Preview: Melbourne Vs Central Coast

Date: Thursday August 6
Kick-off: 8:00pm AEST
Venue: Etihad Stadium, Melbourne

In about 2 hours Melbourne will kick-off the new season at home to Central Coast. I don’t really know what to say as this is the first match of the season and neither team has any injury concerns, but i do expect Melbourne will play well and should the win. In CCM last friendly against Wellington they played very poorly and struggled to create chances, where as Melbourne put in a good performance and won against Adelaide.

Here’s some stats

Head-to-head
12 A-League meetings: Melbourne Victory – 6 wins, Central Coast – 3 wins, Draws – 3

Previous meeting
Melbourne Victory 3, Central Coast Mariners 0, Etihad Stadium, Round 20, January 2009

Pre-Season matches:
Melbourne
June 27: Wellington Phoenix 1 Melbourne victory 1
July 11: Melbourne Victory 0, Fulham 3
July 26: Melbourne Victory 2, Adelaide United 1

Central Coast:
June 7: North Queensland Fury 0 Central Coast 1
July 6: Sydney FC 0, Central Coast Mariners 0
July 18: Gold Coast 2, Central Coast 2
July 25: Central Coast 0, Wellington Phoenix 0

Squads:

Melbourne Victory: 1.Mitch LANGERAK (gk), 2.Kevin MUSCAT (c), 6.Leigh BROXHAM, 7.Matthew KEMP, 8.Grant BREBNER, 9.Danny ALLSOPP, 10.Archie THOMPSON, 11.NEY FABIANO, 12.Rodrigo VARGAS, 14.Billy CELESKI, 15.Tom PONDELJAK, 16.Carlos HERNANDEZ, 19.Evan BERGER, 20.Glenn MOSS (gk), 22.Nick WARD
Unavailable: Nathan Elasi (International duties)

Central Coast Mariners: 1.Andrew REDMAYNE (gk), 4. Pedj BOJIC, 5. Brad PORTER, 7. John HUTCHINSON, 8. Dean HEFFERNAN, 11. Dylan MACALLISTER, 14. Michael McGLINCHEY, 16. Nigel BOOGAARD, 17. Chris DOIG, 18. Alex WILKINSON (c), 19. Matt SIMON, 20. Danny VUKOVIC (gk), 21. Ahmad ELRICH, 22. Nicky TRAVIS, 23. Adam KWASNIK.
Unavailable: nil

Prediction
Melbourne 3-0

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Category: Melbourne Victory Team News

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