Melbourne Victory
3
Match Complete
Brisbane Roar FC
0
| 90' |  | J. Daley | ||
| 83' | | C. Brown | ||
| J. Brimmer | | 81' | ||
| L. Broxham | | 78' | ||
| G. T. Folami |  | 50' | ||
| N. D'Agostino | | 31' | ||
| K. Trewin | | 27' | ||
| 24' | | K. Trewin | ||
| J. Brillante | | 15' |
| 13 | Shots | 15 | ||
| 4 | On Target | 6 | ||
| 13 | Fouls | 13 | ||
| 3 | Corners | 5 | ||
| 1 | Offsides | 1 | ||
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 | ||
| 3 | Yellow Cards | 3 |
Melbourne Victory plays host to the Brisbane Roar in Sunday afternoon A-League action. Join The Roar for live scores from 4:05pm AEDT.
Under new manager Tony Popovic, the Victory have been the talk of the town all week. After Portuguese Roderick knocked in their first goal of the season against Western United and the three points were earned, Victory fans were ecstatic as to just how organised and better their team looked almost immediately. After the disaster of 2020/21, where the club finished last on the ladder, it was obvious right from the beginning that Popovic was exactly what they needed.
Another win for the Victory in this one would see its fans frothing at the mouth, yet it will have to earned against a Roar side that was robbed of a point against Melbourne City last week, when technical issues prevented VAR from intervening in what looked a legal goal. It is a common story for Warren Moon’s team and Nikola Mileusnic, Luke Ivanovic and Matti Steinmann look as though they could strike up a nice attacking combination as the season unfolds.
This looks like one of the most difficult matches to line up in Match Week 2, with Brisbane seething after their loss and the A-League Men’s community eager to see just how good Melbourne Victory can be this season.
Game information
Venue: AAMI Park
Kick-off: 4:05 pm (AEDT), Sunday 28th November 2021
Live stream: Paramount+
Betting: Melbourne Victory $2.34, Brisbane Roar FC $2.80 – odds via PlayUp
Teams
Melbourne Victory
Matt Acton, Jason Geria, Jason Davidson, Rai Marchán, Matthew Spiranovic, Leigh Broxham (c), Chris Ikonomidis, Joshua Brillante, Francesco Margiotta, Robbie Kruse, Ben Folami, Birkan Kirdar, Jay Barnett, Aaron Anderson, Stefan Nigro, Brendan Hamill, Nicholas D’Agostino, Ivan Kelava, Roderick, Jake Brimmer, Marco Rojas, Nishan Velupillay, Luis Lawrie-Lattanzio, Lleyton Brooks, Zaydan Bello, Gianluca Iannucci, Jerrad Tyson
Brisbane Roar FC
Macklin Freke, Scott Neville, Corey Brown, Anton Mlinaric, Tom Aldred (c), Rahmat Akbari, Matti Steinmann, Luke Ivanovic, Nikola Mileusnic, Jez Lofthouse, Jordan Holmes, Henry Hore, Jesse Daley, Josh Brindell-South, Jack Hingert, Nicholas Olsen, Alex Parsons, Juan Lescano, Aidan Munford, Jay O’Shea, Kai Trewin, Izaack Powell, Cyrus Dehmie
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Roar Rookie
I have only seen the highlights of this match, but there is a real sense of positivity in the MV camp this season. They are going to be hard to stop this year.
NUFCMVFC
Roar Guru
Good steady performance. Team looks nice and stable and two clean sheets are great. Good to see they controlled the game up to 60 minute mark. They absorbed some late pressure nicely enough. A sense though we are missing the potent HAL level striker we typically had, eg Barba and Nabbout being missing but some good potent midfielders in Rojas and Kruse
jbinnie
Guest
No mates - while watching this game I was reminded of a statement made to me recently by a mutual friend, a man who knows his football. His statement.----- "Roar are an NPL club, run by NPL thinkers, managed by an NPL manager/coach, using NPL players, to play in Australia's best league. I just couldn't get rid of those words out of my mind when watching this debacle. jb
Kevin
Roar Rookie
I was all along. I just forgot to post my predictions. :laughing:
Lionheart
Roar Rookie
Disappointing for Roar but Victory played well. Mind you, an own goal and a sitter missed could have changed things, but that's the game. Same day travel can't have helped, and you have to ask why? three times? the same old questions just keep coming back in this league but Roar won't offer any excuses. They weren't good enough, simple. And must do better. In all parts of the field.
Roberto Bettega
Roar Rookie
13,026 fans at AAMI today.
Jordan Sports Fan
Roar Rookie
Great Atmosphere for 13k. Would be good to see it with 20k in coming weeks.
Jordan Sports Fan
Roar Rookie
Same day travel two weeks in a row against the two best teams? Lets see next week after the home opener. Not to say Reds arent a big threat but lose that and then its time for concern. Till then hard to know.
NoMates
Roar Rookie
I'm not a Victory fan but its good to see them do well and get a half decent crowd. As for Roar i think because of there FFA Cup run they believed the hype about them self and its come crashing down on them.
Jordan Sports Fan
Roar Rookie
Yea but youll say that about 10 teams in the next 5 weeks. Vic deserved winners but Roar one win off a finals spot so no need to get carried away for now.
Roberto Bettega
Roar Rookie
Victory win. They still play that Scotland the Brave theme song.
Roberto Bettega
Roar Rookie
You called it NoMates. Your tipping reaching my heights in terms of quality.
NoMates
Roar Rookie
Brisbane Roar the new CCM.
90'
NoMates
Roar Rookie
certainly looks that way
Jordan Sports Fan
Roar Rookie
Right call imo
pete4
Roar Rookie
Early days however MV could be back this season
83'
pete4
Roar Rookie
Would have been very harsh thankfully common sense prevailed
NoMates
Roar Rookie
protecting his face not a hand ball