The odds favour Green Gully in this match against Bentleigh Greens, but the away team will resist to the bitter end. Here's our match preview!
- Green Gully have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Bentleigh Greens have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Npl Victoria
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
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.
Green Gully form and stats
4 victories, 0 draws and 4 defeats. That’s what Green Gully have to build on here at Green Gully Reserve in the Npl Victoria.
A nice win for Green last time playing, versus Bentleigh Greens. That was also a home game and the match ended 3-1 with Koudakpo, Vecchio and Waring scoring for the victors. Sweet to taste a league victory after four matches without one.
Heartbreak before that as Green Gully lost 0-1 at South Melbourne's place.The betting market estimate that the home team has about 55-60% chance of winning this match. There could be betting value if you think differently, so to help you here are the stats from Green Gully's earlier matches at home being 55%-60% favourite: Played 4 games, won 4 matches, drawn 0 and lost 0.
Goal party? We don't know about this one, but we do know that 10 of the 13 most recent league games with this team has contained at least three goals.
Green Gully can score goals in their home matches. After 8 league matches they have found the net 19 times.
Bentleigh Greens form and stats
Bentleigh Greens have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Npl Victoria, after 2-0-7 (9 played).
Two away games in a row for Bentleigh, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-3 versus Green Gully.
A loss against Moreland City was the result prior to that, in a home game.As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Bentleigh Greens playing away, we found 9 games. Results were 2 away wins, 1 draw and 6 home wins.
Take note that 11 of this club's 12 latest league rounds have ended with three goals or more.
It's early days yet, but Bentleigh Greens has scored 9 and conceded 18 goals from their travels in the league so far (9 games).
Head 2 Head
This isn't the first time these teams meet on the pitch this season, as the records show this recent game: Green Gully - Bentleigh Greens 3-1. The match official got to use his red card when these teams last met, and the criminal was Hilliar (Bentleigh Greens). H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Green three wins, one draw and Bentleigh Greens six victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  P. Waring 9 goals | J. Hope 7 goals | A. Gerez 4 goals |
Green Gully missing players
Bentleigh Greens missing players
| Green Gully | Bentleigh Greens | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 16 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 35 | 19 | 6 | Scored | S | 5 | 9 | 16 |
| 28 | 16 | 3 | Conceded | C | 7 | 18 | 36 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 81% | 88% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 78% | 88% |
| 75% | 88% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 78% | 81% |
| 62% | 75% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 33% | 44% |
| 38% | 38% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 11% | 12% |
| 69% | 88% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 62% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 19% | 12% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 38% |
| 4.8 | 5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 4.9 | 5.1 |
| 5.8 | 6.8 | 6.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.3 | 6.1 | 5.2 |
| 2.6 | 2 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.1 | 2.2 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 9.8 | 11.2 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9 | 7.9 | 8.8 |
| 4.3 | 4.8 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| 51% | 50% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 29% | 27% |
| 8.2 | 9.1 | 9.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 8 | 11.6 | 12.1 |
| 3.8 | 4.8 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4 | 5.6 | 5.8 |
- Bentleigh Greens have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Bentleigh Greens have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Bentleigh Greens have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Npl Victoria
- Bentleigh Greens have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in Npl Victoria
- Bentleigh Greens haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Green Gully have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
- Green Gully have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Green Gully have scored more than double the goals of Bentleigh Greens.
- Green Gully 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 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 21 | 43 |
| 2 | Avondale Heights | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 54 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 37 | 40 |
| 3 | Oakleigh Cannons | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 41 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 24 | 36 |
| 4 | Melbourne Knights | 16 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 34 | 21 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 31 |
| 5 | Port Melbourne | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 10 | 24 |
| 6 | Dandenong Thunder | 16 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 10 | 0 | 22 |
| 7 | Green Gully | 16 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 35 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 12 | 7 | 21 |
| 8 | Heidelberg United | 16 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 17 | -11 | 19 |
| 9 | Hume City | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 1 | 17 |
| 10 | Altona Magic | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 33 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 20 | -12 | 17 |
| 11 | St. Albans Saints | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 35 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 28 | -19 | 13 |
| 12 | Moreland City | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 40 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 23 | -21 | 12 |
| 13 | Bentleigh Greens | 16 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 16 | 36 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 18 | -20 | 9 |
| 14 | North Geelong Warriors | 15 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 42 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 21 | -30 | 7 |
