South Melbourne have performed great football so far, sitting at 1st position in the table. Dandenong Thunder have an outlook both direction in the table from the 8th spot.
- South Melbourne have the most scored goals (51) in Npl Victoria
- South Melbourne have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Dandenong Thunder have scored away.
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
South Melbourne form and stats
Home games in the Npl Victoria have been a walk in the park for South Melbourne so far, with 25 points won from 9 matches; 8 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.
Melbourne are confident in defense, having played 185 minutes without conceding a goal in the league.
South Melbourne enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Eastern Lions's place. The match ended 4-0. As mentioned above, Melbourne "killed" Eastern Lions in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency.
Before that, South Melbourne drew at home versus Green Gully.Goal fest? Who knows the future, but we do know that 8 of the 10 latest league matches with this team has contained at least three goals.
With more than three goals on average, the attacking play of South Melbourne is on fire here. A stunning 29 from 9 league matches. Melbourne are not conceding a lot of goals here at Lakeside Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 9 matches.
Dandenong Thunder form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Npl Victoria travels is 5 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats. Dandenong Thunder has recorded two wins in a row in their away matches and hold legitimate hopes of a third one.
Dandenong play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Avondale Heights (placed 4th).
Ahead of that match was the victory versus Dandenong City at their stadium, the result 3-1.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 Dandenong Thunder playing away, we found 5 games. Results were 1 away win, 0 draws and 4 home wins.
Dandenong have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 10 league away games 13 goals have been scored. As opposed to that, Dandenong Thunder have seen the ball go into their own net 12 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
These teams met each other earlier on this match year: Dandenong Thunder - South Melbourne 1-1. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's seven Melbourne victories, two draws and one Dandenong Thunder win. Over/under statistics; seven of these games ended with three goals or more, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  H. Sawyer 17 goals | M. Mikkola 8 goals | P. Langlois 7 goals |
South Melbourne missing players
Dandenong Thunder missing players
| South Melbourne | Dandenong Thunder | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 9 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 20 |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | Won | W | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 8 |
| 51 | 29 | 8 | Scored | S | 2 | 13 | 27 |
| 17 | 6 | 3 | Conceded | C | 3 | 12 | 27 |
| 95% | 89% | 75% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 85% | 89% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 70% | 80% |
| 70% | 78% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 60% | 60% |
| 50% | 67% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 25% |
| 30% | 44% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 50% | 33% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 40% | 55% |
| 50% | 67% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 30% | 20% |
| 5% | 11% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 30% | 30% |
| 6 | 5.3 | 4.8 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.5 |
| 5 | 3.9 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 2.1 | 1.6 | 1.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.3 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 11.2 | 13.9 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.3 | 9.1 | 9.6 |
| 5.3 | 6.6 | 6.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 4 | 3.9 |
| 48% | 49% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 18% | 32% | 35% |
| 7.5 | 8.3 | 11.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7 | 7.6 | 8.2 |
| 2.9 | 3 | 4.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.5 | 3.8 |
- Dandenong Thunder haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- South Melbourne have not yet lost a game at home.
- South Melbourne have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- South Melbourne have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- South Melbourne have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Dandenong Thunder have scored away.
- South Melbourne have the fewest conceded goals (17) in Npl Victoria
- South Melbourne have the most clean sheets (10) in Npl Victoria
- South Melbourne have the most points (25) at home in Npl Victoria
- South Melbourne have the most scored goals (29) at home in Npl Victoria
- South Melbourne have the most scored goals (51) in Npl Victoria
- South Melbourne have the most scored goals in the first half (29) in Npl Victoria
- South Melbourne have the the best goal difference (+23) at home in Npl Victoria
- South Melbourne have the the best goal difference (+34) in Npl Victoria
| 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 | 20 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 51 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 11 | 34 | 47 |
| 2 | Oakleigh Cannons | 20 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 48 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 7 | 28 | 45 |
| 3 | Port Melbourne | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 33 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 13 | 40 |
| 4 | Avondale Heights | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 41 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 14 | 34 |
| 5 | Heidelberg United | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 35 | 29 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 13 | 6 | 33 |
| 6 | Green Gully | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 30 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 33 |
| 7 | Bentleigh Greens | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 34 | 25 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 9 | 32 |
| 8 | Dandenong Thunder | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 27 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 28 |
| 9 | Melbourne Knights | 20 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 29 | 32 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 17 | -3 | 23 |
| 10 | Altona Magic | 20 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 12 | -12 | 23 |
| 11 | St. Albans Saints | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 31 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 13 | -14 | 23 |
| 12 | Hume City | 20 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 27 | 42 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 19 | -15 | 16 |
| 13 | Dandenong City | 20 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 46 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 29 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 | -29 | 13 |
| 14 | Eastern Lions | 20 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 52 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 28 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 24 | -37 | 6 |
