📊 Form Guide

Melbourne Victory

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Melbourne Victory will play in this game following on from a 1-1 A-League drawn match against Brisbane Roar.

In that match, Melbourne Victory managed 61% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Melbourne Victory was Kasey Bos (97'). For their opponents, Brisbane Roar got 12 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Henry Hore (20') scored for Brisbane Roar.

In their preceding 6 fixtures, Arthur Diles's Melbourne Victory have found the net a total of 8 times which gives them an average number of goals per match of 1.33.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Melbourne Victory:

• are winless against Central Coast Mariners in their last 4 league games.
• have not been beaten in their last 3 home league matches.

Central Coast Mariners

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Following on from a losing effort in their last game against Western United in A-League competition, Central Coast Mariners and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Central Coast Mariners had 51% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 3 on target. On the other side, Western United had 16 attempts at goal with 10 of them on target. Noah Botić (52'), Tomoki Imai (76' Own goal), Luke Vickery (81') and Michael Ruhs (97') scored for Western United.

The stats don’t lie, and Central Coast Mariners have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 14 goals in all. In defence, Central Coast Mariners just haven’t been too solid at all.

Their previous form shows that Central Coast Mariners:

• are unbeaten in their last 4 away league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 19/03/2023 shows that Melbourne Victory have won 1 of these games & Central Coast Mariners 2, with the number of drawn games standing at 3.

An aggregate of 13 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 6 of them from Victory and 7 belonging to Mariners. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.

The previous league fixture between the two was A-League match day 1 on 18/10/2024 and the score finished Central Coast Mariners 0-0 Melbourne Victory.

On that occasion, Central Coast Mariners managed 53% possession and 13 shots at goal with 1 on target.

Melbourne Victory had 11 shots at goal with 1 on target.

The referee was Alireza Faghani.

📋 Team News: Melbourne Victory

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just the sole fitness concern for the Melbourne Victory gaffer Arthur Diles to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust group of players. Jack Duncan (concussion) misses out.

📋 Team News: Central Coast Mariners

Central Coast Mariners manager Mark Jackson has not got a full squad to pick from. Ryan Edmondson (unknown injury) and Brad Tapp (Cruciate ligament injury) are not ready for selection.

💡 Prediction

In this match, Melbourne Victory will probably be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

At the same time, Central Coast Mariners may well find it hard to get shooting opportunities but we can see them managing to get on the scoresheet.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a 3-1 winning score for Melbourne Victory at full-time.

Lucas Pereira, 08:06 08/03/2025