Season ticket holders at AAMI Park haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Melbourne City languishing in the 10th position so far. The guesting Sydney will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
- Melbourne City has the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in A-League
- Sydney has the fewest conceded goals (5) in A-League
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a A-League game only three days ago.
It's quite the trip for Sydney when visiting Melbourne as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.
Melbourne City form and stats
OK but not perfect. That could be the conclusion for Melbourne City's two home games in the A-League so far this season, having collected 3 points here at AAMI Park. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Melbourne to get some points in this home game.
Melbourne faced defeat in their previous match, away at Newcastle Jets (0-1). Prior to that, an away loss at Central Coast Mariners.
This is expected to be a close game, with Melbourne perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Melbourne City as a small favourite), we find five games. Melbourne City has won two of these, drawn two and lost one.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Melbourne as they have a new game in only three days, a A-League match thankfully also at home. Brisbane Roar are visiting.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Melbourne City at home in the league. 3 on target and 4 scored by the opposition; from 2 matches.
Sydney form and stats
Sydney are yet to lose a point on their A-League travels this season with 2 wins from 2 away games.
Sydney delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Brisbane Roar (placed 2nd) in their previous match; a A-League game. A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Wellington Phoenix.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Sydney playing away and similar expectations, we found six relevant matches. Results were two Sydney wins, two draws and two defeats.
Sydney have the goal stats of 5-1 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Melbourne victories, zero draws and eight Sydney wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. MacLaren 3 goals |   K. Barbarouses 3 goals |  P. Wood 2 goals |
Melbourne City missing players
Sydney missing players
| Melbourne City | Sydney | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 10 | 4 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 50% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 33% | 50% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| 33% | 0% | 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 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 5 | 3.5 | 2.3 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12.3 | 17 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 20 | 15 | 13.8 |
| 3.7 | 4 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 5 | 4.3 |
| 27% | 38% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 50% | 31% |
- All of Melbourne City's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Sydney's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Melbourne City has the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in A-League
- Melbourne City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sydney has the fewest conceded goals (1) away in A-League
- Sydney has the fewest conceded goals (5) in A-League
- Sydney has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (1) in A-League
- Sydney have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Sydney have won all their away games so far.
| 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 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 18 |
| 2 | Brisbane Roar | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 | Macarthur | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 14 |
| 4 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | Sydney | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | Newcastle Jets | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | -1 | 11 |
| 7 | Adelaide United | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -5 | 10 |
| 8 | Perth Glory | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 9 |
| 9 | Western United | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| 10 | Melbourne City | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 6 |
| 11 | Wellington Phoenix | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -4 | 5 |
| 12 | Melbourne Victory | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -8 | 4 |