The visiting Auckland City side should be favourites in this visit to Southern United, as the away team holds a 10 point advantage from their seven league games this season.
Southern United and Auckland City should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1400 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Southern United form and stats
Overall Premiership stats at home this season for Southern United, who have the most clean sheets (2) at home in Premiership, are 1-1-2 (wins-draw-losses).
In their previous game, the manager P. O'Reilly led his Southern United to a defeat in the Premiership match away at Team Wellington. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here. In the match before that, Southern United hosted Hawke's Bay United and drew the game 2-2.
Southern United were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Southern United can score goals in their home matches. After 4 league matches they have found the net 8 times. Southern United have conceded 9 goals in these home games, a significant number.
Auckland City form and stats
The visitors, who have the most clean sheets (4) in Premiership, are W4-D0-L0 on the road this term. That's in the Premiership.
196 minutes! That's how long the Auckland City goalkeeper and his defense have shut out their league opponents.
Auckland City's last game was the home draw against Eastern Suburbs (0-0). Preceding that game was the away victory against Canterbury United with the score of 3-0.
The Auckland City manager J. Figueira has seen his team go crazy on the road this season, having scored 14 goals in 4 league matches away. The Auckland City defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average (2 goals in 4 games).
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Southern United 0 wins, 3 draws and Auckland City 7 victories. As for goals, 7 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 3 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  G. Coughlan 5 goals |
Southern United missing players
Auckland City missing players
| Southern United | Auckland City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | 8 | 2 | Scored | S | 11 | 14 | 18 |
| 19 | 9 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 86% |
| 71% | 75% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 50% | 43% |
| 43% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 50% | 29% |
| 71% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 25% | 43% |
| 14% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 75% | 57% |
| 14% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 5.7 | 7 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4 |
| 5 | 6.7 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 |
| 0.7 | 0.7 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | 35 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 18 | 18 | 37 |
| 25 | 17 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 8 | 8 | 17 |
| 52% | 35% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 100% | 100% | 47% |
- All of Auckland City's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Southern United's matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Auckland City has the fewest conceded goals (2) away
- Auckland City has the fewest conceded goals (5)
- Auckland City has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (3)
- Auckland City has the fewest dropped points from leading position (2)
- Auckland City has the most clean sheets (3) away
- Auckland City has the most clean sheets (4)
- Auckland City has the most points (12) away
- Auckland City has the most scored goals (14) away
- Auckland City has the the best goal difference (+12) away
- Auckland City has the the best goal difference (+13)
- Auckland City have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Auckland City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Auckland City have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Auckland City have won all their away games so far.
- Auckland City have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Auckland City haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Auckland City is in the best form (4-2-0)
- Southern United has the most clean sheets (2) at home
- Southern United has the most conceded goals in the second half (10)
- Southern United has the most matches over the total-line (6)
- Southern United have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Southern 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 | Auckland City | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 17 |
| 2 | Team Wellington | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 14 |
| 3 | Hawke's Bay United | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 12 |
| 4 | Eastern Suburbs | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 9 |
| 5 | Waitakere United | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 8 |
| 6 | Tasman United | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | -2 | 7 |
| 7 | Southern United | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -4 | 7 |
| 8 | Wellington Phoenix Res | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | -4 | 6 |
| 9 | Canterbury United | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 6 |
| 10 | Hamilton Wanderers | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 11 | -11 | 6 |