Jack Smith Park: Croydon Kings vs NE MetroStars Npl South Australian preview

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Competition: Australia Npl South Australian
Competition: Sat 08.August
Match begins: 05:00 (UTC)
Venue: Jack Smith Park (3000 seats)

Croydon Kings will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 4 points behind NE MetroStars.

Croydon Kings and NE MetroStars 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.

This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.

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Croydon Kings form and stats

Croydon Kings have played 5 Npl South Australian games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 2-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Happy days for Croydon Kings in their previous game, a Npl South Australian match away at Adelaide Olympic (placed 5th) that ended with a 4-2 victory. Ahead of that match, Croydon Kings lost 1-3 at home to Cumberland United.

A goal frenzy last time out for Croydon, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Adelaide Olympic. Fun stuff to watch!

Croydon Kings have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Jack Smith Park with 9 goals in 5 league matches. Croydon have conceded 9 from these games.

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NE MetroStars form and stats

The seven points NE MetroStars have gathered from their first three away trips in the Npl South Australian is impressive and could lead to great things if the form continues.

MetroStars's last game was the home draw against Adelaide United || (2-2). Preceding that game was the away victory against Campbelltown City with the score of 1-0.

The NE MetroStars manager R. Saraceno has seen his team go crazy on the road this season, having scored 9 goals in 3 league matches away. NE MetroStars are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 0 away goals have been conceded so far.

Head 2 Head

As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's three Croydon victories, two draws and two NE MetroStars wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

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Croydon Kings NE MetroStars
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
9 5 1 Played P 1 3 9
3 2 1 Won W 1 2 4
3 2 0 Drew D 0 1 4
3 1 0 Lost L 0 0 1
16 9 2 Scored S 8 9 20
16 9 1 Conceded C 0 0 11
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 67% 89%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 33% 78%
78% 80% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 33% 44%
33% 40% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 33% 33%
22% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 100% 33% 22%
100% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 44%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 100% 44%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 22%
 
3.3 3.4 1 Corners for (avg) C F 6 6.7 4.1
3.3 4.2 3 Corners against (avg) C A 5 5.3 5.2
1.9 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.3 2.1
2 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
93 50 20 Total Shots T S 19 29 110
48 28 9 Shots on Target S O 15 21 62
33% 32% 22% Goal Efficiency G E 53% 43% 32%
Key stats in Npl South Australian this season:
  • All of Croydon Kings's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Croydon Kings has the fewest clean sheets (0)
  • Croydon Kings has the most matches over the total-line (7)
  • Croydon Kings have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Croydon Kings have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Croydon Kings have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Croydon Kings haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • NE MetroStars has the fewest conceded goals (0) away
  • NE MetroStars has the most scored goals (20)
  • NE MetroStars has the the best goal difference (+9)
  • NE MetroStars has the the best goal difference (+9) away
  • NE MetroStars have not yet lost a game away.
  • NE MetroStars have won significantly more corners away than at home.
  • NE MetroStars is in the best form (3-3-0)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 NE MetroStars 9 4 4 1 20 11 6 2 3 1 11 11 3 2 1 0 9 0 9 16
2 Adelaide Comets 9 5 1 3 14 9 2 1 0 1 1 1 7 4 1 2 13 8 5 16
3 Adelaide Raiders 9 4 3 2 11 9 3 2 1 0 3 0 6 2 2 2 8 9 2 15
4 Campbelltown City 9 4 2 3 13 12 4 2 1 1 8 6 5 2 1 2 5 6 1 14
5 Adelaide Olympic 9 4 1 4 15 13 4 1 1 2 8 8 5 3 0 2 7 5 2 13
6 Cumberland United 9 4 1 4 15 22 5 3 1 1 10 13 4 1 0 3 5 9 -7 13
7 Adelaide Blue Eagles 9 3 3 3 12 11 5 2 2 1 5 3 4 1 1 2 7 8 1 12
8 Croydon Kings 9 3 3 3 16 16 5 2 2 1 9 9 4 1 1 2 7 7 0 12
9 Adelaide City 8 3 2 3 10 9 5 3 0 2 8 6 3 0 2 1 2 3 1 11
10 Modbury Jets 9 3 1 5 10 16 6 3 0 3 7 9 3 0 1 2 3 7 -6 10
11 Adelaide United || 8 1 4 3 12 16 3 1 1 1 5 5 5 0 3 2 7 11 -4 7
12 Para Hills Knights 9 2 1 6 9 13 5 2 1 2 6 5 4 0 0 4 3 8 -4 7

Read more about Npl South Australian

The National Premier Leagues (NPL) is the second level of football in Australia. It has eight regional divisions in which the number of teams vary. In total close to 100 teams compete in the NPL. It is currently not possible to promote to the A-League, but there is a relegation system in most divisions.