This could be an interesting match as Melbourne City have their presumed home advantage while Macarthur are ahead 2 points in the A-League table.
- All of Melbourne City's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Macarthur haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
The visiting Macarthur played their last game only four days ago, a A-League match. That game, against Central Coast Mariners, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Macarthur.
Melbourne City form and stats
Melbourne City have secured 6 points from their first three home games in the A-League. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Melbourne City, as their goalkeeper Tom Glover has completely shut out the opponents for 180 minutes in the A-League.
A good away victory last time out for Melbourne City, who won 6-0 against Melbourne Victory (placed 12th). In the preceding match a 2-0 victory visiting Western Sydney Wanderers.
As mentioned above, Melbourne "killed" Melbourne Victory in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Melbourne handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are five wins, one draw and three defeats.
Goals decide football matches and Melbourne City are scoring many of them at home; 6 on target from 3 league matches. Melbourne have conceded 6 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Macarthur form and stats
Macarthur's travelling support has been rewarded for their time and money so far this season, having witnessed Macarthur collect 12 points from their 6 away matches in the A-League. 4 victories and 0 draws have created these points (and only 2 defeats).
There might be some fixture complaints from Macarthur as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, the A-League match against Central Coast Mariners (0-2). Ahead of that match was the victory versus Sydney at their stadium, the result 1-0.
Macarthur are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is one win, zero draws and zero defeats. From a total of one match.
Macarthur find the net regularly in their away games. 7 goals from 6 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Macarthur have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. MacLaren 8 goals |   M. Derbyshire 7 goals | C. Metcalfe 3 goals |
Melbourne City missing players
Macarthur missing players
| Melbourne City | Macarthur | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 17 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 12 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 15 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 78% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 67% | 82% |
| 56% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 33% | 45% |
| 44% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 17% | 27% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 9% |
| 44% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 36% |
| 33% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 36% |
| 22% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 27% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.7 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 3.2 | 2.5 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13.8 | 18 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.5 | 14.7 | 15.9 |
| 4.7 | 5.3 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.9 |
| 40% | 38% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 26% | 26% |
- All of Melbourne City's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Macarthur haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Melbourne City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Central Coast Mariners | 11 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 24 |
| 2 | Macarthur | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -1 | 17 |
| 3 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | Adelaide United | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 14 | -3 | 16 |
| 5 | Melbourne City | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 15 |
| 6 | Brisbane Roar | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| 7 | Perth Glory | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 12 |
| 8 | Sydney | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| 9 | Western United | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 11 |
| 10 | Wellington Phoenix | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -1 | 11 |
| 11 | Newcastle Jets | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -4 | 11 |
| 12 | Melbourne Victory | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -13 | 7 |