Melbourne City fight Western United for glory and victory.
These are active days for the host team, as they played only three days ago in the Ffa Cup. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Hume City.
Melbourne City form and stats
Melbourne City have collected 3 points from their A-League home games so far after 1-0-0.
A strong away win for Melbourne against Hume City the last match, as M. Leckie were on target.
2-2 away at Adelaide United before that.The match schedule is unforgiving for Melbourne City as they have a new game in only four days, a A-League match thankfully also at home. Perth Glory are visiting.
Melbourne City has scored 2 goals so far and conceded 1 goal from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Western United form and stats
Western are travelling after their nice 1-0 home win in the A-League against Perth Glory (placed 10th). World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager J. Aloisi when Dylan Wenzel-Halls scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 70th minute. Joshua Risdon was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 8.22. The defender Risdon hit three key passes and won 10 of 12 duels.
Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Melbourne Victory.A quick return to home after this game, as Western are hosting Wellington Phoenix in the Ffa Cup only three days away.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last six meetings: five - zero - one (Melbourne wins - draws - Western United wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Good 1 goals | C. Metcalfe 1 goals |  J. MacLaren 1 goals |
Melbourne City missing players
Western United missing players
| Melbourne City | Western United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 8 | 10 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 5.5 |
| 5.5 | 1 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2.5 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 21 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 6 | 7 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 33% | 29% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 13.5 | 12 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 4 | 4 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 3.5 |
| Melbourne City | Last season | Western United | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 28 | 15 | Played | P | 13 | 26 | ||
| 17 | 12 | Won | W | 2 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 10 | 14 | ||
| 62 | 41 | Scored | S | 12 | 30 | ||
| 33 | 16 | Conceded | C | 30 | 47 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 88% | ||
| 89% | 93% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 85% | 69% | ||
| 64% | 80% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 69% | 54% | ||
| 46% | 60% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 27% | ||
| 29% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 31% | 27% | ||
| 61% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 46% | ||
| 29% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 15% | 27% | ||
| 11% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 38% | ||
| 7.2 | 7.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.5 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.2 | 6.3 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2.5 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 4 | ||
| 17.9 | 19.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.3 | 11.9 | ||
| 6.2 | 6.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.9 | 4.5 | ||
| 35% | 40% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 25% | ||
| 10.2 | 9.1 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.7 | 16.7 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 6 | ||
| 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 Victory | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Melbourne City | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | Wellington Phoenix | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Macarthur | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Central Coast Mariners | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Western United | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Adelaide United | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Newcastle Jets | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 10 | Perth Glory | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 11 | Sydney | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 |
| 12 | Brisbane Roar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 0 |