📊 Form Guide

Melbourne City

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Melbourne City fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being the 7-0 A-League triumph against Western Sydney Wanderers.

In that game, Melbourne City managed 64% possession and 21 attempts on goal with 12 of them on target. For Melbourne City, goals were scored by Tolgay Arslan (30', 32'), Léo Natel (39'), Max Caputo (42'), Nuno Reis (72'), Jamie Maclaren (77') and Terry Antonis (82'). Western Sydney Wanderers got 12 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target.

Over their last six fixtures, Aurelio Vidmar's Melbourne City have scored a total of 10 times resulting in an average number of goals per match equal to 1.67.

Their past results show that Melbourne City:

• are unbeaten in the league by Newcastle United Jets in their previous 5 games.
• have not been beaten in their last 4 home league matches.

Newcastle United Jets

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Adelaide United in A-League action, Newcastle United Jets will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Newcastle United Jets had 50% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Adelaide United had 17 shots on goal with 8 on target. Luka Jovanović (80') scored for Adelaide United.

Looking at their form, and Newcastle United Jets have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing opposing sides hit 11 goals in total. At the back, Newcastle United Jets can certainly do much better. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to be continued into this match, however.

Taking a look at their past results, Newcastle United Jets:

• have not registered a win against Melbourne City when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 7 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Looking over their past head to head meetings stretching back to 10/06/2021 shows that Melbourne City have won 4 of them and Newcastle United Jets 1, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 1.

A combined total of 19 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 13 of them from City and 6 created by The Jets. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

The previous league contest featuring these clubs was A-League match day 6 on 03/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Newcastle United Jets 0-2 Melbourne City.

In that match, Newcastle United Jets had 45% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 1 on target.

Melbourne City had 13 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Benjamin Mazzeo (12') and Jamie Maclaren (58') scored.

The referee was Shane Skinner.

📰 Team News: Melbourne City

Benjamin Mazzeo (Syndesmosis ligament tear), James Nieuwenhuizen (Hamstring injury), Scott Galloway (Calf injury), Arion Sulemani (Cruciate ligament tear) and Marco Tilio (Hamstring injury) will not be taking part for Melbourne City boss Aurelio Vidmar.

It’s our opinion that City could employ a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game featuring Jamie Young, Callum Talbot, Samuel Souprayen, Nuno Reis, Vicente Fernandez, James Jeggo, S. Peter Ugarkovic, Leo Natel, Tolgay Arslan, Marin Jakolis and Max Caputo.

🗞️ Team News: Newcastle United Jets

Out of a mainly healthy group of players, there’s only the one fitness problem for the Newcastle United Jets manager Rob Stanton to be concerned with. Jacob Dowse (unknown injury) misses out for this game.

We are inclined to think that The Jets seem likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 system with a starting lineup of Ryan Scott, Dane Ingham, Phillip Cancar, Mark Natta, Daniel Wilmering, Callum Timmins, Kostandinos Grozos, Daniel Stynes, Reno Piscopo, Clayton Taylor and A. Stamatelopoulos.

✨ Prediction

We feel that in this game, Melbourne City can and should stay in control for long periods of time and should be able to convert a few of the chances that they create.

Conversely, Newcastle United Jets are also probably going to find it difficult to get a goal of their own although we do think that they will probably end up getting the chances to score, too.

We can therefore see a fairly comfortable 3-1 victory for Melbourne City by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

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Victor Martins, 06:09 30/03/2024