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Melbourne Victory vs Sydney FC: A-League live scores, blog

26th January, 2013
Teams

Melbourne Victory

1. Tando Velaphi
3. Adama Traore
5. Mark Milligan
6. Leigh Broxham
8. Jonathan Bru
9. Marcos Flores
10. Archie Thompson
11. Marco Rojas
13. Diogo Ferreira
14. Billy Celeski
18. Francesco Stella
22. Jess Makarounas
23. Adrian Leijer
24. Nick Ansell
25. Luke O’Dea
26. Andrew Nabbout
39. Nathan Coe

Two to be omitted

Sydney FC

20. Vedran Janjetovic
2. Sebastian Ryall
3. Fabio
6. Jason Culina
7. Brett Emerton
8. Adam Griffiths
9. Paul Reid
10. Alessandro Del Piero
12. Blake Powell
13. Tiago Calvano
15. Terry McFlynn
17. Terry Antonis
18. Trent McClenahan
21. Yairo Yau
22. Ali Abbas
23. Rhyan Grant
29. Joel Griffiths
33. Matthew Nash

Three to be omitted

Kick-Off: 5.30pm AEDT
Venue: AAMI Park
Referee: Chris Beath
Last Time: Sydney FC 2-3 Melbourne Victory
History: Victory 8, Sydney 6, Drawn 11
Betting: $1.77 Melbourne, $3.80 Draw, $3.85 Sydney
TV: Fox Sports 1 (LIVE)
Melbourne Victory's Archie Thompson celebrates scoring (AAP Image/Paul Miller)
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26th January, 2013
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Sydney FC will head south full of confidence after last weekend’s 7-1 win when they face Melbourne Victory this afternoon to kick off an A-League Australia Day triple-header. We’ll have minute-by-minute updates from 5.30pm AEDT.

The sleeping giant, it seems, has finally awoken.

An unrelenting burst of five goals in 28 minutes, which saw Alessandro Del Piero net his first A-League hattrick, kickstarted Sydney FC’s stop-start season, and they went on to romp to a 7-1 victory in front of their home fans.

With new signing Joel Griffiths and Jason Culina also finding themselves on the scoresheet, the rout of Wellington was indicative of a side who have the necessary threats to challenge any A-League outfit on their day.

They’ll get a good measure of exactly how they are travelling this afternoon when they face a Melbourne Victory side sitting comfortably in third place.

Ange Postecoglou’s side have continued to build through the season, and a win over Sydney this afternoon would lift them above Adelaide into third position and only five points behind A-League leaders Central Coast.

After commanding performances last weekend, both Melbourne and Sydney will name virtually unchanged lineups and with no real injuries to speak of, we should be treated to a clash between two full-strength, in-form sides here.

Both sides possess serious attacking weapons – Rojas, Flores and Thompson for the home side and Del Piero, Griffiths and Culina for the Sky Blues – but the key to this one could be how the two sides’ defences stand up.

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Sydney FC hold the worst defensive record in the A-League, and while Melbourne Victory’s back four has improved, they’ve also leaked 24 goals in 17 matches.

Sydney will come into this one expecting another strong performance after last week and if Tiago and Adam Griffiths can stand up at the back, they could get another result here.

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