Waterside Karori and Napier City Rovers have delivered a "par" performance so far, to use a golf phrase. The teams both hold mid-table positions in the Regional Leagues.
- Waterside Karori have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Regional Leagues
- Napier City Rovers have scored in all their matches so far.
Waterside Karori and Napier City Rovers 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.
Waterside Karori form and stats
2 victories, 1 draw and 3 defeats. That’s what Waterside Karori have to build on here at Karori Park in the Regional Leagues.
Waterside Karori are returning here after visiting Stop Out and winning with a 4-1 scoreline. Akers, Cordwell, Ward and Fautley scored the goal(s).
In the game before, a strong away win at Napier City Rovers. A Chatham Cup game.
Some goal stats: A review of the 13 latest league matches highlights that 12 of them had goals from both sides.
Goals decide football matches and Waterside Karori are scoring many of them at home; 14 on target from 6 league matches.
Napier City Rovers form and stats
The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 4 wins, 0 draws and only 2 losses in the Regional Leagues. It could be a hat trick of victories away for Napier, as they have won on their previous two travels.
Napier City Rovers play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 3-1 victory visiting Miramar (placed 7th).
The game before that was the Chatham Cup-duel against Waterside Karori, a home defeat (0-3).
Betting related statistic: Both teams have scored in 12 of this club's last 13 league games.
The Napier City Rovers manager Robertson has seen his team go crazy on the road this season, having scored 19 goals in 6 league matches away. The Napier manager Robertson has some worries about the defense as 14 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
Strangely enough, the last time Napier City Rovers kept a "clean sheet" was also versus this opponent, nine league games ago (Napier City Rovers - Waterside Karori 5-0). Numbers for the prior eight meetings involving these two squads are: four wins for Waterside, one draw and three wins for Napier City Rovers. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: three games.
Top Goalscorers
  D. Corfe 12 goals | J. McNamara 9 goals | J. Akers 7 goals |
Waterside Karori missing players
Napier City Rovers missing players
| Waterside Karori | Napier City Rovers | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 32 | 14 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 19 | 38 |
| 29 | 12 | 0 | Conceded | C | 4 | 14 | 25 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 92% | 83% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 54% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 50% | 46% |
| 92% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 92% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 3.1 | 2.8 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 2.4 | 3.2 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 2 | 1.1 |
| 1.5 | 1.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5.3 | 6.3 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6 | 4.8 |
| 2.5 | 3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
| 97% | 78% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 127% | 141% |
| 6.4 | 7.2 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 5.8 | 3.1 |
| 3.5 | 3.7 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 2.2 | 1.2 |
- All of Napier City Rovers's away-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- All of Waterside Karori's matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Napier City Rovers have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Napier City Rovers have scored in all their matches so far.
- Napier City Rovers haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Waterside Karori have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Waterside Karori have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Waterside Karori have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Regional Leagues
- Waterside Karori 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 | Wellington Olympic | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 56 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 38 | 34 |
| 2 | Wellington Phoenix Res | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 35 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 17 | 30 |
| 3 | Western Suburbs | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 24 |
| 4 | Napier City Rovers | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 38 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 13 | 23 |
| 5 | Petone | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 20 |
| 6 | Waterside Karori | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 18 |
| 7 | Miramar | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 27 | 34 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 20 | -7 | 15 |
| 8 | Stop Out | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 22 | 33 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 17 | -11 | 14 |
| 9 | North Wellington | 13 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 16 | 47 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 20 | -31 | 4 |
| 10 | Whanganui Athletic | 13 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 14 | 53 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 27 | -39 | 3 |
