Fasten your seatbelt before the show! The main heroes are Macarthur and Central Coast Mariners, a win is the prize and 1 1/2 hours the playing time.
- Macarthur haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Central Coast Mariners have the most scored goals (24) in A-League
Macarthur and Central Coast Mariners should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Macarthur form and stats
3 victories, 0 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Macarthur have to build on here at Campbelltown Stadium in the A-League. Two home wins in a row for Macarthur bring valid hopes of a third.
A nice win for Macarthur last time playing, versus Newcastle Jets. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-0 with Dávila and Toure scoring for the victors. Noone (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.84/10. Noone hit five key passes.
A defeat was the result before that one, 0-4 away at Western Sydney Wanderers.One betting fact: This club have played 5 league games in a row with only one (or none) club scoring.
The Macarthur fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 7 in 5 matches. From these home matches, Macarthur have conceded only 4 goals.
Central Coast Mariners form and stats
Central Coast Mariners are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the A-League, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
Mariners won their last game, 4-0 versus Adelaide United played at home. As mentioned above, Central Coast Mariners was the only team on the pitch versus Adelaide United in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. Silvera got a match rating of 8.32 in that game, top player of the team. Silvera signed up for two assists, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 31 successful passes (of 38 total).
Prior to that match, a home win 2-1 against Melbourne Victory.Goal-happy betting people should observe that 10 of this side's 11 latest league fixtures have ended with three or more goals.
Mariners has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 5 goals from 3 games.
Head 2 Head
This was the final score when the sides met previously this season; Central Coast Mariners - Macarthur 2-3. As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's three Macarthur victories, one draw and four Central Coast Mariners wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Cummings 6 goals |   B. Arabuli 3 goals |  B. NKololo 3 goals |
Macarthur missing players
Central Coast Mariners missing players
| Macarthur | Central Coast Mariners | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 11 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 15 | 7 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 5 | 24 |
| 15 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 3 | 14 |
| 91% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 73% | 60% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 91% |
| 45% | 20% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 67% | 91% |
| 36% | 20% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 36% |
| 27% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 18% |
| 36% | 20% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 64% |
| 45% | 60% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 27% |
| 27% | 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 33% | 9% |
| 4.2 | 3.8 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.5 | 4.7 | 6.5 |
| 6.8 | 7.2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1.5 | 2.7 | 4.5 |
| 2.7 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3 | 2.5 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.3 | 11.4 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 10.7 | 13.9 |
| 3.9 | 4.6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.7 | 6.4 |
| 35% | 30% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 29% | 34% |
| 15.5 | 15.8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13 | 15 | 12.2 |
| 5.9 | 5.8 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.3 | 3.9 |
- Central Coast Mariners have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in A-League
- Central Coast Mariners have the most matches over the total-line (10) in A-League
- Central Coast Mariners have the most scored goals (24) in A-League
- Central Coast Mariners have the most scored goals in the second half (18) in A-League
- Central Coast Mariners have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Central Coast Mariners haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Macarthur haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Melbourne City | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 25 |
| 2 | Central Coast Mariners | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 24 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 19 |
| 3 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 18 |
| 4 | Macarthur | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 17 |
| 5 | Brisbane Roar | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 |
| 6 | Adelaide United | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 | -1 | 15 |
| 7 | Wellington Phoenix | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 14 |
| 8 | Sydney | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 8 | -3 | 13 |
| 9 | Newcastle Jets | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -10 | 12 |
| 10 | Western United | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -9 | 11 |
| 11 | Melbourne Victory | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -3 | 10 |
| 12 | Perth Glory | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 13 | -7 | 10 |
