Avenger Park: Avondale Heights vs St. Albans Saints Npl Victoria preview

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Competition: Australia Npl Victoria
Competition: Sat 31.July
Match begins: 05:00 (UTC)
Venue: Avenger Park (1000 seats)

Avondale Heights - St. Albans Saints. 1st place against 14th place. Nothing is certain - get a full match preview here!

Insights:
  • Avondale Heights have the most scored goals (37) in Npl Victoria
  • St. Albans Saints have the fewest scored goals (9) in Npl Victoria

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Avondale Heights form and stats

20 points is a decent return from 9 Npl Victoria games here at Avenger Park for Avondale Heights. The data says 6 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss. Avondale has a nice streak going on as they have played 14 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Green Gully defeat 140 days ago.

Happy days for Avondale in their previous game, a Npl Victoria match away at Eastern Lions (placed 11th) that ended with a 4-0 victory. As indicated by the result mentioned above, Avondale played a great game against Eastern Lions and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.

Before that, Avondale had a home game versus Bentleigh Greens which ended with a victory 3-1.

Goals decide football matches and Avondale are scoring many of them at home; 18 on target from 9 league matches. On the other hand, Avondale have conceded 9 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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St. Albans Saints form and stats

St. Albans Saints have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Npl Victoria, after 1-3-5 (9 played). The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for St. Albans Saints, who have now gone 14 games without a victory. The Melbourne Knights game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.

J. Monek was the last player to score for the away team. St. Albans Saints haven't scored a league goal in the last 216 minutes.

Albans's previous game was their home loss versus Dandenong Thunder (0-1).

A 0-4 loss hosting Port Melbourne before that.

The attacking power of St. Albans Saints when travelling is not overwhelming with 5 goals scored from 9 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. For Albans, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H meeting was St. Albans Saints - Avondale 0-3, played this season.

Top Goalscorers

Avondale HeightsS. Valentini
S. Valentini
12 goals
AvondaleL. Boland
L. Boland
6 goals
Avondale HeightsY. Ahmed
Y. Ahmed
5 goals

Avondale Heights missing players

St. Albans Saints missing players

Avondale Heights St. Albans Saints
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 9 3 Played P 2 9 17
11 6 2 Won W 0 1 2
5 2 0 Drew D 1 3 4
1 1 1 Lost L 1 5 11
37 18 5 Scored S 0 5 9
14 9 2 Conceded C 6 19 37
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 89% 94%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 78% 82%
53% 56% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 44% 53%
29% 22% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 22% 24%
12% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 22% 12%
53% 56% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 44% 41%
41% 33% 67% Clean Sheets C S 50% 11% 6%
6% 11% 33% Failed to Score F T 100% 56% 59%
 
5.2 6.3 6.3 Corners for (avg) C F 2 3.8 3.2
3.7 3 2.7 Corners against (avg) C A 4 6.8 6.1
2.3 2.2 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.8 2.4
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
12.6 12.4 13.7 Shots (avg) S ( 3.5 7 6.5
5.8 6 8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0.5 2.1 2.5
39% 33% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 26% 21%
Key stats in Npl Victoria this season:
  • All of Avondale Heights's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Avondale Heights have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Avondale Heights have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Avondale Heights have scored more than double the goals of St. Albans Saints.
  • Avondale Heights have the fewest conceded goals (14) in Npl Victoria
  • Avondale Heights have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Npl Victoria
  • Avondale Heights have the most points (20) at home in Npl Victoria
  • Avondale Heights have the most scored goals (37) in Npl Victoria
  • Avondale Heights have the most scored goals in the second half (24) in Npl Victoria
  • Avondale Heights have the the best goal difference (+23) in Npl Victoria
  • Avondale Heights have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
  • Avondale Heights have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Avondale Heights haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Avondale Heights is in the best form (5-1-0)
  • St. Albans Saints have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • St. Albans Saints have the fewest scored goals (5) away in Npl Victoria
  • St. Albans Saints have the fewest scored goals (9) in Npl Victoria
  • St. Albans Saints have the fewest scored goals in the first half (2) in Npl Victoria
  • St. Albans Saints have the most conceded goals (37) in Npl Victoria
  • St. Albans Saints have the most conceded goals in the first half (18) in Npl Victoria
  • St. Albans Saints have the the worst goal difference (-14) away in Npl Victoria
  • St. Albans Saints have the the worst goal difference (-28) in Npl Victoria
  • St. Albans Saints is in the worst form (0-1-5)

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Avondale Heights 17 11 5 1 37 14 9 6 2 1 18 9 8 5 3 0 19 5 23 38
2 Oakleigh Cannons 17 9 4 4 35 21 9 5 3 1 22 12 8 4 1 3 13 9 14 31
3 Hume City 17 9 3 5 34 20 8 6 1 1 20 5 9 3 2 4 14 15 14 30
4 Bentleigh Greens 17 9 3 5 29 22 8 3 2 3 12 12 9 6 1 2 17 10 7 30
5 Heidelberg United 17 7 6 4 23 21 8 3 3 2 10 10 9 4 3 2 13 11 2 27
6 Port Melbourne 17 7 5 5 28 18 9 3 3 3 14 9 8 4 2 2 14 9 10 26
7 Melbourne Knights 17 7 5 5 24 24 9 5 1 3 11 8 8 2 4 2 13 16 0 26
8 Dandenong Thunder 17 7 4 6 29 25 9 5 2 2 18 12 8 2 2 4 11 13 4 25
9 South Melbourne 17 6 6 5 18 17 8 3 3 2 9 7 9 3 3 3 9 10 1 24
10 Green Gully 17 5 5 7 23 23 8 2 3 3 14 13 9 3 2 4 9 10 0 20
11 Eastern Lions 17 4 3 10 17 32 8 2 1 5 7 13 9 2 2 5 10 19 -15 15
12 Altona Magic 17 1 8 8 17 31 9 0 5 4 9 16 8 1 3 4 8 15 -14 11
13 Dandenong City 17 2 5 10 18 36 9 1 3 5 11 18 8 1 2 5 7 18 -18 11
14 St. Albans Saints 17 2 4 11 9 37 8 1 1 6 4 18 9 1 3 5 5 19 -28 10

Read more about Npl Victoria

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.