Brisbane Roar vs Western United Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Brisbane Roar

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Brisbane Roar will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 2-1 A-League defeat in their last game at the hands of Melbourne City.

In that game, Brisbane Roar managed 30% possession and 4 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The scorer for Brisbane Roar was Jay O'Shea (80'). At the other end, Melbourne City had 9 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Aidan O'Neill (22', 88') scored for Melbourne City.

It has not been often in recent games that Brisbane Roar have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Brisbane Roar have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 6 of their previous 6 games, leaking 11 goals in the process.

Western United

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Western United will go into the clash following on from a 1-2 A-League win to beat Melbourne Victory in their previous fixture.

In that game, Western United managed 41% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Western United, the scorers were Noah Botić (38') and Aleksandar Prijović (69'). Melbourne Victory got 13 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Bruno Fornaroli (50') scored for Melbourne Victory.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 games featuring Western United, a minimum of three goals have been struck. The overall average number of goals per match in that time is 3.17, with the number of goals averaged by Western United working out to 1.5. While that may be of interest, time will tell whether such a trend might continue on in this upcoming match.

Ahead of this clash, Western United have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 23/08/2020 shows us that Brisbane Roar have won 1 of them & Western United 4, with the number of draws being 1.

A sum of 13 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 of them for The Roar and 8 coming from The West. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The last league meeting featuring these clubs was A-League match day 10 on 30/12/2022 when the final score was Western United 1-1 Brisbane Roar.

On that occasion, Western United managed 54% possession and 10 shots at goal with 4 on target. The scorer was Aleksandar Prijović (78').

For their opponents, Brisbane Roar got 15 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Carlo Armiento (28') scored.

The match was refereed by Shaun Evans.

🗞️ Team News: Brisbane Roar

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just one fitness concern for the Brisbane Roar boss Nick Green to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust group of players. Robbie Kruse (Unknown Injury) won’t play. Scott Neville cannot play in this game through suspension.

It seems likely that The Roar should make use of the 4-4-2 formation for this game with Jordan Holmes, Kai Trewin, J. Courtney-Perkins, Tom Aldred, Noah Smith, Henry Hore, Taras Gomulka, Jay O'Shea, Jez Lofthouse, Stefan Scepovic and Rahmat Akbari.

ℹ️ Team News: Western United

With a completely healthy squad available to choose from, the Western United manager John Aloisi doesn’t have any fitness worries to speak of coming into this game.

We believe The West seem likely to make use of a 4-4-2 system using Jamie Young, Joshua Risdon, Tomoki Imai, Leo Lacroix, Benjamin Garuccio, Lachlan Wales, Tongo Doumbia, Steven Lustica, Connor Pain, Noah Botic and Aleksandar Prijovic.

💭 Prediction

Our assessment here is that Western United could find themselves up against it to put one past this Brisbane Roar outfit who we think might well get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.

We therefore fancy a good tussle with a 1-0 victory for Brisbane Roar when the full-time whistle blows.

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Peter Guest, 02:32 14/03/2023