The A-League league table might not tell the truth so early on, but it's the best truth we have so far. Macarthur and Sydney are placed 4th and 8th respectively.
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Macarthur form and stats
Macarthur are yet to win a home game, having collected 1 point from their first two A-League games here at Allianz Stadium.
Happy days for Macarthur in their previous game, a A-League match away at Newcastle Jets (placed 11th) that ended with a 2-1 victory. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Wellington Phoenix.
Early season league goal statistics from Macarthur's 2 home games: 1 goal, 3 conceded.
Sydney form and stats
1-0-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Sydney in their A-League matches away.
The manager S. Corica was unhappy after their last game, a A-League match played at their home ground Netstrata Jubilee Stadium. Sydney suffered a 0-2 loss to Central Coast Mariners (placed 1st). Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Western Sydney Wanderers.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Sydney has managed 2 goals and let in 1 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  M. Milligan 1 goals |  M. Derbyshire 1 goals |  L. Puyo 1 goals |
Macarthur missing players
Sydney missing players
| Macarthur | Sydney | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 25% | 50% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 33% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 5 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17.5 | 19.5 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 20 | 16 |
| 4.8 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 6 | 5 |
| 21% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 20% |