Olympia Warriors vs Riverside Olympic: Match guide and preview

Both crews have had ample time to rest since their last exertion in an official match. Let's wish for an animated match!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artifical turf and that the visiting Riverside Olympic have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artifical turf is 0-0-4 (win-draw-loss) from four matches.

Olympia Warriors form and stats

Olympia Warriors's struggle is real here at Warrior Park with only 7 points collected from 9 Npl Tasmania games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-1-6. The season ticket holders are starting to dread their visits here at Warrior Park, with the home team losing four in a row. They have not avoided a defeat here since the Glenorchy Knights game.

Warriors travelled for their previous game, a trip to Glenorchy Knights that ended 0-0.

Ahead of that match, Olympia Warriors lost 2-3 at home to Launceston City.

Warriors have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Warrior Park with 15 goals in 9 league matches. Defensively there's plenty of potential for improvement as Olympia Warriors have allowed the opposition to score 24 goals here at Warrior Park.

Riverside Olympic form and stats

There's been little loot from Riverside Olympic's travels as they have only collected 0 points from 7 away games in the Npl Tasmania. Riverside Olympic only have 0 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 0 draws. Riverside Olympic are still without points from their Npl Tasmania away games. 7 games, 7 defeats. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Riverside, who have now gone 18 games without a victory. The Kingborough Lions game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Riverside, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 2-4 versus Kingborough Lions (placed 4th). As you can tell from the result, the match against Kingborough Lions was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?

A loss against Glenorchy Knights was the result prior to that, in a home game.

Riverside Olympic have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 7 league away games 10 goals have been scored. Riverside Olympic can't defend away. 27 goals have been scored by the opposition in 7 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The latest H2H game ended Riverside Olympic - Warriors 1-2, played this season. Statistics for the prior seven meetings between these two teams are: seven wins for Warriors, zero draws and zero wins for Riverside Olympic. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: zero games.

Olympia Warriors missing players

Riverside Olympic missing players