The visiting Maitland side are probably the strongest party at Lake Macquarie, as the guests own a 13 point lead from their nine league games this season.
- Lake Macquarie have the fewest scored goals (8) in Northern Nsw
- Maitland have the most clean sheets (4) in Northern Nsw
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Lake Macquarie and Maitland.
Lake Macquarie form and stats
Lake Macquarie, who have the fewest scored goals (8) in Northern Nsw, have collected 1 point from their Northern Nsw home games so far after 0-1-1. With three straight defeats the pressure is piling up on Lake Macquarie to get some points in this home game.
Macquarie faced defeat in their previous match, away at Charlestown City Blues (1-6). Lake Macquarie were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Heartbreak before that as Lake Macquarie lost 0-5 at Broadmeadow Magic's place.The home team are doomed in this game if you believe the odds offered on Maitland to win. Let's see if Lake Macquarie are capable of creating a surprise here by looking at their earlier home games as massive outsiders: 7 games found revealing 0 Macquarie wins, 2 draws and 5 defeats.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Lake Macquarie as they are travelling to their away game against Hamilton Olympic in the Northern NSW FFA Cup Preliminary. That match is three days after this one.
Early season league goal statistics from Lake Macquarie's 2 home games: 3 goals, 5 conceded.
Maitland form and stats
2 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Maitland, who have the most clean sheets (4) in Northern Nsw, playing as the away team in the Northern Nsw this season.
Maitland go into this game after a win, the home game against Cooks Hill United that ended 5-4. As you can tell from the result, the match against Cooks Hill United was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 9 goals, will the fun continue today?
A home win before that, celebrating 4-2 vs Hamilton Olympic.After this away game Maitland return home for a Northern NSW FFA Cup Preliminary game against Weston Bears. That game is only three sleeps after this.
The travelling fans enjoy Maitland's attacking play in away games, having scored 7 goals in 4 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Lake Macquarie zero wins, two draws and Maitland eight victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Lake Macquarie missing players
Maitland missing players
| Lake Macquarie | Maitland | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 2 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 27 |
| 25 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 75% | 89% |
| 88% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 89% |
| 75% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 78% |
| 62% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 67% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 44% |
| 62% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 50% | 56% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 50% | 44% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 25% | 11% |
| 3.2 | 4.5 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4 | 8.5 | 7.2 |
| 9 | 8 | 13 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 7 | 6.7 |
| 1.9 | 2.5 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 2.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5.2 | 3.5 | 3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 13.5 | 14.1 |
| 2.1 | 2 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 7.5 | 8.8 |
| 47% | 75% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 23% | 34% |
| 11.6 | 9.5 | 15 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6 | 9 | 11.8 |
| 5.9 | 3.5 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 3.5 | 4.8 |
- All of Lake Macquarie's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Lake Macquarie have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Lake Macquarie have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Lake Macquarie have the fewest scored goals (8) in Northern Nsw
- Lake Macquarie have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Northern Nsw
- Lake Macquarie have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Lake Macquarie have yet to win a game at home.
- Lake Macquarie haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Maitland have created more than twice as many corners as Lake Macquarie.
- Maitland have not yet lost a game away.
- Maitland have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Maitland have scored more than double the goals of Lake Macquarie.
- Maitland have the most clean sheets (4) in Northern Nsw
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Broadmeadow Magic | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 22 | 23 |
| 2 | Charlestown City Blues | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 15 | 22 |
| 3 | Maitland | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 20 |
| 4 | Lambton Jaffas | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| 5 | Hamilton Olympic | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 12 |
| 6 | Weston Bears | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Edgeworth Eagles | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 12 | -4 | 10 |
| 8 | Valentine | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -3 | 9 |
| 9 | Cooks Hill United | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 15 | -7 | 8 |
| 10 | Lake Macquarie | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 20 | -17 | 7 |
| 11 | Adamstown Rosebuds | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 19 | -26 | 1 |
