Get ready for Melbourne Knights - Eastern Lions! Despite the season performances so far this game should be cracking!
- Melbourne Knights have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Eastern Lions have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Melbourne Knights form and stats
Home games in the Npl Victoria have been a walk in the park for Melbourne Knights so far, with 15 points won from 6 matches; 5 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss. It’s been three wins in a row for Melbourne Knights here at Knights Stadium, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
The fans are hoping that Melbourne will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 1-5 away loss in the Npl Victoria game against Bentleigh Greens (placed 2nd). Melbourne were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Before that, Melbourne had a home game versus South Melbourne which ended with a victory 1-0.The Melbourne fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 9 goals in 6 league matches. Defensively Melbourne have been outstanding, conceding less than half a goal on average per home game in the league (3 in 6 games). For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Eastern Lions form and stats
There's been little loot from Eastern Lions's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 6 away games in the Npl Victoria. Eastern Lions only have 1 win to counter their 3 defeats and 2 draws. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Eastern's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Home advantage was not enough for Eastern in their previous game, as they lost their Npl Victoria-match, hosting Dandenong City, 0-1.
Preceding that game, the 2-3 loss visiting Green Gully's place.Eastern have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 6 league away games 7 goals have been scored. Eastern have conceded 12 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  G. Albano 4 goals | C. Mikulic 3 goals |  C. Droustas 3 goals |
Melbourne Knights missing players
Eastern Lions missing players
| Melbourne Knights | Eastern Lions | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 12 | 6 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| 6 | 5 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 17 | 9 | 5 | Scored | S | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 15 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 8 | 12 | 20 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 50% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 58% | 50% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 42% |
| 25% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 33% | 25% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 33% | 17% |
| 58% | 33% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 83% | 67% |
| 33% | 50% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| 8% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 17% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.1 | 2.3 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 3.2 | 2.6 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7.8 | 9 | 10.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 9 | 8.9 |
| 3.1 | 3.5 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 3.6 | 3.6 |
| 46% | 43% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 28% | 25% |
- All of Eastern Lions's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Eastern Lions have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Eastern Lions have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Eastern Lions haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Melbourne Knights have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at 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 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 25 |
| 2 | Bentleigh Greens | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 23 |
| 3 | South Melbourne | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 22 |
| 4 | Heidelberg United | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 22 |
| 5 | Melbourne Knights | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 21 |
| 6 | Hume City | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 5 | 18 |
| 7 | Oakleigh Cannons | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 18 |
| 8 | Port Melbourne | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 16 |
| 9 | Green Gully | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 15 |
| 10 | Dandenong Thunder | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | -1 | 14 |
| 11 | Eastern Lions | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -8 | 9 |
| 12 | St. Albans Saints | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 16 | -17 | 9 |
| 13 | Dandenong City | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -9 | 7 |
| 14 | Altona Magic | 12 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -10 | 6 |