📏 Form Guide

Adelaide United

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Adelaide United, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 2-4 A-League victory against Perth Glory.

In that game, Adelaide United managed 54% possession and 18 shots on goal with 9 on target. For Adelaide United, the scorers were Hiroshi Ibusuki (30', 50'), Zach Clough (41') and Stefan Mauk (45'). Perth Glory got 12 shots on goal with 5 on target. Adam Taggart (22', 27') scored for Perth Glory.

Adelaide United have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets lately, although they’ve also found ways to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, Adelaide United have seen their goal breached in 5 of them in addition to managing to get on the scoresheet in 6 of those games. Historical results aside, we will just have to wait and see if that trend shall be replicated in this next match.

Ahead of this clash, Adelaide United are winless against Macarthur FC in their last 2 league games.

Macarthur FC

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of Western United in A-League competition, Macarthur FC and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Macarthur FC had 51% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 5 on target. For Macarthur FC, the scorers were Valère Germain (17') and Ulises Dávila (24'). At the other end, Western United got 26 shots on goal with 10 on target. Riku Danzaki (52'), Michael Ruhs (56', 66') and Matthew Grimaldi (59') scored for Western United.

Illustrating their appetite for productive encounters, goals have been seen as many as 22 times in the last 6 games in which Macarthur FC have sent out their troops, giving a mean average of 3.67 goals each fixture. Their opponents have got 13 of this grand total.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 19/02/2022 shows us that Adelaide United have won 2 of these and Macarthur FC 3, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

A sum of 18 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 7 of them from The Reds and 11 for Macarthur. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.

The last league meeting between these clubs was A-League match day 12 on 08/01/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Adelaide United 1-1 Macarthur FC.

That time, Adelaide United had 56% possession and 19 shots at goal with 4 on target. Their only player to score was Ben Halloran (16').

At the other end, Macarthur FC had 9 shots at goal with 3 on target. Valère Germain (32') scored.

The match was refereed by Jack Morgan.

ℹ️ Team News: Adelaide United

Panagiotis Kikianis (Hamstring injury) and Joshua Cavallo (Muscle injury) won’t be able to feature for Adelaide United boss Carl Veart.

📰 Team News: Macarthur FC

Macarthur FC manager Mile Sterjorvski has to choose a team with limited availability. Kealey Adamson (Ankle injury), Jake McGing (Pelvic injury) and Bernardo Oliveira (Achilles tendon surgery) miss out here. The suspended players who are serving a ban for this game are Jake Hollman and Ulises Dávila.

🧠 Prediction

It certainly seems that Macarthur FC will surely find it tough to be getting goals against a Adelaide United outfit who should score a lot of goals.

We are anticipating a convincing 3-0 victory for Adelaide United at the end of this one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 09:04 12/04/2024