📏 Form Guide

Melbourne Victory

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Melbourne Victory will be hoping to bounce back here following a 4-2 A-League defeat last time out to Western Sydney Wanderers.

In that match, Melbourne Victory had 56% possession and 18 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. For Melbourne Victory, the goalscorers were Nishan Velupillay (34') and Reno Piscopo (41'). On the other side, Western Sydney Wanderers got 21 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Bozhidar Kraev (44'), Brandon Borrello (76'), Nicolas Milanović (87') and Marcus Antonsson (94') scored for Western Sydney Wanderers.

Arthur Diles's Melbourne Victory have hit the target a sum total of 9 times over their prior six outings. Conversely, the tally of goals that have been scored against them in that same time amounts to 10.

Heading into this contest, Melbourne Victory have not been beaten in their last 4 league matches at home.

Adelaide United

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After tasting defeat last time out to Macarthur FC in A-League action, Adelaide United will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Adelaide United had 53% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For Adelaide United, the scorers were Austin Ayoubi (13'), Ryan Kitto (19'), Stefan Mauk (42') and Archie Goodwin (73'). At the other end, Macarthur FC got 9 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Chris Ikonomidis (8'), Kealey Adamson (10'), Luke Brattan (53', 83') and Marin Jakoliš (57') scored for Macarthur FC.

Looking at their form, and Adelaide United have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 15 goals in total. At the back, Adelaide United seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. That pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this next game, of course.

Leading up to this clash, Adelaide United:

• have left without a victory over Melbourne Victory when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 league games. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 14/01/2023 shows us that Melbourne Victory have won 2 of these games and Adelaide United 1, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

16 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 for Victory and 7 being from The Reds. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.67.

The last league encounter between these sides was A-League match day 15 on 18/01/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Adelaide United 3-2 Melbourne Victory.

That day, Adelaide United managed 43% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 4 on target. The goals were scored by Stefan Mauk (31') and Ethan Alagich (71').

Melbourne Victory had 16 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Ryan Teague (18'), Roderick Miranda (45' Own goal) and Rodrigues (66') scored.

The match was refereed by Alireza Faghani.

📋 Team News: Melbourne Victory

Nearly everyone is up for selection, with just a single fitness concern for the Melbourne Victory gaffer Arthur Diles to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy group. Clarismario (unknown injury) misses out.

In our view, Victory look set to kick off with a 4-1-4-1 formation with Mitchell Langerak, Joshua Inserra, Lachlan Jackson, Roderick Miranda, Kasey Bos, Fabian Monge, Daniel Arzani, Zinedine Machach, Reno Piscopo, Nishan Velupillay and Bruno Fornaroli.

📰 Team News: Adelaide United

Adelaide United boss Carl Veart has multiple availability issues to deal with. Max Vartuli (Broken finger), Javi López (Calf injury), Panashe Madanha (Hamstring injury) and Bailey O'Neil (unknown injury) won’t be making appearances.

There’s a good chance that The Reds appear most likely to utilise a 4-3-3 lineup, starting the game with James Delianov, Dylan Pierias, Bart Vriends, Panagiotis Kikianis, Ryan Kitto, Stefan Mauk, Jay Barnett, Ethan Alagich, Jonny Yull, Archie Goodwin and Austin Ayoubi.

🧠 Prediction

Adelaide United certainly have the ability to score a goal against this Melbourne Victory side, although that probably won’t be as many as the goals that they could concede.

Our tip is for a very close game with a 2-1 victory for Melbourne Victory at the end of the match. Should be a good one.

Lucas Pereira, 08:03 29/03/2025