Adelaide United will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 9 points behind Melbourne Victory.
Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory 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.
Adelaide United form and stats
When playing at home, Adelaide United have managed 5 wins, 4 draws and suffered 4 defeats from 13 games.The home team returns to Coopers Stadium after sharing the points with Melbourne City on their last time out; the A-League game ended 0-0. Before that, Adelaide United had a home game versus Wellington Phoenix which ended with a victory 3-1.
This is expected to be a close game, with Adelaide United perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Adelaide United as a small favourite), we find four games. Adelaide United has won 1 of these, drawn 2 and lost 1.
The Adelaide United fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium, the tally being 18 in 13 matches. Adelaide United have conceded 19 in these home matches.
Melbourne Victory form and stats
The away team have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 7 wins, 2 draws and only 2 losses. Melbourne Victory seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?The supporters enjoyed Melbourne Victory's previous game versus Central Coast Mariners, a A-League 2-1 win played at home. Prior to that match, the Melbourne Victory manager K. Muscat faced defeat when travelling to Guangzhou Evergrande and losing 0-4.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Melbourne Victory playing away and similar expectations, we found 47 relevant matches. Results were 21 Melbourne Victory wins, 8 draws and 18 defeats.
After this away game Melbourne Victory return home for a AFC Champions League game against Guangzhou Evergrande. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Melbourne Victory have scored more than twice per away game on average, an impressive attacking display. They have 22 goals from 11 away matches. 12 goals have been conceded by Melbourne Victory in these games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Adelaide United - Melbourne Victory 2-0, played this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Adelaide United won 3 games, 1 match ended with a draw and Melbourne Victory has 6 wins.Top Goalscorers
  K. Barbarouses 14 goals / 4 assists |  O. Toivonen 12 goals / 3 assists |   C. Goodwin 9 goals / 7 assists |
Adelaide United missing players
Melbourne Victory missing players
| Adelaide United | Melbourne Victory | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 25 | 13 | Played | 11 | 25 |
| 31 | 18 | Scored | 22 | 49 |
| 29 | 19 | Conceded | 12 | 31 |
| 84% | 92% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 92% | Over 1.5 | 91% | 96% |
| 44% | 46% | Over 2.5 | 55% | 64% |
| 20% | 31% | Over 3.5 | 27% | 28% |
| 4% | 8% | Over 4.5 | 27% | 24% |
| 52% | 62% | Both teams to score | 64% | 72% |
| 28% | 15% | Clean Sheet | 27% | 20% |
| 36% | 31% | Failed To Score | 9% | 8% |
| 0 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | Red Cards (avg) | 0 | 0 |
- Melbourne Victory hasn't played a single 0-0 game.
- Adelaide United is involved in more matches over 2.5 home, than away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | D | P |
| 1 | Perth Glory | 25 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 51 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 10 | 29 | 57 |
| 2 | Sydney | 25 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 42 | 27 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 49 |
| 3 | Melbourne Victory | 25 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 49 | 31 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 19 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 18 | 47 |
| 4 | Adelaide United | 25 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 31 | 29 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 38 |
| 5 | Wellington Phoenix | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 43 | 36 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 7 | 37 |
| 6 | Melbourne City | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 32 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 37 |
| 7 | Newcastle Jets | 25 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 32 | 35 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 20 | -3 | 29 |
| 8 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 25 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 41 | 50 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 27 | -9 | 24 |
| 9 | Brisbane Roar | 25 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 34 | 60 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 25 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 19 | 35 | -26 | 18 |
| 10 | Central Coast Mariners | 25 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 28 | 64 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 14 | 34 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 30 | -36 | 10 |
