OPTA Data have crunched the numbers ahead of Saturday night’s match against Central Coast Mariners at CommBank Stadium.
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- Western Sydney Wanderers FC have lost only one of their last eight A-League Men games against the Central Coast Mariners in Sydney (W4 D3) and have scored exactly two goals in seven of those eight fixtures.
- Western Sydney Wanderers FC have won four of their last five A-League Men games at CommBank Stadium (L1) including their last two on the bounce; though, they have never won more than two straight games at the venue despite this being the 60th time they’ve played there in the competition.
- The Central Coast Mariners picked up a 3-0 win over Brisbane Roar FC at Suncorp Stadium in their last away game in the A-League Men after having been winless in their first three away games of the 2023/24 season (D1 L2).
- No team has had more big scoring chances in the 2023/24 A-League Men season than the Central Coast Mariners (34), who have converted 47{d27fecd2aab8556c4f94c40a7029c11f3747289a19d4761b6980018407b307cc} of those 34 chances into goals (16/34).
- Western Sydney Wanderers FC have a cross accuracy of 35{d27fecd2aab8556c4f94c40a7029c11f3747289a19d4761b6980018407b307cc} in the 2023/24 A-League Men, the highest of any team in the competition and six percentage points higher than second-ranked Brisbane Roar FC (29{d27fecd2aab8556c4f94c40a7029c11f3747289a19d4761b6980018407b307cc}).
- The Central Coast Mariners have a crossing accuracy of 23{d27fecd2aab8556c4f94c40a7029c11f3747289a19d4761b6980018407b307cc} from open play in the 2023/24 A-League Men season, the second highest of any team in the competition behind only Western Sydney Wanderers FC (27{d27fecd2aab8556c4f94c40a7029c11f3747289a19d4761b6980018407b307cc}).
- Marcelo (Western Sydney Wanderers FC) has made 15 headed shots at goal this A-League Men season, more than any other player in the competition, while teammates Valentino Yuel (2), Nicolas Milanovic (2), and Marcus Antonsson (2) are three of only four players to have scored multiple headed goals this season.
- Angel Torres (Central Coast Mariners) has an 80{d27fecd2aab8556c4f94c40a7029c11f3747289a19d4761b6980018407b307cc} success rate from his 20 tackles this A-League Men season, the highest success rate of any player to have made more than 11 tackles.
