It’s almost time for the Melbourne City vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima AFC Champions League Elite match which is scheduled to kick off very soon, and the team sheets are in.
First off, the starting line-up for Melbourne City which has been officially confirmed as:
Melbourne City
Patrick Beach #33
Goalkeeper
Height: 1.84m
Weight: 75kg
Age: 22
Nationality: Australia
Place of birth: Australia
Aziz Behich
Defender
Height: 1.72m
Weight: 66kg
Age: 34
Nationality: Australia
Place of birth: Melbourne, Australia
Kai Trewin #27
Defender
Height: 1.78m
Weight: 72kg
Age: 24
Nationality: Australia
Place of birth: Batemans Bay, Australia
Germán Ferreyra #22
Defender
Height: 1.78m
Weight: 74kg
Age: 29
Nationality: Argentina
Place of birth: González Catán, Argentina
Samuel Souprayen #26
Defender
Height: 1.87m
Weight: 77kg
Age: 36
Nationality: France
Place of birth: France
Nathaniel Atkinson #13
Defender
Height: 1.81m
Weight: 72kg
Age: 26
Nationality: Australia
Place of birth: Launceston, Australia
Andreas Kuen #30
Midfielder
Height: 1.75m
Weight: 72kg
Age: 30
Nationality: Austria
Place of birth: Austria
Kavian Rahmani #47
Forward
Height: 1.78m
Weight: 70kg
Age: 18
Nationality: Australia
Place of birth: Australia
Mathew Leckie
Forward
Height: 1.82m
Weight: 82kg
Age: 34
Nationality: Australia
Place of birth: Melbourne, Australia
Takeshi Kanamori #7
Forward
Height: 1.71m
Weight: 66kg
Age: 31
Nationality: Japan
Place of birth: Fukuoka, Japan
Max Caputo #17
Forward
Height: 1.82m
Weight: 74kg
Age: 20
Nationality: Australia
Place of birth: Australia
The starting line-up for Sanfrecce Hiroshima has also been confirmed as follows:
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Keisuke Osako #1
Goalkeeper
Height: 1.86m
Weight: 86kg
Age: 26
Nationality: Japan
Place of birth: Kagoshima, Japan
Shunki Higashi #24
Defender
Height: 1.8m
Weight: 69kg
Age: 25
Nationality: Japan
Place of birth: Japan
Shuto Nakano #15
Defender
Height: 1.82m
Weight: 76kg
Age: 25
Nationality: Japan
Place of birth: Japan
Sho Sasaki #19
Defender
Height: 1.77m
Weight: 70kg
Age: 35
Nationality: Japan
Place of birth: Zama, Japan
Ju-sung Kim
Defender
Height: 1.86m
Weight: 76kg
Age: 24
Nationality: Korea Republic
Place of birth: Cheongju, Korea Republic
Hayato Araki #4
Defender
Height: 1.85m
Weight: 75kg
Age: 28
Nationality: Japan
Place of birth: Kadoma, Japan
Satoshi Tanaka #14
Midfielder
Height: 1.73m
Weight: 67kg
Age: 23
Nationality: Japan
Place of birth: Nagano, Japan
Yotaro Nakajima #35
Midfielder
Height: 1.73m
Weight: 69kg
Age: 19
Nationality: Japan
Place of birth: Japan
Hayao Kawabe #6
Midfielder
Height: 1.78m
Weight: 70kg
Age: 30
Nationality: Japan
Place of birth: Hiroshima, Japan
Marcos Júnio Lima dos Santos #10
Also known as Júnior
Midfielder
Height: 1.67m
Weight: 63kg
Age: 32
Nationality: Brazil
Place of birth: Gama, Brazil
Kosuke Kinoshita
Forward
Height: 1.82m
Weight: 85kg
Age: 30
Nationality: Japan
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
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