Who likes a side-serving of edge with their football main course?
Truthfully, probably all of us and that’s just as well because Saturday’s home clash with Melbourne Victory has more simmering revenge narratives, sub-plots and fallen heroes than your average Marvel movie blockbuster.
(Kick-off at Macedonia Park is at 7.30pm, tickets HERE)
But you can’t go into a game of this magnitude without being across the key facts and figures and having the odd bit of random match trivia to throw into polite conversation.
So let us help you out with that…
Darryl Lachman has had more touches (940), played more passes (839) and chalked up more onfield minutes (1080) than any other Glory player this season.
He also boasts the highest passing accuracy percentage in the squad (of players who have featured in more that two games) with 91.2.
Glory are undefeated in their last seven A-League Men games in Western Australia (W4, D3).
The last time the men in purple went longer without an A-League loss in their home state was a 10-game stretch from January to November 2016 (W7, D3).
Victory striker Bruno Fornaroli has been directly involved in nine goals in his nine A-League appearances against Perth Glory (7 goals, 2 assists).
Victory have been caught offside just eight times throughout the 2022/23 A-League Men season, the fewest of any team in the competition.
Glory (13) have been caught offside the second-fewest times of any team.
Diego Castro and Andy Keogh are Glory’s overall joint-top scorers in this fixture having each found the net on seven occasions.
The last 15 A-League meetings between the two clubs have yielded an aggregate of 45 goals at an average of (yes, you’ve worked it already…!) three per game.
There has never been a 0-0 draw in the 50 previous editions of this fixture.
Long-serving midfielder Leigh Broxham continues to be a key cog for Victory this season, registering an accuracy level of 88.1% with his 470 attempted passes and making 25 clearances.
He has been on the winning side in 17 of his 39 appearances against Glory.
Both Glory and Victory have been more effective in the second halves of games this term, with the former scoring 58% of their goals after the break and the latter 70%.
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