Struggling Central Coast Mariners will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Sydney in the upcoming league round. It’s 11th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
Sydney could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a AFC Champions League game only four sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Yokohama F. Marinos. 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.
Central Coast Mariners form and stats
3-1-4 (win-draw-lost) are the A-League numbers at home for Central Coast Mariners so far this season. It's trouble wherever Central Coast Mariners are playing these days as they have suffered five straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways. The Central Coast Mariners manager A. Stajcic might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.
In their previous game, the manager A. Stajcic led his Central Coast Mariners to a defeat in the A-League match away at Adelaide United. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Central Coast Stadium. Heartbreak before that as Central Coast Mariners lost 3-4 at Newcastle Jets's place.
Central Coast Mariners has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 8 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Central Coast Mariners defense is not exactly impregnable. 14 goals conceded from 8 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Sydney form and stats
Sydney, who have the most scored goals (34) in A-League, have an excellent away record in the A-League so far with 5-1-1 from 7 games. In general it has been a productive period now for Sydney as they haven't lost any of their last twelve games. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Sydney are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.
The Sydney goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 249 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Sydney play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-4 to Yokohama F. Marinos. Before that, Sydney secured a home win against Brisbane Roar with the score 1-0.
Sydney lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Sydney are regular goalscorers on their travels. Sydney have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Sydney - Central Coast Mariners 1-0 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Central Coast Mariners won one game, two matches ended with a draw and Sydney has seven wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  A. Le Fondre 15 goals |  K. Barbarouses 7 goals |   M. Đurić 4 goals |
Central Coast Mariners missing players
Sydney missing players
| Central Coast Mariners | Sydney | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 17 | 8 | 0 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 5 | 13 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 7 | 15 | 34 |
| 34 | 14 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 82% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 86% | 80% |
| 65% | 62% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 71% | 73% |
| 29% | 38% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 43% | 33% |
| 12% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 20% |
| 59% | 62% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 57% | 67% |
| 6% | 12% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 29% | 27% |
| 35% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 7% |
| 5.1 | 4.9 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.1 |
| 6.5 | 7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 4 | 4.5 |
| 1.6 | 1.6 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 235 | 107 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 22 | 61 | 166 |
| 72 | 33 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 15 | 32 | 80 |
| 24% | 27% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 47% | 47% | 42% |
- Central Coast Mariners has the fewest clean sheets (1)
- Central Coast Mariners has the fewest scored goals (17)
- Central Coast Mariners has the fewest scored goals in the second half (7)
- Central Coast Mariners has the the worst goal difference (-5) at home
- Central Coast Mariners haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Central Coast Mariners is in the worst form (1-0-5)
- Sydney has the fewest conceded goals (13)
- Sydney has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3)
- Sydney has the most points (16) away
- Sydney has the most scored goals (34)
- Sydney has the most scored goals in the first half (19)
- Sydney has the the best goal difference (+21)
- Sydney has the the best goal difference (+8) away
- Sydney have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Sydney haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sydney is in the best form (5-1-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sydney | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 21 | 40 |
| 2 | Melbourne City | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 32 | 27 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 30 |
| 3 | Wellington Phoenix | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 27 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 30 |
| 4 | Perth Glory | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 29 |
| 5 | Adelaide United | 18 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 32 | 32 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 21 | 0 | 27 |
| 6 | Brisbane Roar | 17 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -2 | 25 |
| 7 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 23 | 25 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 14 | -2 | 21 |
| 8 | Western United | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 23 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -2 | 21 |
| 9 | Melbourne Victory | 17 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -6 | 16 |
| 10 | Newcastle Jets | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 35 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 22 | -17 | 14 |
| 11 | Central Coast Mariners | 17 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 17 | 34 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 20 | -17 | 13 |