Just for fun, here's a PPG table (teams above and below are surely irrelevant to us), along with PPG in the last 5 games:
3. Western United - 1.62 / 1.6
4. Melbourne City - 1.6 / 1.2
5. Victory - 1.56 / 1.2
6. Sydney - 1.47 / 1
7. Macarthur - 1.47 / 1.4
8. WSW - 1.38 / 1.4
9. Nix - 1.27 / 1.2
10. CCM - 1.24 / 1.4
Given Western United have the best overall record as well as the best record in the last 5, they are likely out of our reach.
We need to outperform 4 of the remaining 6 teams in that list for the rest of the season. Seems that despite our poor run recently, only half of those 6 sides have picked up more points in the last 5 games than us. Mathematically, this looks achievable with any sort of uptick in form.
But that is only if you ignore the fact that we have just had two very easy games at home and now have two very tough away games back to back. We also only have 4 of our remaining 11 games at home...
Edit: updated after the WU/Macarthur draw tonight.
3. Western United - 1.62 / 1.6
4. Melbourne City - 1.6 / 1.2
5. Victory - 1.56 / 1.2
6. Sydney - 1.47 / 1
7. Macarthur - 1.47 / 1.4
8. WSW - 1.38 / 1.4
9. Nix - 1.27 / 1.2
10. CCM - 1.24 / 1.4
Given Western United have the best overall record as well as the best record in the last 5, they are likely out of our reach.
We need to outperform 4 of the remaining 6 teams in that list for the rest of the season. Seems that despite our poor run recently, only half of those 6 sides have picked up more points in the last 5 games than us. Mathematically, this looks achievable with any sort of uptick in form.
But that is only if you ignore the fact that we have just had two very easy games at home and now have two very tough away games back to back. We also only have 4 of our remaining 11 games at home...
Edit: updated after the WU/Macarthur draw tonight.