Excitement is likely at AAMI Park when Melbourne City challenge Sydney in what could be a splendid fixture. Read more!
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals (48) in A-League
- Melbourne City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sydney have scored away.
These teams have little in common geographically as Sydney have to travel 800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Melbourne City and Sydney.
Melbourne City form and stats
Melbourne City have played 11 A-League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-4-2 (wins-draws-losses). Melbourne has a nice streak going on as they have played ten consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Adelaide United defeat 50 days ago.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Tom Glover not having conceded a league goal in 261 minutes.
Melbourne City are returning here after visiting Wellington Phoenix and winning with a 6-0 scoreline. Nabbout, Tilio (2), Good and Leckie scored the goal(s). Defender Good got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 9.3/10. Good scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and won 3 of 3 duels.
In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Macarthur.The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Melbourne City 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 four wins, two draws and three defeats.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Melbourne as they are travelling to their away game against Melbourne Victory in the A-League. That match is three days after this one.
Melbourne City have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at AAMI Park with 21 goals in 11 league matches. 15 goals have been conceded.
Sydney form and stats
As the visiting team in A-League matches, Sydney have produced an overall stat of 3-3-4 so far.
Sydney go into this game after a win, the home game against Western Sydney Wanderers that ended 3-2. Attacker Buhagiar got a player rating of 8.3 in the game. "Man of the match" Buhagiar scored two goals, served one assist and hit one key pass.
A draw for Sydney before that, at their own venue hosting Macarthur (2-2).There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Sydney manager Corica as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Central Coast Mariners.
As opposed to that, Sydney have seen the ball go into their own net 11 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Sydney - Melbourne City 1-2 was the end result in these sides' last h2h match, played this season. Data for the prior ten meetings involving these two participants are: five wins for Melbourne City, one draw and four wins for Sydney. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.Top Goalscorers
  J. MacLaren 13 goals |  M. Leckie 7 goals |  F. Berenguer Bohrer 5 goals |
Melbourne City missing players
Sydney missing players
| Melbourne City | Sydney | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 21 |
| 12 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 48 | 21 | 3 | Scored | S | 2 | 10 | 29 |
| 28 | 15 | 4 | Conceded | C | 3 | 11 | 27 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 90% | 95% |
| 82% | 82% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 80% | 86% |
| 77% | 73% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 30% | 52% |
| 55% | 45% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 10% | 24% |
| 18% | 18% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 73% | 73% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 30% | 57% |
| 18% | 18% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 30% | 19% |
| 9% | 9% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 29% |
| 6.7 | 7.5 | 7.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 9.5 | 6.6 | 6.1 |
| 4.4 | 3.3 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2 | 4.4 | 4.3 |
| 2.3 | 2.2 | 3.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.9 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14.4 | 16.5 | 14.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 18.5 | 14.3 | 15 |
| 5.2 | 5.8 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.7 |
| 42% | 33% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 24% | 30% |
| 11 | 9.5 | 9.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.5 | 13.3 | 12 |
| 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 7 | 5.1 | 4.7 |
- Melbourne City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Sydney have scored away.
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals (21) at home in A-League
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals (48) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals in the first half (22) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals in the second half (26) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the the best goal difference (+20) in A-League
- Melbourne City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Melbourne City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Melbourne City is in the best form (4-2-0) in A-League
| 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 | 22 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 48 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 27 | 13 | 20 | 43 |
| 2 | Western United | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 27 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 5 | 38 |
| 3 | Melbourne Victory | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 24 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 28 |
| 4 | Sydney | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 29 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 28 |
| 5 | Adelaide United | 21 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 28 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 0 | 28 |
| 6 | Wellington Phoenix | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 24 | 33 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -9 | 27 |
| 7 | Macarthur | 19 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 30 | 33 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 23 | -3 | 26 |
| 8 | Central Coast Mariners | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 29 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 23 |
| 9 | Newcastle Jets | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 30 | 28 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 2 | 22 |
| 10 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 19 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 20 | -7 | 20 |
| 11 | Brisbane Roar | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 21 | 30 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 17 | -9 | 17 |
| 12 | Perth Glory | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 22 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | -8 | 14 |
