Npl Victoria match preview: Green Gully vs Melbourne Knights

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Competition: Australia Npl Victoria
Competition: Fri 21.Jul
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Green Gully Reserve (10000 seats)

Hey! Here's all you must know about the Npl Victoria game Green Gully - Melbourne Knights!

Insights:
  • Green Gully have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Npl Victoria
  • Melbourne Knights have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.

Both participants have had plentiful rest since their last exertion in an official match. Let's hope for an enthusiastic match!

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Green Gully form and stats

When playing at home in the Npl Victoria, Green Gully have managed 6 wins, 0 draws and suffered 5 defeats from 11 games.

It's back home for Green Gully, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Hume City away with the result 1-0. Doyle found the net in that victory.

A 1-1 draw away before that, with Moreland City the opponent.

This is expected to be a close game, with Green 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 16 games. Green Gully has won 3 of these, drawn 6 and lost 7.

Goals decide football matches and Green Gully are scoring many of them at home; 27 on target from 11 league matches. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Green Gully with 23 goals conceded in these matches.

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Melbourne Knights form and stats

As the visiting team in Npl Victoria matches, Melbourne Knights have produced an overall stat of 5-2-3 so far.

Impressive finishing from Bramwell secured the home win 2-1 against Moreland City in their previous game.

The game earlier was the Victoria Dockerty Cup-duel against Oakleigh Cannons, a home defeat (1-3). As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 9 similar matches played by Melbourne Knights in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Melbourne, 4 draws and 2 defeats.

Melbourne Knights are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 18 times in 10 away games so far. Melbourne Knights have conceded 14 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

It's not the first time these two sides meet this season, as the fixture list show this recent game: Melbourne Knights - Green 3-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Green Gully three wins, two draws and Melbourne Knights five victories. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Green GullyP. Waring
P. Waring
13 goals
Melbourne KnightsC. Bramwell
C. Bramwell
8 goals
GreenJ. Hope
J. Hope
7 goals

Green Gully missing players

Melbourne Knights missing players

Green Gully Melbourne Knights
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
22 11 3 Played P 3 10 22
11 6 0 Won W 2 5 12
1 0 0 Drew D 0 2 5
10 5 3 Lost L 1 3 5
48 27 2 Scored S 6 18 43
37 23 9 Conceded C 5 14 27
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
82% 91% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 80% 82%
73% 91% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 70% 64%
64% 82% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 40% 41%
32% 36% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 30% 32%
68% 82% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 60% 68%
14% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 30% 23%
18% 18% 33% Failed to Score F T 0% 10% 9%
 
4.7 4.7 2 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.5 5.3
5.3 6.1 7.3 Corners against (avg) C A 4.3 4.2 4.8
2.4 2 1.3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2.3 2.1
2 2 2 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
9.7 11.2 5 Shots (avg) S ( 9.7 10.7 9.9
4.1 4.5 1.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 4.7 4.3
53% 54% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 38% 46%
 
7.6 9.3 10 Shots against (avg) S A 10.3 8.4 7.8
3.6 5 5.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 3.9 3.2
Key stats in Npl Victoria this season:
  • 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 the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Npl Victoria
  • Green Gully haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Melbourne Knights have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Melbourne Knights 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 Avondale Heights 22 18 3 1 72 20 11 11 0 0 44 9 11 7 3 1 28 11 52 57
2 South Melbourne 21 17 2 2 42 16 13 10 1 2 30 14 8 7 1 0 12 2 26 53
3 Oakleigh Cannons 22 16 3 3 54 21 11 9 1 1 32 10 11 7 2 2 22 11 33 51
4 Melbourne Knights 22 12 5 5 43 27 12 7 3 2 25 13 10 5 2 3 18 14 16 41
5 Port Melbourne 22 12 4 6 46 27 11 6 3 2 20 11 11 6 1 4 26 16 19 40
6 Altona Magic 22 11 2 9 44 44 10 6 1 3 22 18 12 5 1 6 22 26 0 35
7 Green Gully 22 11 1 10 48 37 11 6 0 5 27 23 11 5 1 5 21 14 11 34
8 Dandenong Thunder 22 8 3 11 40 42 11 3 2 6 20 24 11 5 1 5 20 18 -2 27
9 Hume City 22 5 6 11 28 33 11 2 3 6 9 14 11 3 3 5 19 19 -5 21
10 Heidelberg United 21 5 6 10 23 40 11 4 4 3 13 13 10 1 2 7 10 27 -17 21
11 St. Albans Saints 22 4 4 14 20 49 10 3 2 5 10 15 12 1 2 9 10 34 -29 16
12 Bentleigh Greens 22 4 2 16 21 44 11 1 1 9 9 25 11 3 1 7 12 19 -23 14
13 Moreland City 22 3 4 15 24 58 10 2 2 6 11 26 12 1 2 9 13 32 -34 13
14 North Geelong Warriors 22 4 1 17 16 63 10 2 0 8 5 29 12 2 1 9 11 34 -47 13

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.