📊 Form Guide

Brisbane Roar

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Brisbane Roar will be hoping for a better result after a 3-2 A-League defeat in their last game at the hands of Melbourne City.

In that game, Brisbane Roar managed 35% possession and 3 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. For Brisbane Roar, the goals were scored by Asumah Abubakar (9') and Keegan Jelacic (69'). At the other end, Melbourne City had 24 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Marco Tilio (57'), Max Caputo (61') and Germán Ferreyra (85') scored for Melbourne City.

Brisbane Roar have been conceding pretty frequently lately, although they’ve also found ways to score goals themselves. Over their last 6 matches, Brisbane Roar have seen their goal breached in 6 of them as well as managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those games.

Western United

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Western Sydney Wanderers in A-League competition, Western United and their fans will hope to get a better result this time.

In that match, Western United managed 56% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player to score for Western United was Matthew Sutton (66' Own goal). Western Sydney Wanderers got 15 shots on goal with 6 on target. Alex Gersbach (45') scored for Western Sydney Wanderers.

Showing their involvement in productive matches, the back of the net has been hit 26 times in the prior 6 games in which Western United have played, giving a mean average of 4.33 goals each clash. Opposition teams have managed 7 from this total. It will be interesting to find out whether or not that trend will be sustained here.

Coming into this contest, Western United have not registered a win against Brisbane Roar when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their prior head to head meetings going back to 26/03/2022 shows us that Brisbane Roar have won 1 of these & Western United 3, with the number of drawn games being 2.

A sum of 16 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 7 of them from The Roar and 9 coming from The West. That is an average goals per game value of 2.67.

The previous league meeting between these clubs was A-League match day 10 on 29/12/2024 when it finished Western United 1-0 Brisbane Roar.

In that game, Western United had 47% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Their only player to score was Hiroshi Ibusuki (44').

For their opponents, Brisbane Roar had 14 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Alex King.

ℹ️ Team News: Brisbane Roar

Corey Brown (unknown injury) and Ben Warland (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be playing for Brisbane Roar gaffer Ruben Zadkovich.

📋 Team News: Western United

Thanks to a mainly healthy squad, there’s only the lone fitness problem for the Western United boss John Aloisi to be concerned about. Abel Walatee (concussion) won’t be playing here.

⚡ Prediction

In our view, Western United can have the majority of the possession and should turn some of their chances into goals.

At the same time, Brisbane Roar might well find it difficult to score themselves although we reckon that they could well end up managing to get on the scoresheet as well here.

We’re therefore anticipating a 1-3 margin for Western United at the end of the match.

Peter Guest, 09:11 17/04/2025