Adelaide United get ready to host Melbourne Victory for another action-packed A-League game here at Coopers Stadium.
- Adelaide United have won all their matches at home so far.
- Melbourne Victory have not yet lost a game away.
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
Adelaide United have only played one A-League game here so far, a win. Last season their home statistics were 7 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats from 13 matches.
It's back home for Adelaide, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Western United away with the result 4-2. Halloran, Ibusuki and Goodwin found the net in that victory. A goal frenzy last time out for Adelaide United, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Western United. Fun stuff to watch! Gauci loved the game against Western United. With a stunning six saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 4-2 victory. Midfield player Goodwin got a match rating of 8.13 in that game, the max score being 10. Goodwin scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and had 32 successful passes (of 37 total).
Ahead of that match, Adelaide United won a home game hosting Perth Glory (2-1).The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Adelaide United have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 15 matches with the results: Won 9, drawn 1 and lost 5.
Adelaide United has scored {2 goals} so far and conceded {1 goals} from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Melbourne Victory form and stats
Melbourne Victory are still undefeated on their travels in the A-League. They have only played two games though, winning one and drawing the other.
Melbourne have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Paul Izzo. It's been 251 minutes since they last conceded in A-League.
Melbourne Victory won their last game, 4-0 versus Newcastle Jets played at home. Those three points felt sweet as this club had gone three league rounds without winning. As you can tell from the results above, Melbourne Victory was very dominant against Newcastle Jets, winning the match with a scoreline that even the finest fortune teller couldn't predict. 4-0 (!) with Ikonomidis, Brimmer, D'Agostino and Fornaroli providing the goals. Brimmer got a match rating of 8.21 in that game, top player of the team. Brimmer scored one goal, served one assist and hit three key passes.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Brisbane Roar.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 11 similar matches played by Melbourne in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Melbourne Victory, 2 draws and 5 defeats.
It's early days yet, but Melbourne Victory has scored 3 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).
Head 2 Head
Melbourne Victory have not lost in the last 4 matches (3-1-0) facing Adelaide United.Top Goalscorers
  H. Ibusuki 2 goals |  B. Halloran 2 goals |  C. Goodwin 2 goals |
Adelaide United missing players
Melbourne Victory missing players
| Adelaide United | Melbourne Victory | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 8 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 50% | 80% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 60% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 40% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 7 | 7 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 8 | 6 |
| 5 | 8 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 3.2 |
| 3.2 | 5 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.5 | 2.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 17.8 | 19 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 22 | 15.8 |
| 5.6 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3.5 | 4 |
| 32% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 43% | 35% |
| 15.2 | 10 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 11.5 | 10.6 |
| 4.4 | 2 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 4 | 3.6 |
- Adelaide United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Adelaide United have won all their matches at home so far.
- Adelaide United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of Adelaide United's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Melbourne Victory have not yet lost a game away.
- Melbourne Victory have won significantly more corners away than at home.
| Adelaide United | Last season | Melbourne Victory | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 29 | 15 | Played | P | 14 | 28 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 8 | 14 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Drew | D | 4 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 42 | 25 | Scored | S | 21 | 44 | ||
| 34 | 15 | Conceded | C | 12 | 29 | ||
| 90% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 79% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 75% | ||
| 62% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 50% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 29% | ||
| 7% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 14% | 11% | ||
| 66% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 57% | 61% | ||
| 24% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 29% | 29% | ||
| 21% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 14% | ||
| 5.9 | 6.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.2 | ||
| 4.8 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.5 | 5.8 | ||
| 2.5 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.6 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | ||
| 14.3 | 15.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.1 | 14.1 | ||
| 5 | 6.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5 | ||
| 29% | 27% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 31% | ||
| 14.1 | 12.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.6 | 11.9 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.5 | ||
| 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 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 13 |
| 2 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 3 | Adelaide United | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 4 | Central Coast Mariners | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | Melbourne Victory | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | Sydney | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 7 | Wellington Phoenix | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | Brisbane Roar | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 | Newcastle Jets | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -3 | 6 |
| 10 | Macarthur | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 5 |
| 11 | Perth Glory | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 3 |
| 12 | Western United | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -7 | 1 |
