Central Coast Mariners and Adelaide United regulars eagerly anticipate A-League meeting at Central Coast Stadium

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Competition: Australia A-League
Competition: Sat 07.January
Match begins: 06:00 (UTC)
Venue: Central Coast Stadium (20119 seats)

Central Coast Mariners and Adelaide United are both doing (very) nicely in the A-League with their 3rd and 4th places respectively. This could be a fun match!

Insights:
  • Central Coast Mariners have the most scored goals (20) in A-League
  • Adelaide United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.

It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Adelaide United, who are travelling more than 1400 kilometers to play this game.

Central Coast Mariners and Adelaide United 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.

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Central Coast Mariners form and stats

The total A-League stats playing at home this season for Central Coast Mariners are 4-0-3 (wins-draws-losses). Central Coast Mariners are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

Mariners's previous game was also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Melbourne Victory (placed 11th). The home side are looking to build on that result. Roux, defender, was given a rating of 8.44/10 in that game, top of the team. Roux served one assist, hit two key passes and won 8 of 12 duels.

Heartbreak before that as Central Coast Mariners lost 0-1 at Melbourne City's place.

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 Central Coast Mariners have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 13 games) they have won 6 times, drawn 3 and lost 4.

Goal fest? Nobody knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 9 of the 10 most recent league games with this team has contained three goals or more.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (15 in 7 games), Mariners's attacking play is working. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Central Coast Mariners defense is not exactly impregnable. 11 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Adelaide United form and stats

There's been little loot from Adelaide United's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 6 away games in the A-League. Adelaide United only have 1 win to counter their 2 defeats and 3 draws.

Adelaide United are travelling after their nice 2-0 home win in the game against Perth Glory (placed 12th). Those three points felt good as this side had gone three league games without winning. Barr was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.31. The defender Barr scored one goal.

A loss against Newcastle Jets was the result prior to that, in a home game.

We have checked recent matches where Adelaide United have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 12 games were 5 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats.

The travelling fans enjoy Adelaide's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 6 league matches away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Adelaide United have conceded 11 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: three - zero - seven (Central Coast Mariners wins - draws - Adelaide United wins). As for goals, eight matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Adelaide UnitedC. Goodwin
C. Goodwin
4 goals
MarinersS. Silvera
S. Silvera
3 goals

Central Coast Mariners missing players

Adelaide United missing players

Central Coast Mariners Adelaide United
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 7 0 Played P 0 6 10
5 4 0 Won W 0 1 4
1 0 0 Drew D 0 3 3
4 3 0 Lost L 0 2 3
20 15 0 Scored S 0 9 16
14 11 0 Conceded C 0 11 13
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
90% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 90%
90% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 50%
30% 29% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 30%
20% 29% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 17% 10%
70% 86% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 83% 60%
20% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 20%
10% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 20%
 
6.5 7.3 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 6.5 6.6
4.7 5.6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6.7 6.1
2.8 2.7 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3.2 3.2
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 3 3
 
13 14 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 16.5 15.8
6.1 6.3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4.8 4.5
33% 34% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 31% 36%
 
12.5 11.4 0 Shots against (avg) S A 0 16.3 13.8
4.1 4 0 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 5.2 4.3
Key stats in A-League this season:
  • Adelaide United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Adelaide United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Adelaide United's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • All of Central Coast Mariners's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Central Coast Mariners have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Central Coast Mariners have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Central Coast Mariners have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in A-League
  • Central Coast Mariners have the most matches over the total-line (9) in A-League
  • Central Coast Mariners have the most points (12) at home in A-League
  • Central Coast Mariners have the most scored goals (15) at home in A-League
  • Central Coast Mariners have the most scored goals (20) in A-League
  • Central Coast Mariners have the most scored goals in the second half (15) in A-League
  • Central Coast Mariners 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 9 7 1 1 19 7 4 3 1 0 9 3 5 4 0 1 10 4 12 22
2 Western Sydney Wanderers 10 5 3 2 12 7 5 3 1 1 8 4 5 2 2 1 4 3 5 18
3 Central Coast Mariners 10 5 1 4 20 14 7 4 0 3 15 11 3 1 1 1 5 3 6 16
4 Adelaide United 10 4 3 3 16 13 4 3 0 1 7 2 6 1 3 2 9 11 3 15
5 Macarthur 10 4 2 4 13 15 4 2 0 2 5 4 6 2 2 2 8 11 -2 14
6 Sydney 10 4 1 5 16 18 5 1 1 3 6 10 5 3 0 2 10 8 -2 13
7 Brisbane Roar 9 2 6 1 8 7 6 1 4 1 5 5 3 1 2 0 3 2 1 12
8 Newcastle Jets 10 4 0 6 9 17 5 2 0 3 6 7 5 2 0 3 3 10 -8 12
9 Wellington Phoenix 10 2 5 3 18 18 7 2 3 2 14 12 3 0 2 1 4 6 0 11
10 Western United 10 3 2 5 14 19 6 2 2 2 7 9 4 1 0 3 7 10 -5 11
11 Melbourne Victory 9 3 1 5 9 11 3 1 0 2 4 3 6 2 1 3 5 8 -2 10
12 Perth Glory 9 2 1 6 7 15 2 1 1 0 3 2 7 1 0 6 4 13 -8 7

Read more about A-League

The A-League is the top level of the Australian football league system. Seasons run from October to May. Ten teams play a regular season of 27 fixtures to create a league table winner and the highest placed teams qualify for a playoff. The league winner is called the “premier” while the playoff winner is the “champion”. There is no set system for relegation, unlike most leagues in the world.