Brisbane Roar will host Adelaide United this Sunday in another exciting A-League game of the 2021/22 season.
Venue: Dolphin Stadium (Brisbane)
Key Statistics
Brisbane Roar have kept two clean sheets in their last two home games.
The hosts have won just one of their last seven games (D2, L4).
Adelaide United are winless in their last four away games (D3, L1).
The visitors have kept one clean sheet from their last six games.
Head to head
Adelaide United have a good record against Brisbane Roar and have won 21 out of 49 matches played between the two teams while Brisbane Roar have managed only 18 victories against Adelaide United.
Latest performances in all competitions
Brisbane Roar: W-D-L-L-D
Adelaide United: D-D-L-W-L
Brisbane Roar
Brisbane Roar will look to make it two wins in a row when they play Adelaide United on Sunday.
The hosts beat Perth Glory 1-0 in their last outing to move off the foot of the table into eleventh place.
The only goal of the game was scored by midfielder Henry Hore in the 77th minute and was enough to see off Perth Glory.
Brisbane Roar showed their quality in that match as they controlled more of the ball and registered a total of 28 goal attempts (nine on target).
They will be desperate for a repeat performance and result on Sunday evening to take themselves further away from the bottom places into the top six.
Possible Brisbane Roar starting line-ups
Macklin Freke; Nicholas Olsen, Kai Trewin, Scott Neville, Jack Hingert; Jesse Daley, Ville Matti Steinman; Jay O’Shea, Alex Parsons, Nikola Mileusnic; Cyrus Dehmie.
Injured: None
Doubtful: None
Suspended: None
Adelaide United
After almost a month’s absence from competitive football, Adelaide United returned to league action on Wednesday against Melbourne City.
But they could only draw 2-2 with the defending champions. Equalisers from George Blackwood and Hiroshi Ibusuki got the point for Adelaide United after Andrew Nabbout and James McClaran had given the visitors a lead.
With the draw, Adelaide United come into this tie sitting in seventh, one point shy of sixth.
They will be looking to win this game and push themselves into the top half of the table.
Judging by their recent record against Brisbane Roar, which reads; W2, D1, the visitors will fancy their chances of taking maximum points from this game.
Possible Adelaide United starting line-ups
Joe Gauci; Ryan Kitto, George Timotheou, Jacob Tratt, Javi Lopez; Juande, Isaias Sanchez, Craig Goodwin; George Blackwood, Bernardo Oliveira, Stefan Mauk.
Injured: Kusini Yengi, Nick Ansell, Nathan Konstandopoulos
Doubtful: None
Suspended: None
Prediction
Brisbane Roar 1-2 Adelaide United
