📊 Form Guide

Melbourne City

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Melbourne City will play in this match following on from a 1-1 Final Series tied result vs Western United.

In that match, Melbourne City managed 52% possession and 23 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer for Melbourne City was Aziz Behich (20'). At the other end, Western United had 11 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Noah Botić (66') was the scorer for Western United.

Fixtures with Melbourne City have often been absorbing affairs recently with plenty of scoring being the norm. Over their past six games alone, the sum of 20 goals have gone in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 14 of those coming from Melbourne City. Still, we’ll just have to find out if the trend will persist in this next match or not.

Melbourne Victory

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Melbourne Victory will come into the clash after a 0-2 Final Series win with the eclipse of Auckland FC in their last fixture.

In that match, Melbourne Victory had 45% possession and 12 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. For Melbourne Victory, goals were scored by Zinédine Machach (55') and Bruno Fornaroli (60'). On the other side, Auckland FC got 10 shots at goal with 3 on target.

The stats don’t lie, and Melbourne Victory have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 6 goals in all. In defence, Melbourne Victory have clearly had some problems.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their past head to head meetings dating back to 17/02/2024 shows that Melbourne City have won 0 of these games & Melbourne Victory 2, with the tally of drawn games standing at 4.

An aggregate of 15 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 for City and 9 belonging to Victory. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The previous league meeting between these clubs was A-League match day 20 on 22/02/2025 when the final score was Melbourne Victory 2-2 Melbourne City.

In that game, Melbourne Victory had 55% possession and 14 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The goalscorers were Zinédine Machach (45') and Rodrigues (48').

Melbourne City had 16 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Marco Tilio (5') and Kai Trewin (70') scored.

The match was refereed by Jonathon Barreiro.

📰 Team News: Melbourne City

The Melbourne City manager Aurelio Vidmar doesn’t have any fitness worries whatsoever ahead of this clash owing to a fully injury-free squad to pick from.

📰 Team News: Melbourne Victory

Owing to a fully healthy group ready to go, the Melbourne Victory boss Arthur Diles has no fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that Melbourne Victory are likely to put one past this Melbourne City side, but that possibly won’t be enough to prevent defeat.

We can see a close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Melbourne City at the end of the match. Definitely a tough call.

Andre Moura, 09:00 31/05/2025