Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Sydney - Melbourne City!
Melbourne City could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a A-League game only zero sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Sydney. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
It's quite the trip for Melbourne City when visiting Sydney as the cities are 800 kilometers apart.
Sydney form and stats
The story so far in the A-League for Sydney, who have the most scored goals (24) in A-League, at their home stadium (Netstrata Jubilee Stadium) is 5 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats.
Sydney drew their last game, 2-2 away at Wellington Phoenix (placed 6th). Ahead of that match, Sydney won a home game hosting Central Coast Mariners (1-0).
The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Sydney handle that role? We have found eight games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The win/draw/lost stats in these games are W7-D0-L1.
Sydney are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium in their league games, having scored an impressive 14 goals in 5 matches. From these home matches, Sydney have conceded only 4 goals.
Melbourne City form and stats
The visitors, who have the most scored goals (12) away in A-League, are W3-D1-L1 on the road this term. That's in the A-League.
Melbourne City play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-2 to Sydney (placed 1st). Preceding that, the 1-2 home loss versus Melbourne Victory.
Melbourne City are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 0 draws and 2 defeats. From a total of three matches.
The Melbourne City manager has got the team scoring on the road, with 12 away goals in 5 league matches. Melbourne City have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Sydney - Melbourne City 2-1 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. Sydney-Melbourne City H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Sydney 9 wins, Melbourne City 1 win, 0 draws. 6 of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  A. Le Fondre 18 goals |  A. Brosque 8 goals |
Sydney missing players
Melbourne City missing players
| Sydney | Melbourne City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 8 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 24 | 14 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 13 | 22 |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 9 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 91% |
| 80% | 80% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 83% | 91% |
| 70% | 80% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 83% | 91% |
| 50% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 45% |
| 30% | 40% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 33% | 27% |
| 70% | 80% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 73% |
| 20% | 20% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 18% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 18% |
| 4.2 | 3.4 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 7 | 6 | 5.8 |
| 4.1 | 4 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5.3 | 5.5 |
| 1.8 | 1.6 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3.7 | 2.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 121 | 74 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 16 | 97 | 170 |
| 54 | 31 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 11 | 45 | 72 |
| 44% | 45% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 18% | 29% | 31% |
- Melbourne City has the fewest matches under the total-line (1)
- Melbourne City has the most matches over the total-line (9)
- Melbourne City has the most scored goals (12) away
- Melbourne City has the the best goal difference (+5) away
- Sydney has the fewest conceded goals (10)
- Sydney has the fewest conceded goals (4) at home
- Sydney has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3)
- Sydney has the most points (15) at home
- Sydney has the most scored goals (14) at home
- Sydney has the most scored goals (24)
- Sydney has the most scored goals in the first half (13)
- Sydney has the the best goal difference (+10) at home
- Sydney has the the best goal difference (+14)
- Sydney have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sydney have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Sydney have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Sydney have won all their matches at home so far.
- Sydney have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Sydney haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sydney is in the best form (5-1-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sydney | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 25 |
| 2 | Melbourne City | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 19 |
| 3 | Western United | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 17 |
| 4 | Perth Glory | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
| 5 | Adelaide United | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 6 | Wellington Phoenix | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 15 |
| 7 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 14 |
| 8 | Melbourne Victory | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 12 |
| 9 | Central Coast Mariners | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 10 |
| 10 | Brisbane Roar | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 9 |
| 11 | Newcastle Jets | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 13 | -10 | 9 |