Week 12 features a match on Sun Jan 15th, where Western Sydney Wanderers will host Melbourne City in a meeting of these two A-League teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 22 degrees, a perfect day for football. Western Sydney Wanderers sits at 3rd place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 0-1 loss against Perth Glory. Keegan Jelacic struck first for Perth Glory in the 59th minute on a feed from David Williams, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Western Sydney Wanderers couldn’t manage to score, and Perth Glory took the shutout win. Western Sydney Wanderers is looking for direction having earned 15 points in their last 10 matches, while melbourne City sits at 1st place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 4-0 shutout win against Western United. Marco Tilio scored the first goal for Melbourne City in the 9th minute, then Leo Lacroix added another on an own goal in the 12th minute In the end, Western United couldn’t muster any offence and Melbourne City ran away with the shutout win. Melbourne City is on a hot streak lately, having won 8 of their last 10.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Melbourne City won the head to head battle with 1 win.
Melbourne City is fortunate enough to have MacLaren in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored 6 goals. Western Sydney Wanderers is lucky enough to have a few offensive weapons, with Oliver Božanić and Yeni N’Gbakoto each having 2 goals in their last 5.