📏 Form Guide

Central Coast Mariners

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Central Coast Mariners enter this game after a 2-2 A-League drawn result against Macarthur FC.

In that game, Central Coast Mariners had 37% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. For Central Coast Mariners, goals were scored by Trent Sainsbury (15') and Arthur De Lima (29'). For their opponents, Macarthur FC had 20 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Kévin Boli (22') and Harry Sawyer (49') scored for Macarthur FC.

Fixtures involving Central Coast Mariners have often been absorbing encounters of late with a lot of goalmouth action being a real hallmark. Over their past half dozen games, the sum of 22 goals have gone in for both sides combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 7 of these coming from Central Coast Mariners.

Their prior results show that Central Coast Mariners:

• have not lost a league tie with Brisbane Roar in their last 3 matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Brisbane Roar

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Brisbane Roar head into the clash after a 1-0 A-League win to beat Wellington Phoenix in their last outing.

In that game, Brisbane Roar managed 56% possession and 30 shots on goal with 9 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Brisbane Roar was Florin Bérenguer (58'). For their opponents, Wellington Phoenix got 6 shots on goal with 2 on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and Brisbane Roar have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 12 goals in total. At the back, Brisbane Roar have been far from perfect. Putting that to one side, it remains to be seen if that trend will continue on in this next match or not.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Inspecting their past head to head meetings stretching back to 10/02/2023 shows us that Central Coast Mariners have won 5 of these and Brisbane Roar 1, with the number of drawn games being 0.

20 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 15 of them from Mariners and 5 created by The Roar. That is an average goals per game value of 3.33.

The previous league match between the two was A-League match day 12 on 03/01/2025 when it finished Brisbane Roar 1-3 Central Coast Mariners.

On that day, Brisbane Roar managed 56% possession and 20 shots at goal with 8 on target. The scorers were Walid Shour (11' Own goal) and Ben Halloran (71').

Central Coast Mariners had 10 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Harrison Steele (81') and Arthur De Lima (95') scored.

The match was refereed by Adam Kersey.

📰 Team News: Central Coast Mariners

Ryan Edmondson (unknown injury), Trent Sainsbury (Achilles tendon rupture) and Brad Tapp (Cruciate ligament injury) are not available for Central Coast Mariners manager Mark Jackson.

It seems likely that Mariners may well make use of the 4-4-2 system for this one and select Dylan Peraic-Cullen, Diesel Herrington, Brian Kaltak, Nathan Paull, Lucas Mauragis, Mikael Doka, Alfie McCalmont, Haine Eames, Arthur De Lima, Alou Kuol and Bailey Brandtman.

📰 Team News: Brisbane Roar

Brisbane Roar manager Ruben Zadkovich has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Corey Brown (unknown injury) and Ben Warland (Cruciate ligament tear) are not ready for selection.

We reckon that The Roar might begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation using Matt Acton, Jack Hingert, Lucas Herrington, Hosine Bility, Antonee Burke-Gilroy, Samuel Klein, Jay O'Shea, Keegan Jelacic, Florin Berenguer, Henry Hore and A. Abubakar-Ankra.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Central Coast Mariners will manage to put a goal past this Brisbane Roar outfit, but one goal is unlikely to be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re therefore tipping a very close game with a 1-2 advantage for Brisbane Roar when the full-time whistle blows. It will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Victor Martins, 09:13 02/05/2025