Betting guide: South Melbourne favourite to beat Kingston at Lakeside Stadium

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.

Kingston play their home games on artificial turf, while this game is played on grass. Recent stats for Kingston when playing on grass are 4 wins, 1 draw and 4 defeats from nine matches. They have scored 15 goals and conceded 13 times in these games.

South Melbourne form and stats

When playing at home, South Melbourne, who have the fewest scored goals (17) in Npl Victoria, have managed 2 wins, 1 draw and suffered 2 defeats from 5 games. The South Melbourne manager C. Taylor might feel some added pressure to get something from this game after two straight home defeats.

The South Melbourne crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-2 to Kingston here at Lakeside Stadium in a Npl Victoria match. Ahead of that match, South Melbourne lost 0-3 at home to Avondale Heights.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier South Melbourne matches with similar probabilities have ended with 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat (from one game).

The South Melbourne fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium, the tally being 6 in 5 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 8 goals have been conceded.

Kingston form and stats

There's been little loot from Kingston's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 8 away games. Kingston only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws.

It's the second away game in a row for Kingston, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus South Melbourne in the Npl Victoria last time out. Prior to that match, the Kingston manager faced defeat when travelling to Oakleigh Cannons and losing 2-3.

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 Kingston playing away, we found three games. Results were 1 away win, 1 draw and 1 home win.

Kingston are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 9 away goals from 8 games. In the opposite end, Kingston have conceded 15 goals in their away games.

Head 2 Head

The dueling parties have met before this season: South Melbourne - Kingston 0-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): South Melbourne 0 wins, 0 draws and Kingston 2 victories. As for goals, 0 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 2 games had two or less.

South Melbourne missing players

Kingston missing players