Melbourne City FC vs Western United FC: A-League Round 3, live scores

By The Roar / Editor

3rd December, 2021

Melbourne City FC

Match Complete

Western United FC

N. Atkinson	94'
A. Nabbout	63'
	53'	D. Wenzel-Halls
	20'	D. Wenzel-Halls

21	Shots	6
5	On Target	1
11	Fouls	8
9	Corners	4
0	Offsides	1
0	Red Cards	0
2	Yellow Cards	1

Melbourne City will be out to polish up their second-half performances when they face mid-table Western United at AAMI Park. Join The Roar for live scores from 7:45pm AEDT.

The champions keep jumping out of the blocks quickly, grabbing a couple of goals before resting on their laurels and inviting the comeback. Adelaide United scored twice against them late for a 2-2 draw last week and the Roar deserved the same a week earlier. They were eerily similar matches for Patrick Kisnorbo and it is difficult to see the same happening again here.

With Andrew Nabbout and Jamie Maclaren now having opened their goal-scoring accounts for the season, City will be hoping the floodgates are about to open.

Western United could well be up for long periods of defence in attempting to stop that flood of goals occurring and have form in that department after a strong defensive showing against Perth last weekend. Dylan Wenzel-Halls scored for his new club in that match and the team remains undefeated under John Aloisi. That makes for a happy club and supporter base and today presents the opportunity for United to make a serious statement to the league, should they be able to blunt the champions’ attack and manage an unexpected result.

Game information
Venue: AAMI Park
Kick-off: 7:45 pm (AEDT), Saturday 4th December 2021
Live stream: Paramount+
Betting: Melbourne City FC $1.46, Western United FC $6.40 – odds via PlayUp

Teams
Melbourne City FC
Tom Glover, Scott Galloway, Scott Jamieson (c), Nuno Reis, Rostyn Griffiths, Mathew Leckie, Aiden O’Neill, Jamie Maclaren, Florin Berenguer, Nathaniel Atkinson, Andrew Nabbout, Taras Gomulka, Stefan Colakovski, Connor Metcalfe, Curtis Good, Marco Tilio, Matt Sutton, Jordon Hall, Raphael Borges Rodrigues, Kerrin Stokes, Jordan Bos, Anthony Lesiotis, Ahmad Taleb, Max Caputo, James Nieuwenhuizen, Manuel Pucciarelli

Western United FC
Jamie Young, Léo Lacroix, Dylan Pierias, Tomoki Imai, Lachlan Wales, Dylan Wenzel-Halls, Steven Lustica, Connor Pain, Dalibor Markovic, Ivan Vujica, Rene Krhin, Ben Garuccio, Josh Risdon (vc), Sebastian Pasquali, Alessandro Diamanti (c), Ayom Majok, Luke Duzel, Nicolas Milanovic, Jerry Skotadis, Adisu Bayew, Christian Theoharous, Ajak Deu, Ryan Scott, Noah Botic, Rhys Bozinovski, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Neil Kilkenny, Aleksandar Prijović

Comments:

2021-12-04T20:12:16+00:00

Grem

Roar Rookie

Thanks - hard to imagine that front three not scoring a bagful soon. Although, Nabout scores some unbelievable goals, but isn't consistent. Leckie is a fast, powerful and energetic runner, who hasn't scored a lot of goals in his career. I thought Noone had been replaced, but maybe not. I think it's good for the A League to have a dominant team for the others to aim towards - perhaps Paddy will turn it around soon. City had a slow start last year, too.

2021-12-04T11:13:55+00:00

Stevo

Roar Rookie

WU's tactic of soaking up pressure and playing on the counter paid off. Aloisi had them setup pretty well and Paddy K had no answer. I don't think we're getting any where near the output from Leckie, JMac and Nabbout that we thought we would. Our attack was blunted by some good defending. Lacroix owned JMac on the night.

2021-12-04T10:57:07+00:00

Grem

Roar Rookie

Will watch this tomorrow. Sydney only have 2 points from 3 games, but I thought City would be blitzing it this year. What's going on?

2021-12-04T10:53:00+00:00

Stevo

Roar Rookie

I'm still wondering what Leckie is contributing to City. Seemed a passenger tonight. The Socceroo hardly had a presence on the pitch. Does he want to play or not???

2021-12-04T10:50:17+00:00

Stevo

Roar Rookie

Nice interview by Zappers with Lacroix. The big guy seems a genuine good bloke.

2021-12-04T10:42:18+00:00

Tigertown

Guest

WU... Impressive. Against the champions too.

2021-12-04T10:41:24+00:00

NoMates

Roar Rookie

Don’t follow both sides but enjoyed watching WU get the upset over City. Nothing negative from me tonight good game.