Green Gully vs Bentleigh Greens match preview

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Competition: Australia Npl Victoria
Date: Sat 31.August
Match begins: 05:00 (UTC)
Venue: Green Gully Reserve (2500 seats)

Both teams are enjoying a good season so far and games like this could be decisive. Here's the preview for Green Gully - Bentleigh Greens!

It's no vacation for neither Green Gully nor Bentleigh Greens as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

This is a local derby, usually meaning added tension and importance.

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Green Gully form and stats

When playing at home in the Npl Victoria, Green Gully, who have the most scored goals (32) at home in Npl Victoria, have managed 5 wins, 5 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 13 games.

The Green Gully crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Bentleigh Greens here at Green Gully Reserve in a Npl Victoria match. Heartbreak before that as Green Gully lost 0-3 at Oakleigh Cannons's place.

This is expected to be a close game, with Green Gully perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Green Gully as a small favourite), we find ten games. Green Gully has won 2 of these, drawn 3 and lost 5.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (32 in 13 games), Green Gully's attacking play is working. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Green Gully defense is not exactly impregnable. 24 goals conceded from 13 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

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Bentleigh Greens form and stats

The visitors are W4-D3-L6 on the road this term. That's in the Npl Victoria.

Two travels in a row for Bentleigh Greens, whose manager J. Anastasiadis could celebrate last time after the Npl Victoria win against Green Gully. The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-3 defeat against Avondale Heights.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Bentleigh Greens playing away and similar expectations, we found three relevant matches. Results were 1 Bentleigh Greens win, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

The travelling fans enjoy Bentleigh Greens's attacking play in away games, having scored 20 goals in 13 league matches away. Bentleigh Greens have conceded 26 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Green Gully and Bentleigh Greens have met before this season: Green Gully - Bentleigh Greens 0-1. Head-2-head stats last four meetings: 0 - 1 - 3 (Green Gully wins - draws - Bentleigh Greens wins). As for goals, 2 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 2 had two or less.

Green Gully missing players

Bentleigh Greens missing players

Green Gully Bentleigh Greens
Total Home Home vs top Statistic Away vs top Away Total
27 14 3 Played 3 14 27
12 5 1 Won 1 5 14
8 5 1 Drew 0 3 4
7 4 1 Lost 2 6 9
55 32 7 Scored 2 21 48
41 25 8 Conceded 6 26 45
96% 93% 100% Over 0.5 100% 100% 100%
81% 79% 100% Over 1.5 100% 93% 93%
59% 57% 67% Over 2.5 67% 57% 70%
48% 57% 67% Over 3.5 0% 36% 48%
30% 50% 67% Over 4.5 0% 29% 22%
67% 71% 100% BTTS 33% 57% 59%
26% 21% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 14% 19%
11% 14% 0% Failed To Score 67% 29% 22%
 
5.6 6.1 5.3 Corners For (avg) 9 6 6
4.6 3.9 3.3 Corners Against (avg) 6 5.2 4.6
1.7 2 2.3 Yellow Cards (avg) 2.7 1.5 1.4
5 3 0 Red Cards 0 1 3
Key stats this season:
  • Bentleigh Greens haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Green Gully
All Npl Victoria Premier League Club Friendlies
All Home Away
22-06-19 NPL Green Gully 3 - 3 Port Melbourne
29-06-19 NPL Avondale Heights 1 - 2 Green Gully
06-07-19 NPL Green Gully 0 - 0 South Melbourne
13-07-19 NPL Pascoe Vale 0 - 1 Green Gully
20-07-19 NPL Green Gully 5 - 2 Kingston
27-07-19 NPL Green Gully 1 - 1 Melbourne Knights
03-08-19 NPL Hume City 1 - 3 Green Gully
17-08-19 NPL Green Gully 6 - 2 Dandenong Thunder
25-08-19 NPL Oakleigh Cannons 3 - 0 Green Gully
31-08-19 NPL Green Gully 0 - 1 Bentleigh Greens
Bentleigh Greens
All Ffa Cup Npl Victoria Club Friendlies
All Home Away
21-06-19 NPL Hume City 0 - 2 Bentleigh Greens
28-06-19 NPL Bentleigh Greens 1 - 3 Dandenong Thunder
05-07-19 NPL Oakleigh Cannons 3 - 0 Bentleigh Greens
12-07-19 NPL Bentleigh Greens 2 - 1 Altona Magic
19-07-19 NPL Bentleigh Greens 0 - 3 Heidelberg United
26-07-19 NPL Bentleigh Greens 2 - 2 Kingston
02-08-19 NPL Dandenong City 3 - 2 Bentleigh Greens
17-08-19 NPL Port Melbourne 1 - 1 Bentleigh Greens
25-08-19 NPL Bentleigh Greens 0 - 3 Avondale Heights
31-08-19 NPL Green Gully 0 - 1 Bentleigh Greens

  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 Heidelberg United 26 17 4 5 53 28 13 7 4 2 25 13 13 10 0 3 28 15 25 55
2 Avondale Heights 26 16 5 5 63 29 13 9 1 3 31 13 13 7 4 2 32 16 34 53
3 Oakleigh Cannons 26 13 6 7 45 32 13 9 2 2 28 15 13 4 4 5 17 17 13 45
4 Green Gully 26 12 8 6 55 40 13 5 5 3 32 24 13 7 3 3 23 16 15 44
5 Bentleigh Greens 26 13 4 9 47 45 13 9 1 3 27 19 13 4 3 6 20 26 2 43
6 Hume City 26 12 5 9 41 37 13 8 1 4 24 17 13 4 4 5 17 20 4 41
7 Dandenong City 26 10 5 11 42 47 13 4 3 6 20 24 13 6 2 5 22 23 -5 35
8 South Melbourne 26 10 4 12 27 42 13 6 2 5 14 17 13 4 2 7 13 25 -15 34
9 Port Melbourne 26 8 7 11 41 37 13 5 4 4 24 17 13 3 3 7 17 20 4 31
10 Melbourne Knights 26 10 4 12 35 42 13 6 2 5 20 18 13 4 2 7 15 24 -7 31
11 Altona Magic 26 9 2 15 43 51 13 5 1 7 19 19 13 4 1 8 24 32 -8 29
12 Kingston 21 4 4 13 23 40 11 2 2 7 11 22 10 2 2 6 12 18 -17 16
12 Dandenong Thunder 26 6 6 14 44 70 13 2 4 7 20 34 13 4 2 7 24 36 -26 24
13 Kingston City 26 6 5 15 35 51 13 3 2 8 14 25 13 3 3 7 21 26 -16 23
14 Pascoe Vale 26 6 3 17 33 53 13 3 2 8 22 29 13 3 1 9 11 24 -20 21

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