This season has been challenging for Green Gully U21 so far, and that also applies to St. Albans Saints U21. These students from the school of hard knocks pray for some important points here.
- Green Gully U21 have the fewest scored goals (24) in Victoria NPL Youth League
- St. Albans Saints U21 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
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.
Green Gully U21 form and stats
Green Gully U21's results here at Green Gully Reserve in the Victoria NPL Youth League have been very modest with 2 victories, 1 draw and 8 defeats.
The Green club members got no joy from their last match, also played here at Green Gully Reserve: A 1-3 defeat against Bentleigh Greens U21 (placed 6th).
Heartbreak before that as Green Gully U21 lost 1-7 at South Melbourne U21's place.Scoring bonanza? Who knows about this one, but we do know that 10 of the 13 latest league matches with this club has seen three goals or more.
A decent goal production from Green in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 11 league matches. As for conceded goals, Green Gully U21's unpleasant statistic is 31 goals surrendered.
St. Albans Saints U21 form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for St. Albans Saints U21 so far with only 8 points returning home. The records show 2-2-6 (win-draw-lose).
St. Albans Saints U21 failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Hume City U21 (placed 2nd) that ended with defeat 2-3.
Prior to that match, a home win 3-2 against Heidelberg United U21.Take note! Both teams have scored at least one goal in 12 of this club's last 15 league matches.
The travelling fans enjoy Albans's attacking play in away games, having scored 15 goals in 10 league matches away. The opposition has been scoring high and low on St. Albans Saints U21's goalkeeper in away games this season, as they have let in 26 goals in 10 travels. When St. Albans Saints U21 is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against Heidelberg United U21, St. Albans Saints U21, Dandenong City U21 and Melbourne Knights U21.
Head 2 Head
This is what happened when the participants played each other earlier this campaign; St. Albans Saints U21 - Green 2-3. Stats for the last two meetings involving these two squads are: two wins for Green Gully U21, zero draws and zero wins for St. Albans Saints U21. Over 2,5 goals: one time; under 2,5 goals: one game.Green Gully U21 missing players
St. Albans Saints U21 missing players
| Green Gully U21 | St. Albans Saints U21 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 10 | 21 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | 8 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 24 | 17 | 6 | Scored | S | 6 | 15 | 30 |
| 53 | 31 | 9 | Conceded | C | 6 | 26 | 50 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 90% | 86% |
| 65% | 73% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 60% | 62% |
| 50% | 73% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 60% | 62% |
| 35% | 45% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 50% | 48% |
| 55% | 64% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 80% | 71% |
| 5% | 9% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 40% | 27% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 20% | 24% |
| 4.6 | 3.9 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.3 | 3.9 | 3.8 |
| 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.3 | 6.3 | 7.2 |
| 1.9 | 2.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.5 | 10.7 | 9.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15.3 | 10.6 | 9.6 |
| 4.4 | 4.8 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 4.4 | 4.4 |
| 29% | 32% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | 32% |
| 10.3 | 11 | 10.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.3 | 14.2 | 14.4 |
| 5.1 | 5 | 4.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.7 | 6.1 | 6.2 |
- All of Green Gully U21's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Green Gully U21 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Green Gully U21 have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Green Gully U21 have the fewest scored goals (24) in Victoria NPL Youth League
- Green Gully U21 have the fewest scored goals in the first half (9) in Victoria NPL Youth League
- Green Gully U21 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- St. Albans Saints U21 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- St. Albans Saints U21 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 | South Melbourne U21 | 21 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 71 | 30 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 41 | 17 | 41 | 47 |
| 2 | Hume City U21 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 46 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 19 | 43 |
| 3 | Oakleigh Cannons U21 | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 42 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 18 | 43 |
| 4 | Avondale Heights U21 | 21 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 58 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 14 | 33 | 42 |
| 5 | Port Melbourne U21 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 49 | 25 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 24 | 41 |
| 6 | Bentleigh Greens U21 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 34 | 33 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 22 | 1 | 33 |
| 7 | Altona Magic U21 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 32 | 40 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 19 | -8 | 28 |
| 8 | Eastern Lions U21 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 40 | 48 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 26 | -8 | 27 |
| 9 | Dandenong Thunder U21 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 28 | 44 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 20 | -16 | 25 |
| 10 | Dandenong City U21 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 33 | 62 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 34 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 28 | -29 | 21 |
| 11 | Melbourne Knights U21 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 26 | 34 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 16 | 12 | -8 | 20 |
| 12 | St. Albans Saints U21 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 30 | 50 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 24 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 26 | -20 | 18 |
| 13 | Heidelberg United U21 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 37 | 55 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 26 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 25 | 29 | -18 | 17 |
| 14 | Green Gully U21 | 20 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 24 | 53 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 17 | 31 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 22 | -29 | 14 |
