This Friday’s A-League action sees Western United make the trip to face Perth Glory at the HBF Park. It is a crucial match for the home side as they are just one place from the bottom of the table with their opponents taking the last available qualification spot.
Perth Glory come into this game in poor form having won only once in their five most recent games. They have been very leaky in defence, conceding 11 goals in the time that they have only managed to put in three at the other end of the pitch. Western United on the other hand have has a much better ruin-in over their last five games. They are unbeaten in their last four games and head into this Friday’s match with three consecutive wins. Showing some great displays, it could be a tough challenge for Perth playing a team so high in confidence.
Formation: 4-4-2
Predicted Line-Up: Cameron Cook; Riley Warland, Andriano Lebib, Tomislav Mrcela, Josh Risden; Khoa Ngo, Taras Gomulka, Nicholas Pennington, Trent Ostler; David Williams, Adam Taggart (c)
Perth Glory have not had an amazing start to the season, finding themselves one place from rock bottom of the A-League table. After 10 games they sit in 12th place with one win, seven losses and two draws. Those matches have left them with five points, a single point behind 11th placed Newcastle Jets and three points clear of last placed Brisbane Roar. Stepping up this season for The Glory has been striker and club captain Adam Taggart. He has found the back of the net twice times and provided an assist in the nine games he’s featured in this season. All the Perth Glory fans will be hoping that he can be relied on once more and try and grab another goal in the attempt to beat the tough side of Western United this Friday.
Formation: 4-4-2
Predicted Line-Up: Matt Sutton; Charbel Shamoon, Dylan Leonard, Tomoki Imai, Tate Russell; Abel Walatee, Angus Thurgate, Rhys Bozinovski, Riku Danzaki; Noah Botic, Hiroshi Ibusuki
Unlike their opponents, Western United are having a great start to the season, finding themselves holding the last qualification place. After 10 games they sit in sixth place with four wins, three losses and three draws. Those matches have left them with 15 points, sharing that tally with two other teams but goal difference the key factor as to why they are not higher up the table. In the goals for Western has been striker Hiroshi Ibusuki. The 33 year old has put his name upon the scoresheet five times this season as well as providing an assist in the 10 A-League games so far. With Perth in such bad for, Ibusuki and the rest of the Western United players have a great chance of capitalising on this opportunity and make to most of trying to score a handful of goals to hope that goal difference isn’t still an issue for them in the future. This Friday could get embarrassing for Perth Glory is United are in top form/
The last five faceoffs have been split in the favour of Western United Milan, winning all five of the last five matches against Perth Glory. Weighing up the form that each side is currently in and it seems like Western United have earned themselves another win in this fixture.
22nd November 2024 – Perth Glory 1-3 Western United – A-League
21st April 2024 – Perth Glory 3-4 Western United – A-League
2nd March 2024 – Western United 1-0 Perth Glory – A-League
29th April 2023 – Perth Glory 1-2 Western United – A-League
4th March 2023 – Western United 2-1 Perth Glory – A-League
Western United have been so dominant in this fixture as proven by the five out of five wins in the most recent games. Perth Glory have struggled in the opening couple of games and that leaves them vulnerable to losing once more.
For that reason, our betting experts have gone with Western United To Win as our best value tip for this game.
Odds of 5/6 mean that a £10 bet has the potential to return up to £18.33 in this match.
(odds subject to change)
Perth Glory 1-2 Western United
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