture.
Of the previous 44 league clashes between the teams SuperSport United have 21 wins Arrows have 14 wins, there have been 7 draws.
SuperSport United’s next goal in this fixture will be there 70th in league games against Arrows, while Arrows have scored 50 goals in league games against SuperSport United.
In the last four league games between the teams both teams have scored.
In the last four league games between the teams the winning team has scored at least two goals, last season both games between the teams ended 2-1 to the victor, while in 2021-22 the corresponding fixture ended 3-1 to SuperSport and the other game ended 3-2 in favour of Golden Arrows.
SuperSport are looking for a third successive home league win over Golden Arrows.
Gavin Hunt in both stints at SuperSport coach has faced Arrows in the league 14 times his record against them reads W7 D3 L4.
Head to head League Games
P W D L GF GA GD
SuperSport United 44 21 7 14 69 50 19
Golden Arrows 44 14 7 21 50 69 -19
SuperSport United
SuperSport United moved into 2nd position on the DStv Premiership log standings this weekend after coming from behind to beat Stellenbosch FC at Danie Craven Stadium.
Matsatsantsa made it back-to-back wins in the league as they closed the gap to within five points of local rivals Sundowns in second place with a game in hand. Victory will see them narrow the gap to two points before Sundowns are next in league action on Wednesday.
The game against Golden Arrows on Tuesday evening will be United’s third home game this season, they recently beat Richards Bay at home in the opening game of the new season and also beat Cape Town City 1-0 at home.
SuperSport United are yet to concede a goal at home this season keeping clean-sheets in their 2-0 win against Richards Bay and 1-0 win over Cape Town City.
SuperSport United are one of two teams yet to be beaten this season - unbeaten in four league games (W3 D1).
Victory for SuperSport United takes them to 10 points for the season, last season it took them seven games to get to 10 points, they reached 11 after 7 games.
SuperSport were winless in their first four league games last season (D2 L2), they won their fifth against Richards Bay away from home and then won their next two games after that both 2-1 home and away against Sundowns and Maritzburg United.
So far this season SuperSport United have taken the third most number of shots (45 - excluding blocks). Only Mamelodi Sundowns (60) and TS Galaxy (48) have taken more.
SuperSport United this season have made the second most successful crosses from open play with 18 crosses made, however they have only 1 headed shot on target.
They are the second team this season with most duels won (294), only Chippa United (299) has more. They also lead when it comes to aerial duels won (140).
When it comes to the most number of clean sheets this season, SuperSport is one of five teams alongside Chippa United, Mamelodi Sundowns, AmaZulu and TS Galaxy who lead the way with three clean-sheets.
They are one of two teams to have conceded the least amount of goals so far this season, which is once, alongside TS Galaxy.
So far this season SuperSport are the fifth highest ranked when it comes to tackles won as they have won 47 tackles.
They are one of four teams to have hit the woodwork with a total of three attempts against the frame of the goal this season alongside Mamelodi Sundowns, TS Galaxy, Polokwane City and Cape Town Spurs.
They are ranked the third highest team with interceptions made with a total of 61.
SuperSport United are the fourth team with the highest number of fouls conceded, a total of 62.
Etiosa Ighodaro who is currently on two goals this season could potentially become the second player with three league goals this season should he score in the encounter with Golden Arrows.
Golden Arrows
Abafana Bes’thende come into this match after a 3-2 win over Polokwane City at the Mpumalanga Stadium over the weekend.
They have managed to get seven points from their opening four games, winning two, losing one and playing to a draw in another (W2 D1 L1).
In the 2022-23 campaign, Golden Arrows were also on the road in their fifth fixture playing away from home they beat AmaZulu 1-0. They began the season winless in their opening four league games (D2 L2) in 2022-23.
Last season Arrows required 8 games to reach double figures they can get to 10 points in five games with a win against SuperSport.
Golden Arrows’ last trip on the road this season saw them suffer a 4-0 defeat from Mamelodi Sundowns, but they have managed to get a win away from home this season against Richards Bay a 2-1 triumph.
No player from Golden Arrows has scored more than one goal this season but there has been a total of six players who have scored for them this campaign, with Ryan Moon, Siyanda Mthanti, Olwethu Ncube, Lungelo Nguse, Themba Mantshiyane and Nduduzo Sibiya all on the score sheet.
So far this season Golden Arrows has made the third least amount of successful passes (918)
They are the team with the third highest number of shots on target (19) this season, only their opponents SuperSport United as well as log leaders Mamelodi Sundowns have more.
Golden Arrows attempted the second least number of dribbles so far this season with a total of 50 alongside Cape Town Spurs.