Gold Coast Knights receive Peninsula Power as clear favourites: Big preview

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Competition: Australia Npl Queensland
Competition: Sun 30.Jul
Match begins: 07:30 (UTC)
Venue: Gold Coast Croatia Sports Centre (1500 seats)

1st spot in the Npl Queensland table for Gold Coast Knights at present, a strong campaign. The home team followers pray for more points as 7th-placed Peninsula Power visit Gold Coast Croatia Sports Centre.

Insights:
  • Gold Coast Knights have the the best goal difference (+21) in Npl Queensland
  • Peninsula Power have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Npl Queensland

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Gold Coast Knights form and stats

When playing at home in the Npl Queensland, Gold Coast Knights have managed 5 wins, 2 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 9 games.

A strong away win for Gold Coast Knights against Brisbane Roar II the last match, as Poljak, Brown and Inman were on target.

Ahead of that match, Gold Coast Knights lost 0-1 at home to Brisbane City.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Gold Coast Knights home games with this odds we find 6 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat. Looking at the victories, 2 matches were won by at least two goals.

Goals, goals, goals? Who knows about this one, but we do know that 10 of the 13 most recent league games with this club has contained at least three goals.

Gold Coast Knights have conceded 10 in these home matches.

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Peninsula Power form and stats

The visitors are W4-D3-L1 on the road this term. That's in the Npl Queensland. In general it has been a productive period now for Peninsula as they haven't lost any of their last ten games.

Peninsula Power have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Lachlan Hunter. It's been 186 minutes since they last conceded in Npl Queensland.

Peninsula played 0-0 against Rochedale Rovers in their previous match.

Before that, Peninsula Power secured a home win against Olympic with the score 2-0.

Peninsula has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 13 goals from 8 games. 11 goals have been conceded by Peninsula Power in these games.

Head 2 Head

The teams involved played each other earlier this match year: Peninsula Power - Gold Coast Knights 1-4. Data for the previous ten meetings involving these two sides are: six wins for Gold Coast Knights, zero draws and four wins for Peninsula Power. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: three games.

Top Goalscorers

KnightsA. Poljak
A. Poljak
9 goals
Gold Coast KnightsM. Brown
M. Brown
8 goals
Gold Coast KnightsB. Inman
B. Inman
5 goals

Gold Coast Knights missing players

Peninsula Power missing players

Gold Coast Knights Peninsula Power
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
18 9 3 Played P 2 8 18
11 5 2 Won W 0 4 6
5 2 0 Drew D 1 3 6
2 2 1 Lost L 1 1 6
38 18 4 Scored S 3 13 24
18 10 3 Conceded C 5 11 29
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 89%
89% 89% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 83%
72% 78% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 62% 61%
28% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 50% 44%
17% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 17%
61% 56% 67% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 67%
28% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 22%
11% 22% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 22%
 
6.6 6.9 4.7 Corners for (avg) C F 3 5 5.4
4 4 3.3 Corners against (avg) C A 8.5 5.8 4.7
1.9 1.7 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0.5 2.2 2.6
3 3 0 Red cards R C 2 3 5
 
13.7 14 14 Shots (avg) S ( 5.5 7.8 9.7
6.9 7.1 7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.4 4.2
31% 28% 19% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 48% 32%
 
7.2 8.3 8.7 Shots against (avg) S A 17 11.2 11.7
3.3 3.7 2.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 4 5.1
Key stats in Npl Queensland this season:
  • Gold Coast Knights have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Gold Coast Knights have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Gold Coast Knights have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Npl Queensland
  • Gold Coast Knights have the the best goal difference (+21) in Npl Queensland
  • Gold Coast Knights haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Gold Coast Knights is in the worst form (0-0-0)
  • Peninsula Power have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Peninsula Power have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Npl Queensland
  • Peninsula Power is in the worst form (0-0-0)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Gold Coast Knights 18 12 4 2 38 17 9 5 2 2 18 10 9 7 2 0 20 7 21 40
2 Gold Coast United 18 10 5 3 25 14 9 5 3 1 11 6 9 5 2 2 14 8 11 35
3 Moreton Bay United 19 10 4 5 41 25 11 8 2 1 27 12 8 2 2 4 14 13 16 34
4 Queensland Lions 19 8 7 4 34 26 10 4 3 3 21 17 9 4 4 1 13 9 8 31
5 Brisbane City 19 8 4 7 38 26 10 4 3 3 22 14 9 4 1 4 16 12 12 28
6 Rochedale Rovers 19 8 3 8 30 28 10 5 2 3 17 14 9 3 1 5 13 14 2 27
7 Peninsula Power 18 6 6 6 24 29 10 2 3 5 11 18 8 4 3 1 13 11 -5 24
8 Brisbane Roar II 18 7 2 9 24 27 11 6 0 5 15 15 7 1 2 4 9 12 -3 23
9 Redlands United 18 6 4 8 26 27 9 3 3 3 10 12 9 3 1 5 16 15 -1 22
10 SC Wanderers 18 6 4 8 19 29 8 3 1 4 10 16 10 3 3 4 9 13 -10 22
11 Olympic 18 3 3 12 19 34 4 0 2 2 1 5 14 3 1 10 18 29 -15 12
12 Eastern Suburbs Brisbane 18 2 2 14 18 54 9 0 0 9 6 28 9 2 2 5 12 26 -36 8

Read more about Npl Queensland

The National Premier Leagues (NPL) is the second level of football in Australia. It has eight regional divisions in which the number of teams vary. In total close to 100 teams compete in the NPL. It is currently not possible to promote to the A-League, but there is a relegation system in most divisions.