A home win is expected from this fixture if the league table is anything to judge by. The Eastern Suburbs fans are optimistic that the difference between 2nd and Hawke's Bay United's 8th place in the table will show on the pitch.
- Eastern Suburbs has the most scored goals (12) in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the fewest scored goals (4) in Premiership
1 - 1 - 3 with 6-9. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Hawke's Bay United when playing on artifical turf like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Hawke's Bay United play their home games on grass so that's why we provide these numbers.
Eastern Suburbs form and stats
Eastern Suburbs, who have the most scored goals (12) in Premiership, have secured 5 points from their first three home games in the Premiership. A decent catch, still with room for improvement. Two draws in a row at home now for Eastern.
The Eastern manager T. Readings has got the team scoring with 6 from 3 home games in the league. Eastern Suburbs's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 4 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Hawke's Bay United form and stats
It's not happening yet for Hawke's Bay United on their Premiership travels, with zero points from their first 3 away games. Maybe today will be different? Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Hawke's Bay United's last three away games as they have all been lost.
It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Wellington Phoenix Res wasn't a success with a 0-3 loss.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Hawke's Bay United as they have only managed to score 2 times from 3 away games in the league. Hawke's Bay United have conceded 7 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
Last six meetings between the teams: Eastern Suburbs won three, Hawke's Bay United won two and one draw. five games with over 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  A. Thurston 5 goals |  J. Randall 4 goals | S. Hoyle 2 goals |
Eastern Suburbs missing players
Hawke's Bay United missing players
| Eastern Suburbs | Hawke's Bay United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 12 | 6 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | 4 | 3 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 67% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 50% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 1.3 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6.3 | 5.7 | 2.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 8 | 7.5 |
| 3.3 | 2.7 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 5 | 3.3 |
| 60% | 75% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 13% | 20% |
- All of Eastern Suburbs's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Hawke's Bay United's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Eastern Suburbs has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Premiership
- Eastern Suburbs has the most scored goals (12) in Premiership
- Eastern Suburbs has the most scored goals in the first half (7) in Premiership
- Eastern Suburbs has the the best goal difference (+6) in Premiership
- Eastern Suburbs have not yet lost a game at home.
- Eastern Suburbs have scored more than double the goals of Hawke's Bay United.
- Eastern Suburbs haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Hawke's Bay United has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (0) in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the fewest points (0) away in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the fewest scored goals (4) in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the fewest scored goals in the second half (2) in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the most conceded goals (7) away in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the most conceded goals in the second half (13) in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the most dropped points from leading position (6) in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the the worst goal difference (-5) away in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United has the the worst goal difference (-9) in Premiership
- Hawke's Bay United have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Hawke's Bay United have lost all their away matches so far.
- Hawke's Bay United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Hawke's Bay United is in the worst form (1-0-5)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Team Wellington | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 2 | Eastern Suburbs | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | Hamilton Wanderers | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| 4 | Auckland City | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | Wellington Phoenix Res | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | -2 | 7 |
| 6 | Waitakere United | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 7 | Canterbury United | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -5 | 6 |
| 8 | Hawke's Bay United | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -9 | 3 |