Saturday’s Final Series fixture list sees Melbourne City versus Western United.
All Melbourne City v Western United match predictions, user poll and stats are shown below - plus the latest match odds.
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Melbourne City
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Melbourne City, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 0-3 Final Series victory against Western United.
In that match, Melbourne City managed 50% possession and 13 shots at goal with 4 on target. For Melbourne City, goals were scored by Germán Ferreyra (16'), Yonatan Cohen (54') and Mathew Leckie (72'). For their opponents, Western United got 13 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.
Over their prior 6 games, Aurelio Vidmar's Melbourne City have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a combined total of 14 times, with that being an average number of goals scored per match of 2.33.
Western United
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Illustrating their predisposition for eventful encounters, we’ve seen goals 20 times in the previous 6 matches in which Western United have taken to the pitch, giving an average of 3.33 goals for each clash. Opposition teams have got 11 of those goals.
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Head to head
A look at their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 21/10/2023 shows us that Melbourne City have won 5 of these games & Western United 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.
An aggregate of 13 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 10 of them for City and 3 belonging to The West. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.17.
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Team News: Melbourne City
Samuel Souprayen (Calf problems), James Jeggo (Sore muscles), Nathaniel Atkinson (Calf injury), Jayden Necovski (Cruciate ligament tear), Andrew Nabbout (Cruciate ligament tear) and James Nieuwenhuizen (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be able to feature for Melbourne City gaffer Aurelio Vidmar.
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Prediction
We feel that in this game, Melbourne City will most probably be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.
At the same time, Western United may well struggle to make a breakthrough but we do fancy them managing to get on the scoresheet here.
We’re therefore anticipating a pretty comfortable 3-1 winning score for Melbourne City after 90 minutes.
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⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?
Regarding the latest bookmaker odds on the full-time result market, victory for Melbourne City is available for 1.8, a wager on the game finishing all-square is 3.9 and betting on victory for Western United gets 4. They are the most competitive market prices that can be secured at this very moment.
Andre Moura,
12:00 20/05/2025
Odds correct at time of publishing. All odds subject to change.
⚽️ Team Focus:
Melbourne City
Formed: 2009
Stadium: AAMI Park (30,050)
Captain: Aziz Behich
Chairman: Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Manager: Aurelio Vidmar
Competitions: A-League position 2, Final Series (Semi Finals)
⭐ Star Man: Max Caputo
Mostly playing in the Striker position, Max Caputo was born in Australia. After having played his first senior match for Melbourne City in the 2020 - 2021 season, the skilful Forward has hit 5 league goals in this A-League 2024 - 2025 campaign to date in 12 appearances.