Melaka United will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 15 points behind Johor Darul Ta'zim.
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.
Melaka United form and stats
Melaka United have collected 7 points from their Super League home games so far after 2-1-1.
No payout for Melaka in their previous match, an away game at Kedah that ended in defeat 0-1. Heartbreak before that as Melaka lost 2-3 at Sabah's place.
Melaka has scored 5 league goals at home this season, in 4 matches. Melaka have only conceded 3 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Johor Darul Ta'zim form and stats
3-1-0 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Johor Darul Ta'zim, who have the most scored goals (28) in Super League, in their Super League matches away.
Ta'zim won their last game, 4-1 versus Sabah played at home. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus MISC that ended 2-2.
Johor Darul Ta'zim has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 7 goals from 4 games. Ta'zim have conceded 4 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-2-head stats last six meetings: zero - one - five (Melaka wins - draws - Johor Darul Ta'zim wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Gama 11 goals |  G. Cabrera Giordano 9 goals |
Melaka United missing players
Johor Darul Ta'zim missing players
| Melaka United | Johor Darul Ta'zim | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | 5 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 28 |
| 11 | 3 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 60% | 50% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 70% |
| 30% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 60% |
| 30% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 20% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 25% | 40% |
| 50% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 60% |
| 30% | 25% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 20% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.4 | 0.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2 | 1.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 72 | 12 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 13 | 43 | 63 |
| 35 | 8 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 3 | 24 | 38 |
| 37% | 62% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 29% | 74% |
- Johor Darul Ta'zim has the fewest conceded goals (4) away in Super League
- Johor Darul Ta'zim has the fewest conceded goals (8) in Super League
- Johor Darul Ta'zim has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3) in Super League
- Johor Darul Ta'zim has the most scored goals (28) in Super League
- Johor Darul Ta'zim has the most scored goals in the first half (15) in Super League
- Johor Darul Ta'zim has the the best goal difference (+20) in Super League
- Johor Darul Ta'zim have not yet lost a game.
- Johor Darul Ta'zim have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Johor Darul Ta'zim have scored in all their matches so far.
- Johor Darul Ta'zim have scored more than double the goals of Melaka United.
- Johor Darul Ta'zim haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Johor Darul Ta'zim is in the best form (5-1-0)
- Melaka United has the fewest matches over the total-line (3) in Super League
- Melaka United has the most matches under the total-line (7) in Super League
- Melaka United 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 | Johor Darul Ta'zim | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 26 |
| 2 | Kedah | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| 3 | Perak | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 14 | 3 | 18 |
| 4 | Terengganu | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 16 |
| 5 | Selangor | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | Pahang | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 14 |
| 7 | UiTM | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 14 |
| 8 | Melaka United | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 11 |
| 9 | MISC | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 8 | -2 | 11 |
| 10 | Sabah | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | -9 | 9 |
| 11 | FELDA United | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -10 | 7 |
| 12 | PDRM | 10 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 12 | -21 | -1 |