Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Arema welcomes Perseru Serui

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.

Arema form and stats

Arema have collected 9 points from their home games so far after 3-0-1. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Arema after consecutive victories at their own ground.

Arema's previous game was a Liga 1 match also played at home, ending 4-1 versus Perseru Serui. The home side are looking to build on that result. In the game before, an away victory match versus Semen Padang with a 1-0 scoreline.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Arema home games with this odds we find three games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 2 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 0 matches were won by at least two goals.

Arema are showing their attacking force in their home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (11 goals in 4 games). Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 6 goals have been conceded.

Perseru Serui form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most conceded goals (20) in Liga 1, on their travels is 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

It might be tough going out on the road again for Perseru Serui, facing their second straight away game. Especially as the previous game, ended with a defeat 1-4 versus Arema. A 1-1 draw at Persipura's stadium before that.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Perseru Serui played away with similar odds. This revealed five games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 2 times, 2 were draws and the home team won as expected 1 time.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Perseru Serui as they have only managed to score 5 times from 6 away games. The Perseru Serui manager J. Saragih has some worries about the defense as 13 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Arema - Perseru Serui 4-1. Numbers for the last five meetings between these two teams are: 3 wins for Arema, 1 draw and 1 win for Perseru Serui. Over 2,5 goals: 2 times; under 2,5 goals: 3 games.

Top Goalscorers

M. Konaté 5 goals / 1 assists

D. Setiawan 5 goals

Torres 4 goals / 1 assists

Arema missing players

Perseru Serui missing players