National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's APIA Leichhardt Tigers or Central Coast Mariners that keep their silverware dream alive.
Central Coast Mariners play their home fixtures on grass, while this game occurs on artifical turf. Up to date results for Central Coast Mariners when featuring on artifical turf are 1 win, 0 draws and 0 defeats from one match. They have scored 1 goal and conceded 0 times on these occasions.
Central Coast Mariners could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a A-League game only three sleeps ago.
APIA Leichhardt Tigers form and stats
Leichhardt was eliminated in the quarter-finals last season in the Ffa Cup.APIA Leichhardt Tigers have played 9 New South Wales games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 3-2-4 (wins-draws-losses).
Leichhardt's previous game was a Ffa Cup match also played at home, ending 2-1 versus Western Sydney Wanderers. The home side are looking to build on that result.
In the game before, an away victory in the Ffa Cup match versus Cooma Tigers (after extra-time) with a 3-0 scoreline.Leichhardt has scored 12 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. On the other hand, Leichhardt have conceded 11 goals.
Central Coast Mariners form and stats
Mariners was sent out of Ffa Cup in the semi-finals last season.Central Coast Mariners are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the A-League, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).
The Mariners goalkeeper Mark Birighitti is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 225 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Goddard and Božanić scored in Mariners's previous match, the home game against Western Sydney Wanderers that ended 2-0. Midfield player Božanić was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.85/10. Božanić scored one goal, hit three key passes and had 50 successful passes (of 59 total).
That result followed a home victory 2-0 versus Sydney in the A-League.The visiting Mariners have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 3 goals from 3 games. Central Coast Mariners have conceded 4 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  B. Powell 4 goals |  F. Parisi 3 goals |  P. Kekeris 3 goals |
APIA Leichhardt Tigers missing players
Central Coast Mariners missing players
| APIA Leichhardt Tigers | Central Coast Mariners | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 7 | Won | W | 6 | 11 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 6 | ||
| 10 | 5 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 37 | 24 | Scored | S | 14 | 29 | ||
| 32 | 18 | Conceded | C | 14 | 28 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 57% | 76% | ||
| 60% | 64% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 7% | 16% | ||
| 16% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 56% | 71% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 14% | Clean Sheets | C S | 21% | 28% | ||
| 24% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 32% | ||
| 6.2 | 6.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.8 | 5.2 | ||
| 5 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 4.7 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.6 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 9.4 | 10.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.8 | 13.1 | ||
| 3.9 | 4.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.6 | 5 | ||
| 30% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 18% | 23% | ||
| 10.6 | 9.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.5 | 11.9 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 4.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Blacktown City | 17 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 36 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 19 | 36 |
| 2 | Sydney United | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 32 |
| 3 | Rockdale City Suns | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 28 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 27 |
| 4 | Manly United | 17 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 27 |
| 5 | Sydney Olympic | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 22 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 24 |
| 6 | Mt Druitt Town | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 19 | -4 | 23 |
| 7 | Wollongong Wolves | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 33 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 17 | -10 | 22 |
| 8 | APIA Leichhardt Tigers | 17 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | -1 | 21 |
| 9 | Marconi Stallions | 17 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 24 | 25 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 10 | -1 | 19 |
| 10 | North Shore Mariners | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 32 | 31 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 16 |
| 11 | Sutherland Sharks | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 32 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | -13 | 14 |
| 12 | Sydney II | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 29 | 44 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 18 | -15 | 14 |
| 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 United | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| 2 | Macarthur | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 3 | Melbourne Victory | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 4 | Central Coast Mariners | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Melbourne City | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 6 | Newcastle Jets | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 5 |
| 8 | Perth Glory | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Wellington Phoenix | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 4 |
| 10 | Adelaide United | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 3 |
| 11 | Sydney | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -3 | 2 |
| 12 | Brisbane Roar | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | -5 | 1 |