Season ticket holders at Croudace Bay Soccer Fields haven’t seen too many victories this season, with Valentine languishing in the 8th position so far. The guesting Hamilton Olympic will be hopeful to defend their higher league position in this one.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Valentine form and stats
Valentine's struggle is real here at Croudace Bay Soccer Fields with only 4 points collected from 6 Northern Nsw games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-1-4.
The Valentine fans got no joy from their last match, a Northern Nsw game also here at Croudace Bay Soccer Fields: A 0-1 defeat against Maitland (placed 3rd). Before that, Valentine played out a draw 2-2 when visiting Adamstown Rosebuds.
Valentine have scored 5 league goals here from 6 matches, not a lot. As for conceded goals, Valentine's unpleasant statistic is 15 goals surrendered.
Hamilton Olympic form and stats
3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss. That’s the product of Hamilton Olympic playing as the away team in the Northern Nsw this season.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 2-0 against Adamstown Rosebuds in their previous game. The game before that, was lost at home, a 1-3 defeat against Edgeworth Eagles.
Hamilton are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 6 away goals from 5 games (in the league). Hamilton have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Hamilton Olympic - Valentine 2-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): Valentine zero wins, five draws and Hamilton Olympic four victories. As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two games had two or less.Valentine missing players
Hamilton Olympic missing players
| Valentine | Hamilton Olympic | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 1 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 12 | 5 | 0 | Scored | S | 3 | 6 | 23 |
| 26 | 15 | 4 | Conceded | C | 1 | 5 | 18 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 75% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 60% | 83% |
| 58% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 40% | 67% |
| 58% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 58% |
| 17% | 17% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 42% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | 58% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 40% | 33% |
| 42% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 8% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3 | 1.8 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1 | 1.6 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 95 | 30 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 46 | 143 |
| 37 | 16 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 21 | 69 |
| 24% | 12% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 24% | 30% |
- Hamilton Olympic haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Valentine has the most conceded goals in the second half (18) in Northern Nsw
- Valentine have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Valentine have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Valentine have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Valentine 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 | Edgeworth Eagles | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 16 | 30 |
| 2 | Broadmeadow Magic | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 25 |
| 3 | Maitland | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 22 |
| 4 | Hamilton Olympic | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 20 |
| 5 | Charlestown City Blues | 12 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 20 |
| 6 | Lambton Jaffas | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 18 |
| 7 | Weston Bears | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 18 |
| 8 | Valentine | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | -14 | 12 |
| 9 | Adamstown Rosebuds | 12 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 31 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -20 | 5 |
| 10 | Lake Macquarie | 12 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 31 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 22 | -21 | 4 |