📏 Form Guide

Melbourne City

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Melbourne City prepare for this game following on from a 0-0 AFC Champions League Elite drawn result vs Gangwon FC.

Melbourne City have not been the best at stopping their opponents lately, but they’ve also found ways to hit the back of the net themselves. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Melbourne City have conceded in 6 of them while also managing to get on the scoresheet in 5 of those matches.

Melbourne Victory

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In their previous fixture, Melbourne Victory drew 1-1 in the A-League match with Brisbane Roar.

In that match, Melbourne Victory had 63% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Melbourne Victory was Charles Nduka (13'). Brisbane Roar had 9 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Nick D'Agostino (76') scored for Brisbane Roar.

The stats tell the story, and Melbourne Victory have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 7 goals in total. At the back, Melbourne Victory have been far from perfect. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be continued here, of course.

Going into this encounter, Melbourne Victory haven't been defeated by Melbourne City when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 matches in the league. A very good record, indeed.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels dating back to 26/10/2024, both clubs have shared the honours with Melbourne City winning 2 of those games, Melbourne Victory 2 and 2 being draws in regulation time.

A combined total of 14 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 of them from City and 7 coming from Victory. That is an average goals per game value of 2.33.

The last league match between these clubs was A-League match day 9 on 20/12/2025 which ended up with the score at Melbourne City 0-1 Melbourne Victory.

In that match, Melbourne City managed 59% possession and 12 shots on goal with 4 of them on target.

At the other end, Melbourne Victory got 14 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Matthew Grimaldi (91') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Alireza Faghani.

🧠 Prediction

Our assessment is that Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City may well end up cancelling each other out here.

A draw looks like a realistic possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We therefore see a tight encounter with a score draw at the end of this game.

Victor Martins, 08:12 21/02/2026