DomainJava.com – Melbourne City vs Wellington Phoenix prediction in the A-League match, Melbourne City and Wellington Phoenix really need the best squad ahead of their clash in the continuation of the Australian League.
Both Melbourne City and Wellington Phoenix really need points to improve their position in the Australian League standings.
The match between Melbourne City and Wellington Phoenix will be held on Friday (3/1/2025) at 13.00 WIB at the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium.
Currently Melbourne City is in fifth position in the Australian League with 15 points. They need additional points to compete at the top of the standings.
In this match, Melbourne City managed to control 65% of the ball possession and had 11 shots on target with 3 of them on target. Melbourne City’s goal scorer was Samuel Souprayen (33′). For their opponents, Central Coast Mariners fired 6 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Nathan Paull (68′) scored for Central Coast Mariners.
The match featuring Melbourne City is concentrating on being an exciting match recently with plenty of goalmouth action expected to occur. Over their last six games alone, a total of 20 goals have been scored for both teams combined (an average of 3.33 goals per game) with 13 of these scored by Melbourne City.
Coming into this encounter, Melbourne City had not won at home in their last 3 league matches.
Wellington Phoenix will attend this encounter on the back of a 2-1 A-League win as they beat Newcastle United Jets in their reverse fixture.
In that match, Wellington Phoenix managed to control 44% of ball possession and had 11 shots on target with 3 on target. For Wellington Phoenix, goals were scored by Kosta Barbarouses (2′) and Paulo Retre (59′). Newcastle United Jets fired 20 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Ben Gibson (73′) scores for Newcastle United Jets.
Over their last 6 matches, Wellington Phoenix have scored 9 goals. Wellington Phoenix also managed to score goals on each of these occasions. At that time, their defender had scored 9 goals scored by his opponent. Regardless of previous results, we just have to find out if this trend will be maintained in future games.
An examination of their past head-to-head clashes since May 9, 2022 tells us that Melbourne City have won 4 of these matches & Wellington Phoenix 1, with a draw count of 1.
A combined total of 18 goals were scored between them in these matches, with 12 for City and 6 from The Nix. The average number of goals per match is 3.
The last league contest featuring these teams was A-League day 20 on 9 March 2024 with the final score being Melbourne City 1-0 Wellington Phoenix.
On that occasion, Melbourne City managed to control 51% of ball possession and 27 attempts on goal with 8 on target. The goal scorer was Samuel Souprayen (58′).
For their opponents, Wellington Phoenix fired 11 shots on goal with 2 of them on target.
This match was led by Alex King..(ed)
(source: Sportsmole)
Melbourne City vs Wellington Phoenix Player Predictions
Melbourne City FC (4-1-4-1): Beach (GK), Talbot, Trewin, Souprayen, Behich, Schriber, Atkinson, Ugarkovic, Cohen, Politidis, Memeti.
Coach: Aurelio Vidmar.
Wellington Phoenix (4-1-4-1): Oluwayemi (GK), Sutton, Wootton, Sherldan, Payne, Pufer, Retre, Nagasawa, Brooke-Smith, Ishige, Barbarouses.
Pelatih: Giancarlo Italiano.
Our assessment is that Wellington Phoenix have the ability to score goals against this Melbourne City side, but it will likely not be as many goals as they can concede.
We predict both teams will score in a 2-1 lead for Melbourne City when the referee blows the final whistle. Hope this is good.
Melbourne City vs Wellington Phoenix Score Prediction: 2-1
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