The visiting Heidelberg United side should be favourites in this visit to Eastern Lions, as the away team holds a 4 point advantage from their seven league games this season.
- All of Eastern Lions's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Heidelberg United have not yet lost a game away.
Eastern Lions and Heidelberg United 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.
Eastern Lions form and stats
Three Npl Victoria home games done for Eastern Lions, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches.
No payout for Eastern Lions in their previous match, an away game at Avondale Heights that ended in defeat 0-2. Ahead of that match, Eastern won a home game hosting Hume City (2-0).
Eastern has scored 4 league goals at home this season, in 3 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Eastern defense is not exactly impregnable. 5 goals conceded from 3 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Heidelberg United form and stats
Playing away, Heidelberg United have won 2 games, drawn 2 and suffered 0 defeats in the Npl Victoria this season. Heidelberg has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Melbourne Knights at their stadium, the result 1-0.
Heidelberg has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 6 goals from 4 games. As opposed to that, Heidelberg United have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  C. Droustas 3 goals | G. Georgopoulos 2 goals | A. Fabris 1 goals |
Eastern Lions missing players
Heidelberg United missing players
| Eastern Lions | Heidelberg United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | 4 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 6 | 9 |
| 10 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 71% |
| 43% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 43% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 25% | 14% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 71% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 75% | 71% |
| 14% | 33% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 14% |
| 14% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3.3 | 3.3 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3 | 2.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7.7 | 8 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 7.8 | 8.4 |
| 3.3 | 3.7 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.8 | 4.3 |
| 30% | 36% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | 30% |
- All of Eastern Lions's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Eastern Lions haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Heidelberg United have not yet lost a game away.
- Heidelberg United have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Heidelberg United have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Heidelberg United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | South Melbourne | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| 2 | Avondale Heights | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 14 |
| 3 | Oakleigh Cannons | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 | Heidelberg United | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| 5 | Melbourne Knights | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| 6 | Hume City | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 11 |
| 7 | Green Gully | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 8 | Port Melbourne | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Dandenong Thunder | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 8 |
| 10 | Bentleigh Greens | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 11 | Eastern Lions | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 8 |
| 12 | St. Albans Saints | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | -6 | 8 |
| 13 | Altona Magic | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 4 |
| 14 | Dandenong City | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -8 | 2 |