📏 Form Guide

Western United

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Western United, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following the 2-6 A-League triumph over Newcastle United Jets.

For Western United, goals were scored by Noah Botić (6'), Rhys Bozinovski (29', 53'), Riku Danzaki (35'), Angus Thurgate (72' Own goal) and Michael Ruhs (85'). Mark Natta (8' Own goal) and Charles M'Mombwa (65') scored for Newcastle United Jets.

Matches featuring Western United have often been entertaining affairs of late with a lot of goalmouth action being a common characteristic. Over their past 6 clashes, a grand total of 26 goals have flown in for both sides combined (at an average of 4.33 goals per game) with 18 of these accredited to Western United.

Taking a look at their past results, Western United:

• haven't lost in the league to Perth Glory in their last 6 matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 home league matches.

Perth Glory

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After being beaten in their last game against Central Coast Mariners in A-League competition, Perth Glory will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Perth Glory managed 59% possession and 23 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer for Perth Glory was Nicholas Pennington (10'). On the other side, Central Coast Mariners got 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Alou Kuol (5'), Mikael Doka (21') and Christian Theoharous (58') scored for Central Coast Mariners.

The numbers tell their own story, and Perth Glory have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, conceding 12 goals in all. Defensively, Perth Glory have been far from perfect. Let’s see if that trend can be continued on in this game.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A study of their past head to head results stretching back to 04/03/2023 tells us that these encounters have been pretty painful for Perth Glory. They have not managed to get themselves any victories at all while Western United have dominated them, winning in 100% of those match-ups.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 23 in all at an average of 3.83 goals per meeting.

The previous league clash featuring these clubs was A-League match day 12 on 03/01/2025 which ended up with the score at Perth Glory 2-3 Western United.

In that match, Perth Glory had 34% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Goals were scored by Adam Taggart (29') and Jarrod Carluccio (66').

Western United got 16 shots at goal with 7 on target. Matthew Grimaldi (32'), Tate Russell (91') and Jordan Lauton (95') scored.

The match was refereed by Ben Abraham.

🗞️ Team News: Western United

Ben Garuccio (Calf injury) and Abel Walatee (concussion) won’t be available for Western United boss John Aloisi.

It looks as if The West could make use of the 4-4-2 system for this game, utilising Matthew Sutton, Tate Russell, Tomoki Imai, Dylan Leonard, Benjamin Garuccio, Matthew Grimaldi, Rhys Bozinovski, Angus Thurgate, Riku Danzaki, Noah Botic and Hiroshi Ibusuki.

ℹ️ Team News: Perth Glory

Perth Glory boss David Zdrilic has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Zach Lisolajski (unknown injury), Andriano Lebib (unknown injury), Lachlan Wales (unknown injury), Takuya Okamoto (unknown injury) and David Williams (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be playing here.

It’s our belief that Glory might utilise a 4-4-2 system, choosing Oliver Sail, Trent Ostler, Tomislav Mrcela, Tass Mourdoukoutas, Yuto Misao, Nikola Mileusnic, Luke Amos, Nicholas Pennington, William Freney, Jaylan Pearman and Adam Taggart.

💭 Prediction

We feel that in this game, Western United are likely to be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

In contrast, Perth Glory won’t find it easy to score although we do reckon that they could well end up hitting back at some stage, too.

We’re tipping a 3-1 victory for Western United when all’s said and done.

Andre Moura, 06:08 05/04/2025