An important duel in the bottom section of the league table, with both teams experiencing more worry than joy. This match is a classic “six-pointer” with the home team placed 9th and the visitors in 7th place.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Clarence United form and stats
Clarence United's struggle is real here at Wentworth Park 2 with only 3 points collected from 7 Npl Tasmania games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-0-6. All in all it has been a very rough period for Clarence United who hasn’t won a game in their last 15 attempts. Their previous win was against Riverside Olympic, 124 days ago. Clarence United are slowly digging their own grave here at Wentworth Park 2 with the depressing streak of not having won a home game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the Riverside Olympic match.
Clarence United's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-4 versus Launceston City. Prior to that, an away loss at South Hobart.
Despite playing at their own arena the home team are massive underdogs in this game. The home fans will enjoy their drinks and snacks knowing that the chances of points are very slim. When Clarence United have been in this position before, they have won 1, drawn 1 and lost 6 from eight games. 6 defeats by at least two goals.
Clarence United have scored 3 goals here in 7 league matches, a depressing statistic. Clarence United have allowed more than three conceded goals on average in their home matches so far.
Launceston City form and stats
3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Launceston City playing as the away team in the Npl Tasmania this season.
Launceston City play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 4-1 victory visiting Clarence United. Prior to that match, the Launceston City manager faced defeat when travelling to Glenorchy Knights and losing 0-3.
As mentioned earlier, Launceston City will not be satisfied unless they get maximum points from this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 2 wins (1 by two or more goals winning margin), 0 draws and 0 surprising defeats.
The Launceston City manager has got the team scoring on the road, with 13 away goals in 6 league matches. Launceston City have conceded 8 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Clarence United - Launceston City 1-4 was the story when these teams last met, earlier this season. As for the last six games between these two teams, there's 0 Clarence United victories, 0 draws and 6 Launceston City wins. 6 of these games ended with three goals or more, 0 matches with two goals or less.Clarence United missing players
Launceston City missing players
| Clarence United | Launceston City | |||||
| Total | Home | Home vs | Statistic | Away vs | Away | Total |
| 23 | 11 | 2 | Played | 2 | 11 | 22 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 22 | 10 | 1 | Lost | 1 | 4 | 11 |
| 8 | 5 | 2 | Scored | 3 | 21 | 36 |
| 152 | 64 | 3 | Conceded | 3 | 18 | 42 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | 100% | 91% | 95% |
| 96% | 91% | 50% | Over 1.5 | 100% | 82% | 86% |
| 91% | 91% | 50% | Over 2.5 | 100% | 73% | 82% |
| 87% | 91% | 50% | Over 3.5 | 0% | 45% | 50% |
| 74% | 73% | 0% | Over 4.5 | 0% | 36% | 23% |
| 30% | 36% | 50% | BTTS | 100% | 55% | 50% |
| 4% | 9% | 50% | Clean Sheets | 0% | 36% | 27% |
| 65% | 55% | 0% | Failed To Score | 0% | 18% | 27% |
| 2.4 | 3 | 4.5 | Corners For (avg) | 9 | 6.7 | 5.8 |
| 9.2 | 10.1 | 6 | Corners Against (avg) | 3.5 | 6.1 | 5.5 |
| 0.9 | 0.7 | 1 | Yellow Cards (avg) | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Clarence United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Clarence United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Clarence United have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Clarence United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Launceston City have created more than twice as many corners as Clarence United.
- Launceston City have scored more than double the goals of Clarence United.
| 22-06-19 | | Clarence United | 0 - 12 | Devonport City |
| 06-07-19 | | Launceston City | 4 - 0 | Clarence United |
| 13-07-19 | | Clarence United | 1 - 5 | Kingborough Lions |
| 20-07-19 | | Riverside Olympic | 2 - 0 | Clarence United |
| 27-07-19 | | Clarence United | 0 - 4 | Hobart Zebras |
| 03-08-19 | | Glenorchy Knights | 8 - 0 | Clarence United |
| 10-08-19 | | Olympia Warriors | 7 - 1 | Clarence United |
| 18-08-19 | | South Hobart | 13 - 1 | Clarence United |
| 24-08-19 | | Clarence United | 1 - 4 | Launceston City |
| 01-09-19 | | Clarence United | 04:30 | Devonport City |
| 06-07-19 | | Launceston City | 4 - 0 | Clarence United |
| 13-07-19 | | Launceston City | 0 - 4 | Devonport City |
| 20-07-19 | | Kingborough Lions | 0 - 2 | Launceston City |
| 27-07-19 | | South Hobart | 4 - 1 | Launceston City |
| 03-08-19 | | Riverside Olympic | 2 - 1 | Launceston City |
| 10-08-19 | | Launceston City | 2 - 2 | South Hobart |
| 17-08-19 | | Glenorchy Knights | 3 - 0 | Launceston City |
| 24-08-19 | | Clarence United | 1 - 4 | Launceston City |
| 31-08-19 | | Launceston City | 06:30 | Hobart Zebras |
| 07-09-19 | | Olympia Warriors | 04:15 | Launceston City |
| 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 | Devonport City | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 31 | 34 |
| 2 | Olympia Warriors | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 42 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 29 | 29 |
| 3 | South Hobart | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 48 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 9 | 32 | 26 |
| 4 | Hobart Zebras | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 43 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 5 | 23 | 20 |
| 5 | Glenorchy Knights | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 17 |
| 6 | Kingborough Lions | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 23 | 32 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 19 | -9 | 16 |
| 7 | Launceston City | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 15 |
| 8 | Riverside Olympic | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 38 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -28 | 6 |
| 9 | Clarence United | 14 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 93 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 39 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 54 | -89 | 3 |