Melbourne City will come up against Western United in Saturday’s big Final Series fixture.
Our full set of predictions, statistics and match poll for Melbourne City v Western United can be seen below (including the best match odds).
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Melbourne City
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Melbourne City will be looking for a repeat result of a 0-3 Final Series victory over Western United.
In that match, Melbourne City had 50% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For Melbourne City, the goals were scored by Germán Ferreyra (16'), Yonatan Cohen (54') and Mathew Leckie (72'). On the other side, Western United had 13 shots on goal with 4 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
Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes going back to 21/10/2023 shows that Melbourne City have won 5 of these and Western United 1, with the number of drawn results standing at 0.
In all, 13 goals were yielded between them in this period, with 10 for City and 3 netted by The West. That’s an average goals per game of 2.17.
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Team News: Melbourne City
Samuel Souprayen (Calf problems), James Jeggo (Sore muscles), Andrew Nabbout (Cruciate ligament tear), Jayden Necovski (Cruciate ligament tear) and James Nieuwenhuizen (Cruciate ligament injury) won’t be available 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 best odds for this match?
Turning to the betting odds on the full-time result market, putting your money on Melbourne City is available for 1.95, going for the game finishing all-square is 3.8 and taking a punt on the winning team to be Western United will get you 3.6. They are the best returns being offered at the current time.
Andre Moura,
22:00 23/05/2025
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.