On the 22nd of October, Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City will play a match in Melbourne in a meeting of these two closely matched A-League teams in the ever popular Melbourne derby. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 16 degrees, a perfect day for football. In their last match, 6th placed Melbourne Victory, recorded a 0-1 loss against Western Sydney Wanderers. Tomislav Mrčela struck first for Western Sydney Wanderers in the 41st minute, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else At the end of 90 a dissapointed Melbourne Victory couldn’t manage to score, and Western Sydney Wanderers took the shutout win. Melbourne Victory is looking for direction having 1 win and 1 losses in their last 10 matches, while 1st placed Melbourne City is fresh off their 2-0 shutout win against Brisbane Roar. MacLaren struck first for Melbourne City in the 22nd minute on a feed from Andrew Nabbout, then MacLaren added another in the 38th minute from the penalty spot In the end, Brisbane Roar was frustrated by Melbourne City’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Melbourne City ended the match with the shutout victory. Melbourne City is looking for direction having earned 14 points in their last 10 matches.
This will be the first match for these two teams against eachother this season. Last season Melbourne Victory won the head to head battle with 1 win and 2 draws.
MacLaren has been on a hot streak lately. In the last five games, the attacker has scored four goals for Melbourne City. Jake Brimmer has been the most prolific scorer on Melbourne Victory in his last 5 matches with three goals.