Richards Bay 2-0 Polokwane City — Result, Statistics & Match Review — South Afrika - Premier League, 8 Feb 2025

📅08/02/2025 · 🕒21:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 0-0 2nd Score 1-0
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
34%
2.67
Draw
35%
2.7
Away
31%
2.79
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
64%
1.36
Over 2.5
36%
2.96
Both Teams to Score
Yes
45%
2.33
No
55%
1.53
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
38%
1.82
2-3 Goals
41%
1.8
4-5 Goals
14%
6.75
6+ Goals
7%
34.5
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
24%
1/2
5%
1/X
11%
X/1
6%
X/2
12%
X/X
18%
2/1
4%
2/2
14%
2/X
6%
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
34%
Home Win
34%
+0.0pp
35%
Draw
34%
+1.2pp
31%
Away Win
32%
-1.2pp
64%
Under 2.5
70%
-5.6pp
36%
Over 2.5
30%
+5.6pp
45%
BTTS Yes
39%
+6.4pp
55%
BTTS No
61%
-6.4pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Richards Bay EU Bookmakers 37%
Head to Head
AWAY Polokwane City EU Bookmakers 36%
-10% / -16% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations +5% / +14%
0.96/1.11 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 0.86/0.80
-14% / -25% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +1% / +31%
49% Ball Possession 51%
9 Total Shots 10
4 Shots on Target 4
4 Corners 5
317 · 75% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 330 · 77%
16.6 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 17.7
23.6 Crosses 19.0
1.9 Yellow Cards 1.5
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Richards Bay
1W-1D-1L
AWAY Polokwane City
1.00 Avg Goals (FT) 1.00
1.00 xG 0.97
48% Ball Possession 52%
16 Total Shots 11
5 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 5
252 Passes 278
71% Pass Accuracy 72%
18 Box Touches 19
20 Crosses 26
1 Yellow Cards 1
08.05.2024 Polokwane City Polokwane City 0-0 HT 0-0 Richards Bay Richards Bay GAFPSL
24.02.2024 Richards Bay Richards Bay 3-2 HT 2-1 Polokwane City Polokwane City GAF8K
04.10.2023 Richards Bay Richards Bay 0-1 HT 0-1 Polokwane City Polokwane City GAFPSL
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Richards Bay
2-0
AWAY Polokwane City
0.78 xG 0.57
44% Ball Possession 56%
13 Total Shots 9
4 Shots on Target 2
8 Corners 4
238 Passes 335
74% Pass Accuracy 79%
18 Box Touches 11
24 Crosses 24
2 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH Richards Bay vs Polokwane City
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Richards Bay beat Polokwane City 2-0. The game was level at 0-0 at the break, so the decisive goals came after it.

We called this one close before kick-off — 34% / 35% / 31% — and on the day Richards Bay made the difference. The goals side of the card held up too — under 2.5 goals (64%), no to both teams scoring (55%) came in.

On the day, Richards Bay had 44% of the ball to Polokwane City's 56%, shots finished 13-9, expected goals 0.78 to 0.57.

For context: across their last 3 meetings in our records, honours were even at 1 apiece, 1 drawn. Those games averaged 1.00 goals for Richards Bay and 1.00 for Polokwane City.

What was the final score of Richards Bay vs Polokwane City?

Richards Bay 2-0 Polokwane City in the South Afrika - Premier League on 08/02/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Richards Bay vs Polokwane City?

Before kick-off our model rated a draw the most likely single outcome at about 35%, with the full match-result split Richards Bay 34%, draw 35%, Polokwane City 31%. The final score 2-0 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Under 2.5, BTTS No — while Match Result (Draw) went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Draw) ✓ Under 2.5 ✓ BTTS No
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