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

6th April, 2019
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Sydney FC

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Sydney FC

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Melbourne Victory

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M. Ninkovic93'
A. Calver75'
41'G. Niedermeier
16'K. Barbarouses
B. O'Neill6'

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Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory face off in the Big Blue at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Round 24 A-League action. Join The Roar for live scores and commentary from 7:50pm (AEDT).

Each and every time this fixture rolls around, the excitement is palpable in whichever City hosts the latest instalment.

This time around it is the Sydney Cricket Ground that will provide the atmosphere for what is probably the most anticipated domestic rivalry in Australian football.

Both Sydney and Victory have the chance to run down the high flying Perth Glory with a series of wins in their final four matches and a few stumbles from the westerners.

The winner of tonight’s match will have that chance, the loser will shift their thinking towards the pending semi-final series.

Whilst the claiming of the Premier’s Plate is a wonderful achievement, both will also have eyes on the grander prize of an A-League Championship in May; with bragging rights from this match definitely valuable when it comes to a looming knock out clash in around 6 weeks time.

After a shock loss to the Jets three weeks back, the Victory are back on the rails after a 2-1 win against the Roar and a stunning 2-0 triumph over Perth just seven days ago. Sydney have been typically consistent, with just the surprising 2-0 loss to Melbourne City blotting their copybook in recent times.

Both teams are at near full strength with Jop van der Linden coming back into the Sky Blues extended squad and Kenny Athiu doing the same for the home side.

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The front line of both sides is impressive. Keisuke Honda and Ola Toivonen will once again pull the strings for Victory and Adam le Fondre and Siem de Jong provide the class up front for the home side.

With much attention given to the quality of the surface, let’s hope it holds together well and allows the Big Blue to live up to its growing reputation as a centrepiece in the A-League calendar.

Prediction
For me it is the Victory tonight. When they are in full flight, the ease with which they find avenues to goal is ominous. Sydney tend to grind away for results, as they did last weekend against the Roar.

The men from south of the border will have a little too much firepower in the front third and should be able to pose some rather difficult questions to the Sydney FC defence.

Catch all the action on The Roar, live coverage from 7:50pm (AEDT).

Where: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
When: Saturday 6th April 2019, 7:50pm (AEDT)
TV: Fox Sports, 10BOLD, MyFootball app
Betting: Sydney FC $2.00, Draw $3.75, Melbourne Victory $3.40

Sydney FC
1.Andrew Redmayne (Gk), 2.Aaron Calver, 4.Alex Wilkinson, 5.Jop Van Der Linden, 6.Josh Brillante, 7.Michael Zullo, 8.Paulo Retre, 9.Adam Le Fondre, 10.Milos Ninkovic, 11.Danny De Silva, 13.Brandon O’Neill, 14.Alex Brosque, 16.Reza Ghoochannejhad, 17.Anthony Caceres, 20.Alex Cisak (Gk), 22.Siem De Jong, 23.Rhyan Grant, 31.Luke Ivanovic

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Melbourne Victory
1.Matthew Acton (Gk), 2.Storm Roux, 3.Corey Brown, 4.Keisuke Honda, 5.Georg Niedermeier, 6.Leigh Broxham, 7. Kenny Athiu, 8. Terry Antonis, 9.Kosta Barbarouses, 10.James Troisi, 11.Ola Toivonen, 14. Thomas Deng, 16.Josh Hope, 17. James Donachie, 20.Lawrence Thomas (Gk), 21.Carl Valeri, 24. Elvis Kamsoba, 25.Anthony Lesiotis

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