Melbourne City have performed well so far, being 1st place in the table. Adelaide United have a view both direction in the table from their 5th position.
- Melbourne City have the fewest conceded goals (8) in A-League
- Adelaide United have the most conceded goals (15) away in A-League
Melbourne City 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.
Melbourne City form and stats
Melbourne City have collected 13 points from their A-League home games so far after 4-1-0. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Melbourne City after consecutive victories at their own ground.
The home team returns to AAMI Park after drawing with Brisbane Roar (placed 8th) on their last time out; the game ended 0-0. Lam, defender, was given a rating of 7.82/10 in that game, top of the team. Lam won 7 of 8 duels.
1-1 away at Western Sydney Wanderers before that.Melbourne City are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at AAMI Park in their league games, having scored an impressive 13 goals in 5 matches. From these home matches, Melbourne have conceded only 3 goals.
Adelaide United form and stats
There's been little loot from Adelaide United's travels as they have only collected 6 points from 7 away games in the A-League. Adelaide United only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 3 draws. Adelaide United seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
Impressive finishing from Clough secured the home win 1-0 against Macarthur in their previous game. Adelaide United goalie Gauci was high and low in the Macarthur game, contributing eight saves towards the victory. Goalkeeper Gauci got the top player rating of the team with 8.81/10. Gauci topped it up with a clean sheet.
A draw for Adelaide United before that, at their own venue hosting Melbourne Victory (1-1).Adelaide have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 7 league away games 9 goals have been scored. The Adelaide United manager Veart has some worries about the defense as 15 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Melbourne City victories, four draws and four Adelaide United wins. Over/under statistics; eight of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less. Maclaren loves to meet Adelaide United and have scored 7 goals in these matches.
Top Goalscorers
  J. MacLaren 13 goals |   C. Goodwin 5 goals |  M. Tilio 3 goals |
Melbourne City missing players
Adelaide United missing players
| Melbourne City | Adelaide United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 13 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 13 |
| 8 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 24 | 13 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 8 | 15 | 18 |
| 85% | 83% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 77% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 85% |
| 54% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 57% | 46% |
| 31% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 57% | 31% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 8% |
| 46% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 71% | 54% |
| 54% | 67% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 23% |
| 15% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 29% | 23% |
| 5.5 | 4.3 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 6 | 6 |
| 3.3 | 2.7 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.7 | 6.6 | 6.4 |
| 2.2 | 1.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 3 | 3.3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 15.3 | 14.2 | 18 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.3 | 15.4 | 14.6 |
| 5.6 | 6.2 | 7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.1 |
| 33% | 35% | 57% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 15% | 29% | 34% |
| 9.8 | 6.8 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 17.3 | 14.9 |
| 3.5 | 2.3 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5 |
- Adelaide United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Adelaide United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Adelaide United have the most conceded goals (15) away in A-League
- Adelaide United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- All of Adelaide United's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Melbourne City have not yet lost a game at home.
- Melbourne City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Melbourne City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Melbourne City have the fewest conceded goals (8) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the most clean sheets (6) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals in the first half (14) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the the best goal difference (+10) at home in A-League
- Melbourne City have the the best goal difference (+16) in A-League
- Melbourne City have won significantly less corners at home than away.
| 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 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 16 | 27 |
| 2 | Central Coast Mariners | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 27 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 22 |
| 3 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| 4 | Wellington Phoenix | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 20 |
| 5 | Adelaide United | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 19 |
| 6 | Macarthur | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -2 | 17 |
| 7 | Perth Glory | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 13 | -4 | 17 |
| 8 | Brisbane Roar | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 16 |
| 9 | Western United | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 24 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 14 | -8 | 15 |
| 10 | Sydney | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | -4 | 14 |
| 11 | Newcastle Jets | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -10 | 14 |
| 12 | Melbourne Victory | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 12 | -5 | 11 |
