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Sydney FC will be visiting AAMI Park on Tuesday for the A-League meeting with home side Melbourne City.
View all Melbourne City v Sydney FC tips, stats and our pre-match poll below (plus the best game odds).
📏 Form Guide
Melbourne City
WLWLLL 📉
Melbourne City won’t want a repeat of their last result here after a 1-0 A-League defeat in their last game at the hands of Newcastle United Jets.
Valentino Yuel (40') scored for Newcastle United Jets.
It’s been a rare occasion in recent times that Melbourne City haven’t conceded. In fact, City have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 10 goals along the way. In any event, we’ll just have to find out if such a trend will be maintained here in this game.
Sydney FC
WDLWWD
In the game prior to this, Sydney FC drew 0-0 in the A-League tie with Brisbane Roar.
Steve Corica's Sydney FC have found the back of the net a total of 8 times throughout their most recent 6 matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those same matches equals 5.
Heading into this contest, Sydney FC are undefeated in their previous 4 league matches away from home.
👥 Head to head
An examination of their most recent head to head clashes stretching back to 02/11/2018 shows that Melbourne City have won 2 of these games & Sydney FC 4, with the tally of draws being 0.
In all, 13 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 5 from City and 8 for The Sky Blues. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.
📰 Team News: Melbourne City
Melbourne City manager Patrick Kisnorbo has no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game with a completely healthy group available to select from.
ℹ️ Team News: Sydney FC
With a fully injury-free squad to choose from, Sydney FC manager Steve Corica doesn’t have any fitness worries to report coming into this clash.
🔮 Prediction
Our assessment is that Sydney FC and Melbourne City should play out a closely-fought contest here.
Shouldn’t be much in it, and a draw looks quite a realistic result. We’re therefore tipping a very even match with a 1-1 draw when the referee blows the full-time whistle.
Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.
Renata Leite, 11:14 21/02/2021

⚽️ Team Focus:
Melbourne City
Formed: 2009
Stadium: AAMI Park (30,050)
Captain: Scott Jamieson
Chairman: Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager: Patrick Kisnorbo
Competitions: A-League position 10
🔑 Key Man: Jamie Maclaren

Customarily deployed in the Striker position, Jamie Maclaren was born in Melbourne, Australia. Having made his senior debut playing for Perth Glory in the 2013 - 2014 season, the skilful Forward has scored a sum of 3 league goals in this A-League 2020 - 2021 campaign to date from a total of 6 appearances.
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8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 | WDDWD |
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6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | DLWWD |
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9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | -1 | 11 | WDWDW |
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8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -5 | 10 | WLLLW |
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5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | WLLWW |
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6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | LWDLW |
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6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 6 | LWLLL |
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7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -4 | 5 | LWLLD |
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7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -8 | 4 | WDLLL |
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Adrián Luna | 2 |
Connor Metcalfe | 1 |
Craig Noone | 1 |
Kosta Barbarouses | 3 |
Patrick Wood | 3 |
Miloš Ninković | 2 |
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