Sydney FC vs Melbourne Victory Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Sydney FC

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Sydney FC won’t want a repeat of their last result here after a 1-0 AFC Champions League defeat last time out to Hoang Anh Gia Lai.

Sydney FC have not been in good attacking form in more recent games. Their goals record equals just 3 vs opponents during their previous 6 outings. In those games, Sydney FC have also seen the number of goals scored against them total 9. Nonetheless, we must now wait to see if the trend might be replicated in this game.

Coming into this contest, Sydney FC haven't been beaten in the league by Melbourne Victory in their last 8 games. Quite a long unbeaten run against them.

Melbourne Victory

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Melbourne Victory come into this clash following a 3-1 A-League win with the defeat of Wellington Phoenix in their previous match.

In that game, Melbourne Victory managed 67% possession and 24 attempts on goal with 9 on target. For Melbourne Victory, goals were scored by Nick D'Agostino (2'), Jake Brimmer (68') and Marco Rojas (78'). On the other side, Wellington Phoenix had 9 shots at goal with 4 on target. Gael Sandoval (26') was the scorer for Wellington Phoenix.

A succession of hard-working performances from the Melbourne Victory defenders has resulted in the number of goals they’ve conceded amounting to 4 from their past 6 outings combined. During the same period of time, their own attack force has managed to score 13.

Pre-game facts show that Melbourne Victory:

• have left without a victory over Sydney FC when having played them away from home in the previous 4 league matches. They'll be keen to stop this run.
• have not been beaten in their last 7 away league matches.

↔️ Head to head

Delving into their past head to head meetings stretching back to 24/01/2020 shows that these encounters have not been kind to Melbourne Victory. They have not managed to register any wins at all whereas Sydney FC have remained in the ascendancy, finishing as winners in 83% of those matches played.

An aggregate of 18 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 15 of them for The Sky Blues and 3 netted by Victory. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.

The last league fixture featuring these clubs was A-League match day 8 on 25/01/2022 which ended up with the score at Melbourne Victory 2-2 Sydney FC.

On that day, Melbourne Victory had 53% possession and 14 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. The goalscorers were Ben Folami (17') and Robbie Kruse (77').

For their opponents, Sydney FC got 20 shots on goal with 6 on target. Miloš Ninković (37') and Bobô (81') scored.

The referee was Mohammed Reza Faghani.

📋 Team News: Sydney FC

Michael Zullo (Calf Problems) and Luke Brattan (Cruciate Ligament Injury) will be missing for Sydney FC boss Steve Corica.

📰 Team News: Melbourne Victory

Thanks to a mainly available squad, there’s just a single fitness issue for the Melbourne Victory gaffer Tony Popović to contend with. Robbie Kruse (Knee Injury) misses out for this game.

🔮 Prediction

Our feeling is that Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC could both end up scoring in a what should be a good tussle with little between the two teams.

Let’s see how it plays out, but a draw is looking likely to us. Therefore, we predict a 1-1 score draw at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 00:44 03/05/2022