We at Hintwise.com are expecting a one-sided game. Melbourne City has gained 5 wins, 2 draws and 1 losses from the last 8 games. Last 3 HOME games show us 2 wins, 1 draws and 0 losses. Their last game at HOME was on 26. August against Western United, resulting in home win (2-0). Last 8 matches of Western United show us 4 wins, 1 draws and 3 losses. Last 5 AWAY games are: 3 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. The last AWAY game was on 26. August against Melbourne City and that ended with home win (2-0). From this data, we see two teams with very similar stats and a possible DRAW. Our football prediction for 1X2: pick DRAW!
Expecting an interesting game between High ranking Melbourne City and Medium ranking team Western United. Melbourne City's last 10 HOME games against Medium ranking teams: 7 wins, 2 draws and 1 losses. Western United AWAY performance against High ranking teams: 5 wins, 0 draws and 3 losses from last 8 AWAY games. Melbourne City's scoring power is 1.8 goals per game vs Western United's 1.3. Looking at the defensive side, Melbourne City is performing 1 and Western United 1 goals conceded on average per each game. Taking all the Ranking-based facts into account, we expect Melbourne City being somewhat superior and probably wins the match. Our football prediction for 1X2: Melbourne City to win! Medium confidence.
Last 8 games of Melbourne City show us 3 Over 2.5 Goals and 5 Under 2.5 Goals. Last 8 matches of Western United have seen 3 Over 2.5´s and 5 Under 2.5´s. When we look at the ranking-based O/U 2.5 stats of Melbourne City it shows us 6 Overs and 4 Unders in the last 10 HOME games against teams who perform in similar way and who have same ranking as Western United. Western United has had 2 Over 2.5´s and 6 Under 2.5´s in their last 8 AWAY encounters against teams with ranking nearly the same as Melbourne City. Melbourne City is averaging 2 goals in their home games while Western United makes about 1 goals away from home. Taking both numbers together we get 3 goals per match between the teams. Melbourne City concedes 0.67 goals on average and Western United 0.8. Both teams´s stats combined, we get a total of 1.47 goals conceded per match. With these statistics, we guess a total score of 2.2 goals per match. History shows that 37.5% of games end Over 2.5 for Melbourne City and 37.5% for Western United. When trying to give a proper Over/Under 2.5 football prediction , I would say it is a tight and defence-oriented game where the best OU 2.5 football prediction would be UNDER 2.5 GOALS. High stakes.
From Melbourne City's last 8 encounters 3 have been with both teams scoring a goal and 5 only one team scoring or no goals at all. From Western United's last 8 games, it is 3 with both teams scoring and 5 with only one team/no score. Considering the rank-based BTTS stats, Melbourne City had 4 games where both teams scored and 6 where at least one did not. For Western United, we have seen 2 BTTS YES and 6 NO's. There is a 75% chance of Melbourne City scoring today and 62.5% for Western United scoring today. Probability of conceding a goal is 50% for Melbourne City and 62.5% for Western United. Looking at the numbers, we predict that it is quite unclear if BTTS-YES or NO. Hard to predict anything. Football prediction for BTTS: no bet!