Melbourne Victory
1
COMPLETE
Melbourne City
1
The second of the A-League elimination finals takes place in the Sunday twilight, with a Melbourne Derby to savour and a spot in the final four on offer for Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City. Join The Roar for live scores and commentary from 5pm (AEST).
Prediction
Despite City’s credentials and consistency in recent times, their ability to win on the big day has been lacking. This year it will happen a little earlier than normal and the Victory will advance to the final four with a comfortable win.
Melbourne Victory 2 Melbourne City 0
Game information
Venue: AAMI Park, Melbourne
Kick-off: 5pm (AEST)
TV: 10Bold
Streaming: Paramount+, 10Play
Betting: Melbourne Victory $2.40, draw $3.65, Melbourne City $2.65 – odds via PlayUp
Squads
Melbourne Victory
2.Jason GERIA, 3.Adama TRAORE, 5.Damien DA SILVA, 6.Leigh BROXHAM, 7.Chris IKONOMIDIS, 8.Zinedine MACHACH, 10.Bruno FORNAROLI, 11.Ben FOLAMI, 14.Connor CHAPMAN, 17.Nishan VELUPILLAY, 19.Daniel ARZANI, 20.Paul IZZO, 21.Roderick MIRANDA, 22.Jake BRIMMER, 23.Salim KHELIFI, 25.Ryan TEAGUE, 27.Jordi VALADON, 28.Roly BONEVACIA, 30.Ahmad TALEB , 37.Kasey BOS
Melbourne City
1. Jamie YOUNG, 4. Nuno REIS, 6. Steven UGARKOVIC, 7. Mathew LECKIE, 8. James JEGGO, 9. Jamie MACLAREN, 10. Tolgay ARSLAN, 11. Leo NATEL, 14. Vicente FERNÁNDEZ, 17. Terry ANTONIS, 21. Alessandro LOPANE, 22. Curtis GOOD, 25. Callum TALBOT, 26. Samuel SOUPRAYEN, 33. Patrick BEACH (GK), 35. Zane SCHREIBER, 37. Max CAPUTO, 44. Marin JAKOLIS
Marcel
Roar Rookie
How exactly is it unfair?...they won't be playing any more games than the other teams remaining
Lionheart
Roar Rookie
No stand, lots of fields, grass and astro turf, think it's Norwich FC junior academy home.
Stuart Thomas
Expert
City blew it. Should have been three up early. Gave them a sniff and the club with a bit of character used it well. Year after year City look flaky on the big days.
Garry
Roar Rookie
had to google looks like Tarneit ! :stoked:
Grem
Roar Rookie
Lucky it’s not happening to Adelaide! Can you have east coast bias when both teams are from the east coast?
Lionheart
Roar Rookie
Thanks Stuart, missed much of extra time ans pens,but you saved me. What a great game.Now for the big one, here at The Nest, Norwich (sort of facility all purclubs should have).
Garry
Roar Rookie
"Confirmed: Friday 7:45pm - SFC v CCM @ Allianz. Sunday 4pm - MVC v Nix at AAMI." posted but I dont believe it..CCM wouldve had to travel from Oman
Harry Brill
Roar Rookie
It's a big advantage for both CCM and Nix to play the second leg at home. It's the same arrangement in Europe.
Garry
Roar Rookie
The second is extra time if required I believe..so BIG advantage “Highest placed team may nominate preference to Host Leg 1 or 2 Away Goals Rule does not apply for Semi Finals”
Stevo
Roar Rookie
Well you could have but you’d have been on more than just ginger beer :laughing:
Stevo
Roar Rookie
It was City v Izzo from the opening half and geez, what a game the man between the sticks had. You couldn’t have written the script for tonight’s game :shocked:
NoMates
Roar Rookie
Its really unfair that Wellington must play two matches to get in the finals and there first one is away to Victory how does that work? Should have been kept as a single game eliminator being played in Wellington.
mrl
Roar Rookie
As a family of goalkeepers, we were all mesmerised!
Knocka
Roar Rookie
One of the greatest goalkeeping performances I’ve seen, not just the penalty saves, but throughout the game, and I’ve been watching football for over 60 years. Congratulations Paul Izzo.
Stevo
Roar Rookie
The Melbourne Derby has always been King/Queen!
Garry
Roar Rookie
maybe but not as much fun!!
Grem
Roar Rookie
Did more than keep in it - they won - that was a great game to watch and I don’t follow either team. The beautiful game!
Stevo
Roar Rookie
Cheers! A stiff Scotch coming up :stoked:
Stevo
Roar Rookie
I’m practicing mindfulness tonight. Ommmmmmm, repeat ….
Grem
Roar Rookie
Hip, hip