The visiting Croydon Kings side should be favourites in this visit to Adelaide United ||, as the away team holds a 19 point advantage from their 19 league games this season.
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!
Adelaide United || form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Npl South Australian this season. Adelaide United || have only managed 2 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses from their games here at Adelaide Shores Football Centre.
Adelaide are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Adelaide Raiders. Preceding that game was the away draw at Campbelltown City that finished 0-0.
Adelaide has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Adelaide defense is not exactly impregnable. 15 goals conceded from 9 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.
Croydon Kings form and stats
4 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses. That’s the product of Croydon Kings playing as the away team in the Npl South Australian this season. Croydon have been producing wins at home as well, producing a total of seven victories in a row regardless of arena. It’s been three wins in a row for Croydon on their travels, an amazing performance which inspire hopes of making this one the fourth consecutive victory.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 3-0 against Para Hills Knights in their previous game. That result followed a home victory 3-1 versus Adelaide Comets.
With an average of more than two away goals per league game away, Croydon are regular goalscorers on their travels. It's worth mentioning that 12 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Croydon have conceded 14 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Croydon Kings - Adelaide 1-1. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's zero Adelaide victories, two draws and one Croydon Kings win. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Adelaide United || missing players
Croydon Kings missing players
| Adelaide United || | Croydon Kings | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 19 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 23 | 10 | 0 | Scored | S | 8 | 20 | 41 |
| 30 | 15 | 9 | Conceded | C | 5 | 14 | 27 |
| 89% | 89% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 84% | 89% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 58% | 67% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 78% | 79% |
| 32% | 33% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 44% | 42% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 33% | 26% |
| 42% | 22% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 89% | 84% |
| 26% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 42% | 56% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 11% | 5% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 173 | 92 | 25 | Total Shots | T S | 30 | 89 | 201 |
| 74 | 42 | 7 | Shots on Target | S O | 14 | 46 | 111 |
| 31% | 24% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 57% | 43% | 37% |
- Adelaide United || has the fewest scored goals in the first half (6) in Npl South Australian
- Adelaide United || have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- All of Croydon Kings's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Croydon Kings has the fewest matches under the total-line (4) in Npl South Australian
- Croydon Kings has the most matches over the total-line (15) in Npl South Australian
- Croydon Kings have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Croydon Kings haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Croydon Kings is in the best form (6-0-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Adelaide Comets | 19 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 38 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 15 | 37 |
| 2 | Croydon Kings | 19 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 41 | 27 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 14 | 36 |
| 3 | NE MetroStars | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 46 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 9 | 18 | 35 |
| 4 | Campbelltown City | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 30 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 6 | 34 |
| 5 | Adelaide Raiders | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 24 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 18 | 0 | 28 |
| 6 | Cumberland United | 19 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 36 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 11 | -7 | 28 |
| 7 | Adelaide City | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 24 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 27 |
| 8 | Adelaide Blue Eagles | 19 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 22 | 22 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 0 | 24 |
| 9 | Adelaide Olympic | 19 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 28 | 30 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 10 | -2 | 24 |
| 10 | Adelaide United || | 19 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 23 | 30 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 15 | -7 | 17 |
| 11 | Modbury Jets | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 41 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 22 | -20 | 16 |
| 12 | Para Hills Knights | 19 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 36 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 23 | -21 | 8 |