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Melbourne Victory

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Melbourne Victory will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 2-1 A-League victory vs Perth Glory.

In that game, Melbourne Victory had 59% possession and 17 shots on goal with 7 on target. The scorer for Melbourne Victory was Bruno Fornaroli (16', 53'). Perth Glory got 8 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Daniel Bennie (61') scored for Perth Glory.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times where Melbourne Victory have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Melbourne Victory have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 games, giving up 9 goals along the way. Let’s find out whether or not that trend will be continued on here.

Their previous form shows that Melbourne Victory:

• have not lost a league tie with Melbourne City in their previous 2 games.
• have not registered a win against Melbourne City in their last 3 league games.

Melbourne City

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Central Coast Mariners in A-League action, Melbourne City will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Melbourne City had 61% possession and 19 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Melbourne City was Tolgay Arslan (50'). For their opponents, Central Coast Mariners got 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Ángel Torres (54') and Max Balard (93') scored for Central Coast Mariners.

A tendency of at least one team not scoring a goal in games involving Melbourne City has become evident in recent matches. Looking at their last six meetings reveals that it’s occurred 5 times. In these clashes, their opponents have hit a goal tally of 3 while Melbourne City have scored 9.

Going into this encounter, Melbourne City haven’t won away from home in the past 6 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head duels going back to 09/04/2022, it’s been all-even between these two clubs with Melbourne Victory winning 2 of those games, Melbourne City 2 and 2 being drawn in normal time.

A combined total of 13 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 for Victory and 6 netted by City. The average goals per game has been 2.17.

The last league fixture featuring these clubs was A-League match day 17 on 17/02/2024 when it ended Melbourne City 0-0 Melbourne Victory.

In that match, Melbourne City had 46% possession and 6 shots at goal with 3 of them on target.

At the other end, Melbourne Victory had 17 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target.

The referee was Alireza Faghani.

🗞️ Team News: Melbourne Victory

The Melbourne Victory manager Tony Popović has zero fitness worries to speak of coming into this match thanks to a completely healthy group ready to go.

In our view, Victory should go for a 4-2-3-1 system for this game and select Paul Izzo, Jason Geria, Damien Da Silva, Roderick Miranda, Adama Traore, Jake Brimmer, Ryan Teague, Daniel Arzani, Zinedine Machach, Ben Folami and Bruno Fornaroli.

ℹ️ Team News: Melbourne City

Melbourne City manager Aurelio Vidmar has not got a full squad to pick from. Benjamin Mazzeo (Syndesmosis ligament tear), Marco Tilio (Muscle injury), Arion Sulemani (Cruciate ligament tear), Scott Galloway (Calf injury), Nuno Reis (Knock) and Andrew Nabbout (Achilles tendon surgery) are not able to play.

We are inclined to think that City will likely make use of a 4-2-2-2 lineup using Jamie Young, Callum Talbot, Curtis Good, Samuel Souprayen, Vicente Fernandez, James Jeggo, S. Peter Ugarkovic, Leo Natel, Tolgay Arslan, Marin Jakolis and Max Caputo.

🔮 Prediction

In our view, Melbourne City are certainly able to put one past this Melbourne Victory side, however it possibly won’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re predicting a narrow 2-1 winning score for Melbourne Victory after 90 minutes. Should be a good one.

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Andre Moura, 08:16 06/04/2024