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- Blacktown City is in the best form (4-1-1) in New South Wales
- Wollongong Wolves have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in New South Wales
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Wollongong Wolves have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 5-1-4 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches.
Blacktown City and Wollongong Wolves should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Blacktown City form and stats
The New South Wales stats at home this season for Blacktown City are 6-1-3 (wins-draws-losses).
Happy days for Blacktown City in their previous game, a fixture away at Sutherland Sharks (placed 12th) that ended with a 1-0 victory.
In the preceding match a 6-1 victory visiting Manly United.The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Blacktown City home games with this odds we find 5 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 4 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 2 matches were won by at least two goals.
12 goals have been conceded.
Wollongong Wolves form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Wollongong Wolves so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-6 (win-draw-lose).
Wollongong delivered a 0-0 draw playing at home against Marconi Stallions (placed 3rd) in their previous game.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Mt Druitt Town wasn't a success with a 3-4 loss.Betting fact: Both sides have scored at least once in 9 of this club's latest 11 league matches.
Wollongong Wolves are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 13 away goals from 10 games (in the league). It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Wollongong have conceded 17 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The most up to date registered match between these teams is the Wollongong Wolves - Blacktown City 3-1 played previously this season. Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Blacktown wins - draws - Wollongong Wolves wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Smylie 8 goals |  T. Major 6 goals | D. Askew 4 goals |
Blacktown City missing players
Wollongong Wolves missing players
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 11 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| 39 | 20 | 8 | Scored | S | 1 | 13 | 33 |
| 22 | 12 | 2 | Conceded | C | 5 | 17 | 35 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 70% | 70% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 80% | 85% |
| 60% | 70% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 40% | 60% |
| 40% | 40% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 30% | 45% |
| 15% | 20% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 25% |
| 60% | 60% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 40% | 60% |
| 30% | 30% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 20% |
| 10% | 10% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 40% | 25% |
| 6.2 | 7.2 | 9.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3 | 4.7 | 4.6 |
| 4.2 | 4 | 2.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.5 | 6.6 | 6.1 |
| 1.4 | 1.5 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 2 | 2.2 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 12.7 | 11.1 | 13.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4.5 | 8.3 | 9.6 |
| 5.1 | 4.4 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.5 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
| 38% | 45% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 35% | 37% |
| 8.8 | 8.5 | 5.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 4 | 9.1 | 12.2 |
| 3.7 | 3.6 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 4.1 | 5 |
- Blacktown City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Blacktown City have the the best goal difference (+17) in New South Wales
- Blacktown City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Blacktown City is in the best form (4-1-1) in New South Wales
- Wollongong Wolves have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in New South Wales
- Wollongong Wolves haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sydney Olympic | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 38 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 13 | 11 | 38 |
| 2 | Blacktown City | 20 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 39 | 22 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 17 | 37 |
| 3 | Marconi Stallions | 20 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 40 | 28 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 25 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 37 |
| 4 | Manly United | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 29 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 8 | 35 |
| 5 | Sydney II | 20 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 52 | 40 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 24 | 21 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 19 | 12 | 32 |
| 6 | APIA Leichhardt Tigers | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 38 | 30 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 25 | 8 | 32 |
| 7 | Rockdale City Suns | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 36 | 32 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 32 |
| 8 | Sydney United | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 27 | 37 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 20 | -10 | 26 |
| 9 | Wollongong Wolves | 20 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 33 | 35 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 18 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 17 | -2 | 19 |
| 10 | North Shore Mariners | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 29 | 52 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 28 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 24 | -23 | 17 |
| 11 | Mt Druitt Town | 21 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 34 | 52 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 23 | -18 | 16 |
| 12 | Sutherland Sharks | 20 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 23 | 42 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 22 | -19 | 11 |
