National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Sydney Olympic or Sydney that keep their silverware dream alive.
Sydney could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a A-League game only four sleeps ago. That game, against Western Sydney Wanderers, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Sydney.
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Sydney Olympic form and stats
Olympic was eliminated in the 7th round last season in the Ffa Cup.The overall New South Wales stats at home this season for Sydney Olympic are 3-1-4 (wins-draws-losses).
Sydney Olympic's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-1 versus Mt Druitt Town.
Before that match, a NSW FFA Cup Preliminary win away at Manly United.Olympic aren't scoring a lot here at Belmore Sports Ground in the league, with only 7 goals from 8 games. On the other hand, Olympic have conceded 8 goals.
Sydney form and stats
They also participated in Ffa Cup last season. This ended in the 16th finals.The story so far for the visiting team on their A-League travels is 0 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats.
Sydney are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 0-0 draw at Western Sydney Wanderers. Anthony Caceres got a match rating of 8.65 in that game, top player of the team. Caceres hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 63 successful passes (of 71 total).
It was a A-League defeat before that one as the away game against Melbourne City wasn't a success with a 1-3 loss.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Macarthur in just three days.
It's early days yet, but Sydney has scored 0 and conceded 0 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  J. Madonis 5 goals | B. Van Meurs 2 goals | B. Cholakian 2 goals |
Sydney Olympic missing players
Sydney missing players
| Sydney Olympic | Sydney | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 12 | 4 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 5 | ||
| 52 | 9 | Scored | S | 20 | 36 | ||
| 25 | 9 | Conceded | C | 16 | 23 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 68% | 40% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 68% | ||
| 48% | 30% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 46% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 10% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 38% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 12% | ||
| 48% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 62% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 30% | Clean Sheets | C S | 31% | 40% | ||
| 24% | 30% | Failed to Score | F T | 15% | 16% | ||
| 5.5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 7.6 | 6.8 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 4.9 | ||
| 1.9 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | ||
| 10.1 | 9.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.5 | 14.8 | ||
| 3.9 | 3.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.6 | 5.6 | ||
| 32% | 24% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 26% | ||
| 8.8 | 8.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.5 | 13.6 | ||
| 4 | 3.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 4.8 | ||
| 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 | Melbourne City | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Melbourne Victory | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Adelaide United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Perth Glory | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Sydney | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Central Coast Mariners | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Macarthur | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Newcastle Jets | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Wellington Phoenix | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Brisbane Roar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 12 | Western United | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |