National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Eastern Suburbs NPL or Lions W that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Eastern Suburbs NPL and Lions W.
Eastern Suburbs NPL form and stats
This stadium, Heath Park, has been a fortress for Eastern Suburbs NPL in the Queensland NPL Women so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 7-1-0.
The home followers saw a 1-1 draw versus Lions W in the Queensland Women's Super Cup last time out and are hoping for a victory here.
Before that, Eastern had a Queensland NPL Women home game versus FQ QAS W which ended with a victory 2-0.Goals decide football matches and Eastern Suburbs NPL are scoring many of them at home; 18 on target from 8 league matches. Eastern are not conceding a lot of goals here at Heath Park in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 8 matches.
Lions W form and stats
Lions W are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Queensland NPL Women, having played 3 games and collected 4 points (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss).
It's another away match for the visitors, as they travelled to Eastern Suburbs NPL in their previous outing. The Queensland Women's Super Cup duel ended 1-1.
Before that, Lions W secured a home win against Gold Coast United W with the score 3-1.For Lions, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the prior nine meetings involving these two contenders are: two wins for Eastern Suburbs NPL, one draw and six wins for Lions W. Over 2,5 goals: seven times; under 2,5 goals: two games.
Top Goalscorers
  T. Riding 17 goals | R. Kirkup 9 goals | S. Persson 7 goals |
Eastern Suburbs NPL missing players
Lions W missing players
| Eastern Suburbs NPL | Lions W | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 16 | 10 | Won | W | 5 | 21 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 3 | 3 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 1 | ||
| 49 | 28 | Scored | S | 27 | 97 | ||
| 25 | 8 | Conceded | C | 9 | 17 | ||
| 92% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 88% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 89% | 96% | ||
| 64% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 56% | 80% | ||
| 32% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 44% | 60% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 44% | ||
| 52% | 46% | BTTS | BTTS | 56% | 52% | ||
| 40% | 54% | Clean Sheets | C S | 44% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | ||
| 6.8 | 6.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 6.6 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 1.9 | 1.6 | ||
| 0.5 | 0.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 0.4 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 12.4 | 12.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.8 | 15.3 | ||
| 6.4 | 6.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7.1 | 8.7 | ||
| 31% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 46% | 46% | ||
| 8.3 | 7.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 6.9 | 5.7 | ||
| 4.1 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 3 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Lions W | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 52 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 38 | 40 |
| 2 | Eastern Suburbs NPL | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 17 | 35 |
| 3 | Peninsula Power W | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 43 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 28 | 34 |
| 4 | Gold Coast United W | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 34 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 23 |
| 5 | Mitchelton W | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 31 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 22 |
| 6 | Sunshine Coast Wanderers W | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 15 | -12 | 16 |
| 7 | Souths United W | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 16 | -16 | 12 |
| 8 | FQ QAS W | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 22 | -9 | 10 |
| 9 | Capalaba W | 15 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 21 | 55 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 32 | -34 | 10 |
| 10 | Brisbane Olympic W | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 16 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 37 | -24 | 8 |
