The visiting Melbourne Victory side should be favourites in this visit to Western Sydney Wanderers, as the away team holds a 23 point advantage from their 26 league games this season.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 800 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Western Sydney Wanderers form and stats
Western Sydney Wanderers's struggle is real here at ANZ Stadium with only 12 points collected from 13 games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly 3-3-7.In their previous game, the manager M. Babbel led his Western Sydney Wanderers to a defeat in the A-League match away at Central Coast Mariners. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at ANZ Stadium. Preceding that game was the home draw versus Sydney that ended 1-1.
Western Sydney Wanderers has scored 17 goals at home this season, in 13 matches. Western Sydney Wanderers have conceded 23 from these games.
Melbourne Victory form and stats
7 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Melbourne Victory playing as the away team this season. Three consecutive losses in away matches means Melbourne Victory are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.Melbourne Victory play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to Adelaide United. A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Central Coast Mariners.
Melbourne Victory has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches this season, 22 goals from 12 games. As opposed to that, Melbourne Victory have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Western Sydney Wanderers - Melbourne Victory 1-2. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's 0 Western Sydney Wanderers victories, 3 draws and 7 Melbourne Victory wins.Top Goalscorers
  K. Barbarouses 14 goals / 4 assists |  O. Toivonen 12 goals / 3 assists |   Oriol Riera 10 goals / 1 assists |
Western Sydney Wanderers missing players
Melbourne Victory missing players
| Western Sydney Wanderers | Melbourne Victory | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 26 | 13 | Played | 12 | 26 |
| 42 | 17 | Scored | 22 | 49 |
| 53 | 23 | Conceded | 13 | 32 |
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | 83% | 92% |
| 69% | 54% | Over 2.5 | 50% | 62% |
| 54% | 31% | Over 3.5 | 25% | 27% |
| 23% | 15% | Over 4.5 | 25% | 23% |
| 69% | 62% | Both teams to score | 58% | 69% |
| 15% | 23% | Clean Sheet | 25% | 19% |
| 15% | 15% | Failed To Score | 17% | 12% |
| 6 | 6.4 | Corners For (avg) | 5.3 | 5 |
| 6.3 | 6.1 | Corners Against (avg) | 7.3 | 5.5 |
| 2.2 | 1.8 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 1.9 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 1 | Red Cards (total) | 0 | 2 |
- Neither of the teams have 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 | D | P |
| 1 | Perth Glory | 26 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 51 | 23 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 11 | 28 | 57 |
| 2 | Sydney | 26 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 43 | 27 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 16 | 52 |
| 3 | Melbourne Victory | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 49 | 32 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 19 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 17 | 47 |
| 4 | Adelaide United | 26 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 32 | 29 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 41 |
| 5 | Wellington Phoenix | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 43 | 36 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 20 | 7 | 37 |
| 6 | Melbourne City | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 32 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 37 |
| 7 | Newcastle Jets | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 38 | 36 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 22 | 21 | 2 | 32 |
| 8 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 42 | 53 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 23 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 25 | 30 | -11 | 24 |
| 9 | Brisbane Roar | 26 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 35 | 66 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 31 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 19 | 35 | -31 | 18 |
| 10 | Central Coast Mariners | 26 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 31 | 65 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 35 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 30 | -34 | 13 |
