A highly important fixture in A-League as both teams are challenging for the top league positions. With Adelaide United in 4th position and Western United located at 3rd, this is almost guaranteed to be a thriling duel. Read on to learn more!
- Adelaide United have the most points from losing position (19) in A-League
- Western United have the most clean sheets (9) in A-League
The visiting Western United played their last game only four days ago, a A-League match. That game was also an away game, at Newcastle Jets. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Adelaide United form and stats
The complete A-League stats at home this season for Adelaide United are 6-2-4 (wins-draws-losses). With a nice streak brewing from their home games, Adelaide are also looking for their fifth consecutive victory regardless of location.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Joe Gauci not having conceded a league goal in 208 minutes.
Adelaide United's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-0 versus Brisbane Roar (placed 11th). The home side are looking to build on that result. The versatile forward Ibusuki bettered all teammates in that game and got a match rating of 7.85 out of 10. Ibusuki scored one goal.
Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Perth Glory.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 16 games. Adelaide United has won nine of these, drawn one and lost six.
Adelaide have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Coopers Stadium with 20 goals in 12 league matches. Adelaide United have conceded 13 in these home matches. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.
Western United form and stats
Playing away, Western United have won 4 games, drawn 4 and suffered 4 defeats in the A-League this season.
It's another away game for the visitors, as they travelled to Newcastle Jets (placed 9th) in their previous outing. The match ended in a draw 1-1. Kilkenny got a match rating of 7.93 in that game, top player of the team. Kilkenny served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 67 successful passes (of 78 total).
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Central Coast Mariners wasn't a success with a 0-1 loss.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Western United in our archives, and the results are: eight wins for Western United, three draws and two defeats.
Western United have scored 14 goals on their travels this season, from 12 away games in the league. Western have conceded 16 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The newest recorded result involving both these participants is the Western United - Adelaide United 1-0 played earlier this season. Adelaide United-Western United H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: Adelaide one win, Western United two wins, two draws. two of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  C. Goodwin 9 goals |   A. Prijović 9 goals |  H. Ibusuki 6 goals |
Adelaide United missing players
Western United missing players
| Adelaide United | Western United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 25 |
| 11 | 6 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 13 |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 36 | 20 | 5 | Scored | S | 3 | 14 | 39 |
| 30 | 13 | 7 | Conceded | C | 4 | 16 | 28 |
| 92% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 83% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 75% | 68% |
| 60% | 67% | 75% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 42% | 48% |
| 24% | 25% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 25% | 32% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 16% |
| 64% | 58% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 58% | 48% |
| 24% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 25% | 40% |
| 20% | 8% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 12% |
| 5.8 | 6.8 | 8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 8.7 | 6.7 | 5.8 |
| 4.9 | 4 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 6.2 | 6 |
| 2.6 | 2.3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.8 | 1.9 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14.4 | 16.2 | 16.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.3 | 12.9 | 13.2 |
| 4.8 | 5.9 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.1 | 4.5 |
| 30% | 28% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 29% | 35% |
| 14.3 | 12.4 | 12 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 18.3 | 16.2 | 14.8 |
| 4.8 | 4.2 | 4.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.7 | 5.2 | 4.7 |
- Adelaide United have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Adelaide United have the most points from losing position (19) in A-League
- Adelaide United haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Western United have the most clean sheets (9) in A-League
- Western 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 | Melbourne City | 25 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 53 | 32 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 17 | 21 | 46 |
| 2 | Melbourne Victory | 25 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 38 | 24 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 22 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 14 | 45 |
| 3 | Western United | 25 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 39 | 28 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 45 |
| 4 | Adelaide United | 25 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 36 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 40 |
| 5 | Central Coast Mariners | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 47 | 35 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 19 | 12 | 39 |
| 6 | Wellington Phoenix | 24 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 31 | 46 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 26 | -15 | 36 |
| 7 | Macarthur | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 37 | 46 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 26 | -9 | 32 |
| 8 | Sydney | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 35 | 37 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 17 | -2 | 31 |
| 9 | Newcastle Jets | 25 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 45 | 41 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 19 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 22 | 4 | 29 |
| 10 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 24 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 28 | 35 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 22 | -7 | 26 |
| 11 | Brisbane Roar | 25 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 26 | 38 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 22 | -12 | 23 |
| 12 | Perth Glory | 26 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 43 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 28 | -23 | 18 |
