It's still early in the A-League season, but we are learning more and more about the teams. Here is the Sydney - Central Coast Mariners preview!
The visiting Central Coast Mariners played their last game only three days ago, a A-League match.
Sydney form and stats
0-1-0 (win-draw-lost) are the A-League numbers at home for Sydney so far this season.
Sydney drew their last game, also a home match. Western Sydney Wanderers (placed 1st) was the opponent, 1-1 the score. In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Wellington Phoenix.
Sydney are traveling soon after this match as the A-League match at Melbourne Victory awaits in four days.
At Netstrata Jubilee Stadium, Sydney has the goal stats of 1-1 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.
Central Coast Mariners form and stats
A perfect away game record so far for the visitors in the A-League, but they have only played once. Last season their away game stats were 2 wins, 0 draws and 11 defeats from 13 matches.
Home advantage was not enough for Mariners in their previous game, as they lost their A-League-match, hosting Western Sydney Wanderers, 0-1. Preceding that game was the away victory against Macarthur with the score of 2-0.
As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Central Coast Mariners has managed 2 goals and let in 0 from 1 match.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Sydney won seven games, two matches ended with a draw and Central Coast Mariners has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  N. Brattan 1 goals |  K. Barbarouses 1 goals |  C. Nieuwenhof 1 goals |
Sydney missing players
Central Coast Mariners missing players
| Sydney | Central Coast Mariners | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 33% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 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% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 100% | 67% |
| 0% | 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 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 14 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 6 | 11.7 |
| 5 | 4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 4.3 |
| 30% | 25% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 67% | 23% |
| Sydney | Last season | Central Coast Mariners | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 28 | 15 | Played | P | 13 | 26 | ||
| 18 | 11 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Lost | L | 11 | 18 | ||
| 52 | 27 | Scored | S | 13 | 26 | ||
| 25 | 12 | Conceded | C | 30 | 55 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 79% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 77% | ||
| 57% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 62% | 62% | ||
| 25% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 35% | ||
| 14% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 19% | ||
| 61% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 58% | ||
| 29% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 8% | ||
| 14% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 38% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.2 | 1.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.7 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 11.5 | 13.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.2 | 13.1 | ||
| 5.1 | 5.6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 4.1 | ||
| 37% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 24% | 25% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Macarthur | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 3 | Brisbane Roar | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Central Coast Mariners | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Melbourne City | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 6 | Sydney | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Adelaide United | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Perth Glory | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Wellington Phoenix | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 10 | Western United | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
| 11 | Melbourne Victory | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 |
| 12 | Newcastle Jets | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 0 |