A victory to the home team is predicted from this fixture if the league standings is a way to look into the future. The Goulburn Valley Suns followers are confident that the difference between 3rd and Ballarat City's 12th place in the table will show on the ground.
- Goulburn Valley Suns have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Ballarat City have the fewest scored goals (14) in Victoria NPL 3
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!
Goulburn Valley Suns form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at John McEwen Reserve as Goulburn Valley Suns have scored 15 goals to get 15 points from 7 games. The overall stats in the Victoria NPL 3 are 5-0-2 (wins-draws-losses). Goulburn Valley Suns has won so many consecutive home games (four in a row) that they struggle to remember the last time points were lost here at John McEwen Reserve. We remember; it was Doveton.
Goulburn shared the glory with Doveton in their last match, an away game that ended all square 2-2.
A 2-2 draw away before that, with Beaumaris the opponent.Sports bettors, take note: A review of the 13 latest league games highlights that 12 of them had at least one goal scored by each team.
The Goulburn Valley Suns manager has got the team scoring with 15 from 7 home games in the league. 9 goals have been conceded.
Ballarat City form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Ballarat City so far with only 2 points returning home. The records show 0-2-5 (win-draw-lose).
This game can not go any worse than the last one, the home loss versus Melbourne Victory II with 1-5 on the scoreboard. Ballarat City lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Geelong SC that ended 1-1.Observe that 13 of this club's 14 most recent league games have ended with at least three goals.
Ballarat are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 7 goals in these matches. Ballarat City has visited these top teams three times, and 3 of 3 has ended with 2 goals or more!
Head 2 Head
This isn't the first time these two sides meet this season, as the results database show this recent game: Ballarat City - Goulburn 1-2. H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Goulburn Valley Suns two wins, zero draws and Ballarat City zero victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less.
Goulburn Valley Suns missing players
Ballarat City missing players
| Goulburn Valley Suns | Ballarat City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 7 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 26 | 15 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 19 | 9 | 4 | Conceded | C | 11 | 20 | 47 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 93% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 79% | 86% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 86% | 93% |
| 36% | 43% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 43% | 50% |
| 14% | 29% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 29% | 43% |
| 86% | 71% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 86% | 86% |
| 14% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 14% | 14% |
| 2.5 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 1.1 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 1.2 | 0.6 |
| 0.8 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4.2 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 1.8 | 0.9 |
| 1.3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
| 131% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 167% | 333% |
| 2.7 | 0 | 0 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 3.6 | 1.8 |
| 1.1 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 1 | 0.5 |
- All of Ballarat City's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Ballarat City have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Ballarat City have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Ballarat City have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Ballarat City have the fewest points (2) away in Victoria NPL 3
- Ballarat City have the fewest scored goals (14) in Victoria NPL 3
- Ballarat City have the most conceded goals (47) in Victoria NPL 3
- Ballarat City have the the worst goal difference (-13) away in Victoria NPL 3
- Ballarat City have the the worst goal difference (-33) in Victoria NPL 3
- Ballarat City have won significantly more corners away than at home.
- Ballarat City have yet to win a game.
- Ballarat City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Goulburn Valley Suns have created more than twice as many corners as Ballarat City.
- Goulburn Valley Suns have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Goulburn Valley Suns have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Ballarat City have scored away.
- Goulburn Valley Suns have scored in all their matches so far.
- Goulburn Valley Suns have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Goulburn Valley Suns have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Goulburn Valley Suns 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 | Melbourne Victory II | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 7 | 28 | 34 |
| 2 | Sunshine Georgies | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 31 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 28 |
| 3 | Goulburn Valley Suns | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 19 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 25 |
| 4 | Nunawading City | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 32 | 23 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 25 |
| 5 | North Sunshine Eagles | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 32 | 27 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 5 | 22 |
| 6 | Doveton | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 18 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 14 | -4 | 20 |
| 7 | Boroondara - Carey | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 26 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 20 |
| 8 | Box Hill United | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 24 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 18 | -4 | 17 |
| 9 | Essendon Royals | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -5 | 16 |
| 10 | Geelong SC | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 27 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 20 | -9 | 15 |
| 11 | Beaumaris | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 28 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -10 | 15 |
| 12 | Ballarat City | 14 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 47 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 20 | -33 | 2 |
