Central Coast Mariners travel to Macarthur and Campbelltown Stadium packed with optimism, but the home team are no pushover. More news on the game here!
- Macarthur have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Central Coast Mariners have the most points from losing position (12) in A-League
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only four days ago in the A-League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Perth Glory.
Macarthur form and stats
Macarthur have played 11 A-League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-4-3 (wins-draws-losses).
The home team returns to Campbelltown Stadium after being equal after 90 minutes with Perth Glory (placed 7th) on their last time out; the A-League game ended 1-1. Midfielder Loïc Puyo was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.45 (out of ten) in that game. Puyo hit one key pass, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 55 successful passes (of 63 total).
Before that, Macarthur had a home game versus Melbourne Victory which ended with a victory 3-1.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 Macarthur have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found four matches with the results: Won one, drawn two and lost one.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Macarthur as they are travelling to their away game against Western United in the A-League. That match is four days after this one.
A decent goal production from Macarthur in their home games so far, with 18 goals from 11 league matches. On the other hand, Macarthur have conceded 15 goals.
Central Coast Mariners form and stats
As the visiting team in A-League matches, Central Coast Mariners, who have the fewest conceded goals (11) away in A-League, have produced an overall stat of 5-3-4 so far.
Two away games in a row for Mariners, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Melbourne City in the A-League. Gianni Stensness got a match rating of 7.82 in that game, top player of the team. Stensness dribled passed the opponent 5 of 5 times and had 44 successful passes (of 50 total).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Newcastle Jets at their stadium, the result 1-0.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found one similar match played by Mariners in our archives, and the results are: one win for Central Coast Mariners, zero draws and zero defeats.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Central Coast Mariners have scored 14 goals in 12 league games away. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. It's not easy to score on Mariners as they have only conceded 11 goals from these away games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Central Coast Mariners - Macarthur 2-0 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Macarthur zero wins, zero draws and Central Coast Mariners two victories. As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Derbyshire 14 goals |   M. Simon 10 goals | A. Kuol 7 goals |
Macarthur missing players
Central Coast Mariners missing players
| Macarthur | Central Coast Mariners | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 12 | 23 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 30 | 18 | 5 | Scored | S | 4 | 14 | 31 |
| 30 | 15 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 11 | 28 |
| 96% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 92% | 96% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 67% | 74% |
| 52% | 64% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 25% | 43% |
| 26% | 36% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 30% |
| 4% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 13% |
| 52% | 64% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 33% | 48% |
| 30% | 18% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 42% | 30% |
| 22% | 18% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 33% | 26% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1.3 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.8 | 1.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13.6 | 14.6 | 13.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16.3 | 12.3 | 12.9 |
| 4.4 | 4.6 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| 30% | 35% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 21% | 26% | 29% |
- All of Macarthur's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Central Coast Mariners have the fewest conceded goals (11) away in A-League
- Central Coast Mariners have the most points from losing position (12) in A-League
- Macarthur have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Macarthur haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 23 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 55 | 26 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 13 | 29 | 48 |
| 2 | Sydney | 24 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 33 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 41 |
| 3 | Adelaide United | 24 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 36 | 35 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 28 | 1 | 38 |
| 4 | Central Coast Mariners | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 31 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 36 |
| 5 | Macarthur | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 30 | 30 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 36 |
| 6 | Brisbane Roar | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 31 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 8 | 34 |
| 7 | Perth Glory | 23 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 40 | 39 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 32 |
| 8 | Wellington Phoenix | 23 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 37 | 31 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 31 |
| 9 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 23 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 40 | 39 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 23 | 1 | 31 |
| 10 | Western United | 23 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 28 | 37 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 28 | -9 | 28 |
| 11 | Melbourne Victory | 24 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 24 | 58 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 16 | 29 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 29 | -34 | 15 |
| 12 | Newcastle Jets | 23 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 19 | 36 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -17 | 14 |