Perth Glory have travelled here for an appealing game against the hosts Melbourne City. Read up on the fixture with this thorough A-League preview!
- Melbourne City have the the best goal difference (+5) in A-League
These teams have little in common geographically as Perth Glory have to travel 3400 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Both contenders have had enough days rest since their previous competitive action. Let's aim for an active fixture!
Melbourne City form and stats
Only two A-League home games for Melbourne City so far, yet both highs and lows with 1 win, 1 draw and 0 defeat.
Melbourne City drew their last game, also a home match. Wellington Phoenix (placed 9th) was the opponent, 2-2 the score. Opportunity lost for Melbourne in the Wellington Phoenix match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. MacLaren has beaten the opponent goalkeeper in four games in a row. Outstanding! Leckie (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.64/10. Leckie served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 5 times and had 27 successful passes (of 33 total).
A strong away win before that one, visiting Melbourne Victory and winning 2-0.Melbourne City are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 9 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 7, drew 2 and lost 0.
At AAMI Park, Melbourne City has the goal stats of 4-3 (for/against) from 2 league fixtures.
Perth Glory form and stats
The visitors are W1-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the A-League.
Perth Glory play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-2 to Adelaide United (placed 6th). Attacker Colli got a player rating of 7.62 in the game. "Man of the match" Colli scored one goal and hit one key pass.
Before that one, a nice away victory 2-1 at Central Coast Mariners.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Perth played away with similar odds. This revealed 5 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 4 times.
Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Perth Glory have conceded 6 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Melbourne City three wins, four draws and Perth Glory three victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  J. MacLaren 5 goals |   G. Colli 2 goals |  A. McEneff 2 goals |
Melbourne City missing players
Perth Glory missing players
| Melbourne City | Perth Glory | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 75% | 75% |
| 50% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 75% | 75% |
| 25% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 75% | 75% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 25% |
| 6.5 | 8 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 5.5 | 5.5 |
| 3 | 3.5 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 6.5 | 6.5 |
| 2.8 | 4 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14.8 | 16 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 10.8 | 10.8 |
| 7 | 7.5 | 7.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| 29% | 27% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 11% | 27% | 27% |
| 9.8 | 10.5 | 10.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 12 | 12 |
| 3.8 | 4 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.2 | 3.2 |
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals in the first half (7) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the the best goal difference (+5) in A-League
| Melbourne City | Last season | Perth Glory | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 29 | 15 | Played | P | 13 | 26 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 9 | 16 | ||
| 57 | 29 | Scored | S | 12 | 20 | ||
| 36 | 19 | Conceded | C | 28 | 43 | ||
| 97% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 83% | 87% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 65% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 35% | ||
| 45% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 19% | ||
| 14% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 15% | ||
| 59% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 38% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 19% | ||
| 21% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 50% | ||
| 6.6 | 7.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.8 | 3.7 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.1 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 1.7 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 14.6 | 16.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.5 | 10.1 | ||
| 5 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3 | ||
| 39% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 25% | ||
| 10.4 | 8.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.1 | 16.5 | ||
| 3.5 | 2.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.5 | ||
| 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 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | Sydney | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Newcastle Jets | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Macarthur | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | Adelaide United | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 5 |
| 7 | Central Coast Mariners | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Melbourne Victory | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | -2 | 4 |
| 9 | Wellington Phoenix | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 3 |
| 10 | Perth Glory | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 3 |
| 11 | Brisbane Roar | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -2 | 3 |
| 12 | Western United | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -5 | 1 |
