Adelaide City vs NE MetroStars match preview

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Competition: Australia Npl South Australian
Date: Fri 17.May
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Adelaide City Park (5500 seats)

Struggling Adelaide City will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying NE MetroStars in the upcoming league round. It’s 10th vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.

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Adelaide City form and stats

The story so far for Adelaide City at their home stadium (Adelaide City Park) is 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats. Adelaide City has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager D. Mori and the players.

The fans are hoping that Adelaide City will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-5 away loss in the Npl South Australian game against Adelaide Comets. Preceding that match was the home game against Para Hills Knights that was lost 1-2.

The Adelaide City fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 8 goals in 5 matches. Adelaide City have conceded 9 from these games.

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NE MetroStars form and stats

As the visiting team NE MetroStars, who have the most scored goals (15) away in Npl South Australian, have produced an overall stat of 4-1-3 so far.

NE MetroStars are travelling after their nice 4-1 home win in the Npl South Australian against West Adelaide. Preceding that game was the away victory against Adelaide Raiders with the score of 1-0.

NE MetroStars has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches this season, 15 goals from 8 games. NE MetroStars have conceded 11 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head totals (for the last five meetings): Adelaide City won 3 games, 0 matches ended with a draw and NE MetroStars has 2 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 1 / 4

Top Goalscorers

Adelaide City missing players

NE MetroStars missing players

Adelaide City NE MetroStars
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs low Away Total
9 5 1 Played 2 8 9
2 2 0 Won 2 4 5
3 1 1 Drew 0 1 1
4 2 0 Lost 0 3 3
13 8 2 Scored 6 15 19
22 9 2 Conceded 1 11 12
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 100% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 100% 88% 89%
89% 80% 100% Over 2.5 100% 62% 67%
67% 60% 100% Over 3.5 50% 50% 56%
22% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 25% 33%
56% 60% 100% BTTS 50% 62% 67%
11% 20% 0% Clean Sheets 50% 25% 22%
33% 20% 0% Failed To Score 0% 12% 11%
 
3.4 3 4 Corners For (avg) 6 3.9 3.7
5.1 6.2 10 Corners Against (avg) 5.5 6.5 5.9
2.5 2.2 4 Yellow Cards (avg) 0.5 2 2.1
3 0 0 Red Cards 0 1 1
Key stats this season:
  • Adelaide City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • Adelaide City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • All of Adelaide City's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • NE MetroStars haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Adelaide City
All Npl South Australian Club Friendlies
All Home Away
23-03-19 NSA Adelaide City 2 - 2 Campbelltown City
08-04-19 NSA Adelaide City 3 - 1 Adelaide Olympic
13-04-19 NSA West Adelaide 3 - 0 Adelaide City
25-04-19 NSA Adelaide City 1 - 2 Para Hills Knights
10-05-19 NSA Adelaide Comets 5 - 0 Adelaide City
17-05-19 NSA Adelaide City 11:00 NE MetroStars
25-05-19 NSA Croydon Kings 05:30 Adelaide City
31-05-19 NSA South Adelaide Panthers 07:30 Adelaide City
07-06-19 NSA Adelaide City 08:30 West Adelaide
15-06-19 NSA Adelaide United || 03:30 Adelaide City
NE MetroStars
All Npl South Australian Club Friendlies
All Home Away
23-03-19 NSA Croydon Kings 1 - 1 NE MetroStars
05-04-19 NSA Campbelltown City 2 - 0 NE MetroStars
14-04-19 NSA Adelaide United || 3 - 2 NE MetroStars
27-04-19 NSA Adelaide Raiders 0 - 1 NE MetroStars
11-05-19 NSA NE MetroStars 4 - 1 West Adelaide
17-05-19 NSA Adelaide City 11:00 NE MetroStars
25-05-19 NSA NE MetroStars 05:30 Para Hills Knights
01-06-19 NSA NE MetroStars 03:30 Adelaide Blue Eagles
08-06-19 NSA NE MetroStars 05:30 Adelaide United ||
15-06-19 NSA NE MetroStars 03:30 South Adelaide Panthers

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Adelaide Blue Eagles 9 6 2 1 21 11 6 4 2 0 14 6 3 2 0 1 7 5 10 20
2 Adelaide Comets 9 6 1 2 19 12 5 3 1 1 11 7 4 3 0 1 8 5 7 19
3 Campbelltown City 9 5 2 2 22 13 5 3 0 2 13 6 4 2 2 0 9 7 9 17
4 NE MetroStars 9 5 1 3 19 12 1 1 0 0 4 1 8 4 1 3 15 11 7 16
5 Adelaide Raiders 9 4 1 4 15 12 4 0 1 3 2 7 5 4 0 1 13 5 3 13
6 Adelaide United || 9 4 1 4 18 17 5 2 1 2 12 12 4 2 0 2 6 5 1 13
7 Croydon Kings 9 2 5 2 15 12 5 1 3 1 8 8 4 1 2 1 7 4 3 11
8 Adelaide Olympic 9 3 2 4 15 18 6 3 1 2 12 10 3 0 1 2 3 8 -3 11
9 Para Hills Knights 9 2 4 3 10 14 5 1 2 2 4 7 4 1 2 1 6 7 -4 10
10 Adelaide City 9 2 3 4 13 22 5 2 1 2 8 9 4 0 2 2 5 13 -9 9
11 West Adelaide 9 2 1 6 13 22 2 1 0 1 5 7 7 1 1 5 8 15 -9 7
12 South Adelaide Panthers 9 1 1 7 13 28 5 1 0 4 7 13 4 0 1 3 6 15 -15 4

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