📏 Form Guide

Western United

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Western United will be looking for another win after a 4-2 A-League victory against Auckland FC.

In that match, Western United managed 44% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. For Western United, the goalscorers were Michael Ruhs (18'), Noah Botić (23'), Angus Thurgate (49') and Oliver Lavale (96'). Auckland FC had 13 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Neyder Moreno (62') and Jesse Randall (94') scored for Auckland FC.

It has been a rare occasion in recent games that Western United have shown defensive steel. In fact, Western United have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 9 goals during that time.

Adelaide United

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In their previous game, Adelaide United drew 0-0 in the A-League tie with Melbourne City.

In that game, Adelaide United had 44% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. On the other side, Melbourne City had 16 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target.

Proving their predisposition for fruitful matches, goals have been scored 25 times in the previous six matches in which Adelaide United have played, yielding an average of 4.17 goals per fixture. Opposition teams have got 15 from this total. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, though.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their past head to head meetings going back to 16/04/2023 shows that Western United have won 2 of them & Adelaide United 3, with the tally of drawn matches being 1.

Loads of goals were seen in those games, too - 22 in all at an average of 3.67 goals per match.

The previous league meeting between these sides was A-League match day 20 on 23/02/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Western United 3-0 Adelaide United.

On that occasion, Western United managed 41% possession and 20 shots on goal with 11 of them on target. The goals were scored by Noah Botić (26'), Hiroshi Ibusuki (59') and Riku Danzaki (88').

At the other end, Adelaide United had 9 shots on goal with 0 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Shaun Evans.

ℹ️ Team News: Adelaide United

Adelaide United boss Carl Veart has a number of players out of action. Austin Ayoubi (Collateral ligament injury), Archie Goodwin (Hamstring injury), Panashe Madanha (Hamstring injury) and Bailey O'Neil (unknown injury) will miss out on this game.

✨ Prediction

For this match, we think that Western United will probably have the majority of the possession and should be able to turn a few of their chances into goals.

At the same time, Adelaide United may well find it hard getting on the scoresheet but do we see them converting at least once as well.

We’re predicting a comfortable 3-1 win for Western United at the end of the 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 09:00 09/05/2025