AFCON 2015: Head to head statistics: South Africa vs Ghana

Head to head
South Africa are unbeaten in three previous AFCON matches against the Black Stars, winning two and drawing one.

-Ghana have failed to beat South Africa in their 3 meetings in the AFCON, losing 2 and drawing 1 and are even yet to score a goal against the Bafana Bafana (1996, 2000, 2002)

-The Black stars have played against South Africa on 9 occasions in all competitions, winning 2, losing 5 and drawing 2                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Previous performance in the African Cup of Nations     

South Africa
-South Africa have won just one of their last 14 AFCON games (D7 L6)

-They have won 2, drawn 4 and lost 2 of their final group games                

-South Africa won the championship in 1996 on home soil beating Tunisia by two goals to nothing in the final.                                                    

-Bafana Bafana are looking to make it into the knockout round in consecutive AFCON tournaments for the first time since 2002

Ghana
-The Black Stars have lost just two of their last 13 AFCON group games (W9 D2)

-Ghana have won 13, lost 4 and drawn 2 of their final group games, but they are undefeated in their last 4, winning 3 and drawing 1

-The Black Stars have played in 19 AFCON tournaments and they have won the championship four times in 1963, 1965, 1978 and 1982.

-They last failed to make the knockout round in 2006, finishing no lower than 4th since then

Current form and team news
South Africa
-Bafana Bafana have kept only two clean sheets in those 14 matches

-The Bafana Bafana are rated 52 on the FIFA ranking.

-South Africa must win, while Ghana will only need a draw to go through, if Algeria draws against South Africa

-South Africa are without defender Thulani Hlatshwayo, who has not recovered from a concussion suffered in the 1-1 draw with Senegal.

-Bafana Bafana will give a late fitness test to defender Rivaldo Coetzee, who missed the last game because of a knee injury.

Ghana
- To play it safe Ghana need to beat South Africa to make the quarter final berth or draw with the expectation that Algeria South Africa game ends in a draw and this will put both Algeria and Ghana on four points, but Black Stars will go through with a better head to head.

-The Black Stars are ranked 37 on the current FIFA ranking

-Asamoah Gyan has scored in his last six appearances for Ghana and if he scores against South Africa he will be Ghana's all-time top scorer in the history of the AFCON.

-Gyan and Seidu Keita have scored 7 goals each in the Africa Cup of Nations and no player featuring in the ongoing AFCON has more.