With their 2 point advantage in the league table, Canterbury United fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Hawke's Bay United.
- Canterbury United has the most clean sheets (2) at home in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the fewest scored goals (12) in Premiership
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Canterbury's stadium, ASB Football Park, has a artifical turf surface. Hawke's Bay United have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Hawke's Bay United when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses from five matches. They have scored 6 goals in these games and conceded 9.
Canterbury United form and stats
2 victories, 0 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Canterbury United, who have the most clean sheets (2) at home in Premiership, have to build on here at ASB Football Park in the Premiership. Canterbury has recorded two wins in a row here at ASB Football Park, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
The home team returns to ASB Football Park after being equal after 90 minutes with Hamilton Wanderers (placed 4th) on their last time out; the Premiership game ended 1-1. A 3-3 draw away before that, with Waitakere United the opponent.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Canterbury handle that role? We have found two games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are zero wins, zero draws and two defeats.
The Canterbury fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 4 in 4 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Canterbury United defense is not exactly impregnable. 7 goals conceded from 4 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Hawke's Bay United form and stats
The visitors, who have the fewest scored goals (12) in Premiership, are W2-D0-L3 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Hawke's Bay United, as they have won on their previous two travels.
Home advantage was not enough for Hawke's Bay United in their previous game, as they lost their Premiership-match, hosting Auckland City, 0-4. Before that one, a nice away victory 4-1 at Hamilton Wanderers.
As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Auckland City was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.
Hawke's Bay United are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 8 times in 5 away games so far. As for defending, Hawke's rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 9 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Hawke's Bay United - Canterbury 0-3. Canterbury-Hawke's Bay United H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Canterbury United five wins, Hawke's Bay United two wins, three draws. nine of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  J. Randall 4 goals |  G. Coughlan 3 goals | J. Richards 3 goals |
Canterbury United missing players
Hawke's Bay United missing players
| Canterbury United | Hawke's Bay United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 14 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 6 | 8 | 12 |
| 18 | 7 | 4 | Conceded | C | 2 | 9 | 21 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 60% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 90% |
| 50% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 20% | 30% |
| 20% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 20% | 10% |
| 60% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 80% | 50% |
| 30% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 10% | 25% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 40% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.9 | 1.2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.4 | 9.8 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 8.8 | 7.6 |
| 4.3 | 4.5 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 5.2 | 3.6 |
| 33% | 22% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 55% | 31% | 33% |
- All of Hawke's Bay United's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Canterbury United has the most clean sheets (2) at home in Premiership
- Canterbury United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Hawke's Bay United has the fewest points from losing position (1) in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the fewest scored goals (12) in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Hawke's Bay United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Hawke's Bay United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Auckland City | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 20 |
| 2 | Team Wellington | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
| 3 | Eastern Suburbs | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 15 |
| 4 | Hamilton Wanderers | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 13 |
| 5 | Canterbury United | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | -4 | 12 |
| 6 | Waitakere United | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 8 | -3 | 11 |
| 7 | Hawke's Bay United | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -9 | 10 |
| 8 | Wellington Phoenix Res | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 19 | -13 | 9 |