Western United are willing to overlook the league table before this game against Melbourne Victory. Here's all you need to know before the game!
- Western United have the most conceded goals (18) in A-League
- Melbourne Victory have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
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.
Western United form and stats
Western United have collected 4 points from their A-League home games so far after 1-1-2.
Western United's last game was hosting Western Sydney Wanderers (placed 2nd) and winning 1-0. The goalie Young was named most valuable player of the team in that game, scoring 8.01 out of ten. Young topped it up with a clean sheet.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Perth Glory (1-2).Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the A-League game versus Brisbane Roar in only four days. This game is also played here at AAMI Park.
The Western fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 4 matches.
Melbourne Victory form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their A-League travels is 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
It's the second away game in a row for Melbourne Victory, but there's smiles all around after the 1-0 victory versus Macarthur (placed 4th) last time out. Attacker D'Agostino got a player rating of 7.55 in the game. "Man of the match" D'Agostino hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Adelaide United wasn't a success with a 0-3 loss.Some information for sports bettors considering a bet on only one (or no) side scoring in this match: This club have played 6 consecutive league games with just one or no team finding the net.
Melbourne Victory have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (Western wins - draws - Melbourne Victory wins). As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  N. Milanovic 3 goals |  A. Prijović 2 goals |   C. Ikonomidis 2 goals |
Western United missing players
Melbourne Victory missing players
| Western United | Melbourne Victory | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 18 | 8 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 75% | 86% |
| 88% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 57% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 43% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 25% | 29% |
| 38% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 25% | 14% |
| 88% | 75% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 25% | 14% |
| 12% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 43% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 50% | 57% |
| 4.8 | 5.8 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 5.8 | 5.3 |
| 5.8 | 3.8 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 4.8 | 3.6 |
| 2.5 | 2.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 1.5 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.8 | 15.2 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 16.8 | 14.6 |
| 4.9 | 6.2 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 3.8 | 4 |
| 31% | 20% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 60% | 27% | 29% |
| 14.6 | 11.5 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 14 | 12.8 | 11.6 |
| 6.4 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4 | 3.7 |
- Melbourne Victory have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Western United have scored in all their matches so far.
- Western United have the most conceded goals (18) in A-League
- Western United have the the worst goal difference (-3) at home in A-League
- Western United have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- 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 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 16 |
| 2 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| 3 | Adelaide United | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 12 |
| 4 | Macarthur | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -1 | 11 |
| 5 | Central Coast Mariners | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| 6 | Wellington Phoenix | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | Brisbane Roar | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| 8 | Melbourne Victory | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 9 | Sydney | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 10 |
| 10 | Newcastle Jets | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 11 | Western United | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -6 | 7 |
| 12 | Perth Glory | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 11 | -6 | 6 |
