This has all the signs of another appealing meeting at Central Coast Stadium in the A-League. Central Coast Mariners is in 4th place and host Wellington Phoenix in 10th place. Read all about the match here!
- Central Coast Mariners have the the best goal difference (+4) at home in A-League
- Wellington Phoenix have the most conceded goals (10) in A-League
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Central Coast Mariners form and stats
As mentioned below, Central Coast Mariners are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 A-League games. Two home wins in a row for Central Coast Mariners bring valid hopes of a third.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Mark Birighitti not having conceded a league goal in 225 minutes.
A strong away win for Mariners against APIA Leichhardt Tigers the last match, as Balard, Moresche, Smith, Hatch, Hall and Kuol were on target. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Central Coast Mariners played a great game against APIA Leichhardt Tigers and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
Ahead of that match, Central Coast Mariners won a home game hosting Western Sydney Wanderers (2-0).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 Mariners have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found four games) they have won one time, drawn one and lost two.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Macarthur are coming to town in four days.
Early season league goal statistics from Central Coast Mariners's 2 home games: 4 goals, 0 conceded.
Wellington Phoenix form and stats
Still no away game victory in the A-League for Wellington Phoenix with 1 draw and 2 losses from their first 3 attempts. It's a growing despair in Wellington as they have recorded three consecutive losses.
Two away games in a row for Wellington, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Sydney in the A-League. Attacker Waine got a player rating of 7.61 in the game. "Man of the match" Waine scored one goal.
Before that one, a nice away victory 4-1 at Avondale Heights.We have checked recent matches where Wellington Phoenix have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 15 games were one victory, six draws and eight defeats.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Wellington Phoenix as they have only managed to score 2 times from 3 away games in the league. Wellington have conceded 7 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
These competitors have played earlier this season: Wellington Phoenix - Mariners 2-1. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Mariners two wins, one draw and Wellington Phoenix seven victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Ureña Porras 2 goals |   G. Hooper 2 goals |  O. Bozanić 1 goals |
Central Coast Mariners missing players
Wellington Phoenix missing players
| Central Coast Mariners | Wellington Phoenix | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 40% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 67% | 60% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 33% | 20% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 40% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 60% |
| 40% | 100% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 40% |
| 5 | 3.5 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.3 | 5.6 |
| 5.8 | 5.5 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 7 | 6.6 |
| 2.2 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15.4 | 15 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14 | 12.7 | 13 |
| 5.8 | 4.5 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| 24% | 44% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 15% | 19% |
| 17 | 13 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17 | 17.7 | 15.8 |
| 4.4 | 3.5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 6 | 5.6 |
- All of Central Coast Mariners's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Wellington Phoenix's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Central Coast Mariners have the the best goal difference (+4) at home in A-League
- Central Coast Mariners have won all their matches at home so far.
- Central Coast Mariners have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Central Coast Mariners haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Wellington Phoenix have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Wellington Phoenix have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Wellington Phoenix have the most conceded goals (10) in A-League
- Wellington Phoenix have the most conceded goals (7) away in A-League
- Wellington Phoenix have the most conceded goals in the second half (7) in A-League
- Wellington Phoenix have the the worst goal difference (-6) in A-League
- Wellington Phoenix have yet to win a game away.
- Wellington Phoenix haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Central Coast Mariners | Last season | Wellington Phoenix | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 27 | 14 | Played | P | 13 | 26 | ||
| 12 | 6 | Won | W | 5 | 10 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Lost | L | 3 | 8 | ||
| 35 | 19 | Scored | S | 20 | 44 | ||
| 33 | 21 | Conceded | C | 15 | 34 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 85% | 92% | ||
| 78% | 86% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 88% | ||
| 41% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 65% | ||
| 26% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 31% | ||
| 11% | 14% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 15% | ||
| 44% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 65% | ||
| 30% | 21% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 23% | ||
| 30% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 19% | ||
| 5 | 5.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.9 | ||
| 5 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.6 | 5.3 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.1 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 12.9 | 13.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15.7 | 16.7 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 5 | ||
| 28% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 35% | 34% | ||
| 10.8 | 8.9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17.6 | 17.1 | ||
| 4 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.8 | 5.3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Macarthur | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 13 |
| 2 | Western United | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| 3 | Melbourne Victory | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 4 | Central Coast Mariners | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Melbourne City | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 6 | Newcastle Jets | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | Sydney | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 5 |
| 8 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 5 |
| 9 | Perth Glory | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | Wellington Phoenix | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -6 | 4 |
| 11 | Adelaide United | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 3 |
| 12 | Brisbane Roar | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -5 | 1 |
