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Melbourne Victory vs Melbourne City prediction
Melbourne Victory
Melbourne Victory is in the top 3 of the regular season, thanks to the latest results in the A-League, nevertheless, the Dyles wards must fight regularly to strengthen their positions. Fortunately, before the derby, only the young Inserra and Badolato will not play with City because of the Asian Youth Cup, where they are now.
The team is in decent shape, they just beat the closed Wellington Phoenix 1-0 and won for the third time in the last 4 matches of the championship. So Victory is fully equipped for the derby, which is considered a moderate favorite in it, but this is more because of the opponent's personnel situation.
Melbourne City
Melbourne City is approaching the derby with Victory as an underdog due to the personnel situation within the team. Fortunately, they managed to muffle the pain of defeats in the last matches in the last round of the A-League. At home, Vidmar's supporters put the squeeze on 1-0 on one of the outsiders of the Perth Glory championship, although they should have won more.
Nevertheless, the losing streak of 3 matches was interrupted, and the team was back in the playoff zone. Now the derby guests are in the 4th place in the table, a point behind Victory, although they have a game in reserve. However, the footage on the eve of the derby still worries the "townspeople". Nabbout, Kuhn, Cohen, Memeti (in the u-20 national team), Lopein, Nechowski and Trewin will not play with Victory.
Prediction
I think that after all, it's not the favorite to build on here, but the potentially grassroots match that suggests itself.
First of all, because the City will not be able to enchant because of the shots on the role and will try to jam the game, whereas Victory is already a more pragmatic and balanced team than the opponent.
It just so happened that due to injuries, City itself switched to a more accurate style of play and in the last 8 matches of the championship, they did not score more than 3 goals between them (Victory had 4 such matches).
Taking into account personal statistics, where only once in 5 matches the teams were able to break through TB 3, then the choice of the bottom in an extremely principled rivalry and taking into account the fact that the teams are fighting for high places and the status match is quite justified here.
