📊 Form Guide

Melbourne Victory

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Melbourne Victory will be hoping for a repeat of their last result, following a 1-2 A-League success over Macarthur FC.

In that match, Melbourne Victory had 50% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 4 on target. For Melbourne Victory, goals were scored by Ryan Teague (4') and Kasey Bos (36'). Macarthur FC got 16 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Chris Ikonomidis (68') scored for Macarthur FC.

It’s not been often in recent games where Melbourne Victory haven’t conceded. In fact, Melbourne Victory have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 12 goals in the process.

Heading into this contest, Melbourne Victory have left without a victory over Newcastle United Jets in their last 2 matches in the league.

Newcastle United Jets

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Western Sydney Wanderers in A-League competition, Newcastle United Jets and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Newcastle United Jets had 40% possession and 9 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. For their opponents, Western Sydney Wanderers got 14 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Zac Sapsford (57') scored for Western Sydney Wanderers.

Indicating their bias toward high-scoring matches, we’ve had goals 29 times in the last six matches in which Newcastle United Jets have sent out their troops, yielding a mean average of 4.83 goals for each fixture. Opposing teams have managed 15 of this grand total. We will just have to see if that trend can be continued on in this game.

Looking at their past form shows that Newcastle United Jets:

• are winless against Melbourne Victory in games played away from home for the previous 2 league games.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head meetings going back to 16/04/2022 tells us that Melbourne Victory have won 3 of them & Newcastle United Jets 2, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

Those games weren’t short on goals, either, with 23 overall which averages out at 3.83 goals per match.

The last league contest featuring these sides was A-League match day 18 on 08/02/2025 when the final score was Newcastle United Jets 3-0 Melbourne Victory.

That day, Newcastle United Jets had 43% possession and 10 shots on goal with 3 on target. Goals were scored by Kosta Grozos (99'), Clayton Taylor (104') and Lachlan Rose (110').

Melbourne Victory had 18 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target.

The referee was Daniel Elder.

📰 Team News: Melbourne Victory

Reno Piscopo (Calf problems) and Mitchell Langerak (Foot injury) won’t be able to feature for Melbourne Victory boss Arthur Diles.

ℹ️ Team News: Newcastle United Jets

Out of a mainly healthy group, there is just the one fitness worry for the Newcastle United Jets manager Robert Stanton to be concerned with. Oscar Fryer (Cruciate ligament tear) misses out for this game.

💭 Prediction

We’re inclined to think that Melbourne Victory are likely to get a lot of shots on goal and make them count.

Conversely, Newcastle United Jets could well struggle to break down their defence although we do see them getting the chances to score, too.

We reckon that it will be a decent 3-1 winning score for Melbourne Victory at the end of this one.

Lucas Pereira, 06:03 04/05/2025