Sydney are all set for a new task after their 0-4 versus Western Sydney Wanderers last time. Western United are coming to town!
- Sydney have the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in A-League
- Western United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
These teams have little in common geographically as Western United have to travel 800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
This should be an interesting match with lots of action and excitement as both sides are well revitalized since they last played a game. Let's start!
Sydney form and stats
The story so far in the A-League for Sydney at their home stadium (Netstrata Jubilee Stadium) is 3 wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats.
Cáceres was the last player to score a league goal for Sydney and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Sydney haven't scored in 235 minutes.
The Sydney fans got no joy from their last match, also played here at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium: A 0-4 defeat against Western Sydney Wanderers (placed 3rd). As you see from the result above, Sydney suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Midfield player Brattan got a match rating of 7.45 in that game, the max score being 10. Brattan hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 64 successful passes (of 71 total).
Prior to that, an away loss at Wellington Phoenix.The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Sydney matches with similar probabilities have ended with 4 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat (from 8 games).
Sydney has scored 11 league goals at home this season, in 10 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Sydney defense is not exactly impregnable. 18 goals conceded from 10 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Western United form and stats
There's been little loot from Western United's travels as they have only collected 10 points from 10 away games in the A-League. Western United only have 3 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 1 draw.
There might be some fixture complaints from Western United as they are again playing away from home after losing on the road in their previous match, 0-1 against Brisbane Roar. That defeat was their first after three consecutive league fixtures winning points. Imai was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.33. The defender Imai won 3 of 5 duels.
Preceding that game was the away victory against Melbourne Victory with the score of 2-1.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Western United when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 4 matches with the visitors losing 4 times, drawing 0 and winning 0 games.
The visiting Western have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 14 goals from 10 games.
Head 2 Head
Interestingly enough, the last time Western United kept a "clean sheet" was also meeting this opposition, nine league matches ago (Western United - Sydney 1-0). As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's five Sydney victories, one draw and three Western United wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  A. Le Fondre 6 goals |  R. Mak 5 goals |  J. Lolley 5 goals |
Sydney missing players
Western United missing players
| Sydney | Western United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 21 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 6 | 10 |
| 28 | 11 | 0 | Scored | S | 6 | 14 | 27 |
| 34 | 18 | 1 | Conceded | C | 3 | 20 | 37 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 71% | 70% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 76% |
| 62% | 60% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 80% | 62% |
| 43% | 40% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 38% |
| 19% | 20% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 50% | 20% | 19% |
| 57% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 70% | 67% |
| 14% | 10% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 29% | 40% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 30% | 19% |
| 5.8 | 5.8 | 3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 5.1 | 6.2 |
| 4.9 | 4 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 5.5 | 5.4 |
| 1.9 | 1.9 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 15.7 | 15.3 | 11 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.5 | 10.4 | 11.6 |
| 5.4 | 5.1 | 5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.2 | 4 |
| 25% | 22% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 44% | 32% |
| 12.7 | 12.8 | 4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12 | 15.6 | 14.9 |
| 4.5 | 4.2 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 6.3 | 6 |
- Sydney have the fewest points (11) at home in A-League
- Sydney have the most conceded goals in the first half (21) in A-League
- Sydney have the most points from losing position (14) in A-League
- Sydney have the the worst goal difference (-7) at home in A-League
- Sydney haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Western United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Western United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Western United have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Western United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 47 | 25 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 22 | 41 |
| 2 | Adelaide United | 21 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 44 | 34 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 23 | 10 | 37 |
| 3 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 21 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 31 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 34 |
| 4 | Central Coast Mariners | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 40 | 31 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 31 |
| 5 | Wellington Phoenix | 21 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 34 | 33 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 1 | 31 |
| 6 | Sydney | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 28 | 34 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 16 | -6 | 27 |
| 7 | Newcastle Jets | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 26 | 35 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 17 | -9 | 25 |
| 8 | Western United | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 27 | 37 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -10 | 25 |
| 9 | Macarthur | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 26 | 39 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 26 | -13 | 25 |
| 10 | Perth Glory | 21 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 28 | 35 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 21 | -7 | 24 |
| 11 | Brisbane Roar | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 25 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | -6 | 23 |
| 12 | Melbourne Victory | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 23 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -4 | 21 |
