In total; 14 rounds of fixtures are played and Adelaide United are 4 points ahead of Brisbane Roar. What will happen?
- Adelaide United have the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in A-League
- Brisbane Roar have the fewest scored goals (10) in A-League
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
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.
Adelaide United form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Coopers Stadium as Adelaide United have scored 9 goals to get 13 points from 6 games. The overall stats in the A-League are 4-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).
An away draw last time out for Adelaide, facing Melbourne City in a game that ended 3-3. A disappointing finish for Adelaide United in their match versus Melbourne City as their 3-1 lead was destroyed and replaced with a 3-3 full time score. Goodwin (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.0/10. Goodwin scored one goal and hit five key passes.
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Macarthur in a game that was won 1-0.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Adelaide United have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 12 games) they have won 8 times, drawn 2 and lost 2.
Adelaide United have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Coopers Stadium with 9 goals in 6 league matches. Adelaide have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Brisbane Roar form and stats
The visitors are W2-D2-L2 on the road this term. That's in the A-League. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Brisbane Roar are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.
Brisbane Roar aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 304 league minutes without a goal. Chapman was the last player to find the net.
Brisbane lost away at Newcastle Jets (0-4) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Newcastle Jets was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind. Midfield player O'Shea was the top player of the team with a match rating of 6.95/10. O'Shea hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 53 successful passes (of 63 total).
A 0-0 draw was the result before that, hosting Melbourne City.Brisbane Roar are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of 8 matches.
Few goals the story here? 11 of this club's last 14 league matches have seen two or less goals.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 6 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, Brisbane have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Brisbane Roar - Adelaide United 1-1 was the end result in these participants' previous head to head fixture, earlier this season. Statistics for the previous ten meetings involving these two contenders are: five wins for Adelaide, two draws and three wins for Brisbane Roar. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.
Top Goalscorers
  C. Goodwin 6 goals |  H. Ibusuki 3 goals |  B. Halloran 3 goals |
Adelaide United missing players
Brisbane Roar missing players
| Adelaide United | Brisbane Roar | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 14 |
| 5 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 21 | 9 | 4 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 21 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 2 | 8 | 14 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 79% |
| 86% | 67% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 67% | 57% |
| 50% | 33% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 33% | 21% |
| 36% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 14% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 57% | 33% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 43% |
| 21% | 50% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 36% |
| 21% | 17% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 43% |
| 6.1 | 6 | 4.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 6.2 | 5.2 |
| 6.8 | 6.2 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1 | 4.2 | 5.1 |
| 3.1 | 3.7 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14.4 | 13.7 | 12.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 11 | 11.4 |
| 4.2 | 3.7 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.7 | 3.6 |
| 36% | 41% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 23% | 20% |
| 15.9 | 12.2 | 11.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6 | 9.7 | 13.3 |
| 5.1 | 4.2 | 4.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.8 | 3.5 |
- Adelaide United have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Adelaide United have scored more than double the goals of Brisbane Roar.
- Adelaide United have the fewest conceded goals (3) at home in A-League
- Adelaide United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Brisbane Roar have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Brisbane Roar have the fewest scored goals (10) in A-League
- Brisbane Roar have the fewest scored goals in the first half (3) in A-League
- Brisbane Roar haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| 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 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 16 | 28 |
| 2 | Central Coast Mariners | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 23 |
| 3 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 21 |
| 4 | Wellington Phoenix | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 21 |
| 5 | Adelaide United | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 18 | 0 | 20 |
| 6 | Macarthur | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -2 | 18 |
| 7 | Perth Glory | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -4 | 18 |
| 8 | Sydney | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 12 | -3 | 17 |
| 9 | Newcastle Jets | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -6 | 17 |
| 10 | Brisbane Roar | 14 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -4 | 16 |
| 11 | Western United | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 26 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 16 | -8 | 16 |
| 12 | Melbourne Victory | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -6 | 11 |
