Australia - A-LeagueStarWelcome to the Turboscores match preview of the upcoming match between Melbourne City and Central Coast Mariners, taking place on Sunday, 17 December 2023, at AAMI Park in Melbourne.
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Melbourne City, Recent FormMelbourne City will certainly have been pleased to secure 3 points from their most recent encounter, which saw them run out 2-1 winners in their away fixture against Perth Glory. They came away from that fixture with 52% of the possession and clocked up 18 attempts on goal with 10 on target. By comparison, Perth Glory managed 15 attempts on goal, with 5 on target.
Manager Aurelio Vidmar will be reasonably pleased with his team's attacking displays in recent matches, having managed to score 9 goals in their last 6 games, but he will have work to do defensively after they conceded 11 goals in those games and dropped some valuable points along the way. Their goal scoring streak at home now stands at 27 games in a row, but they have only kept 1 clean sheet in their last 6 games at AAMI Park.
They have been on a decent run of form lately at AAMI Park, going undefeated in 5 of their previous 6 games there and notching up 4 wins along the way.
With 6 league goals in 6 games at home in AAMI Park, Jamie Maclaren will be feeling confident about hitting the net again in this home encounter.
Central Coast Mariners, Recent FormIn their last league encounter, Central Coast Mariners racked up a stunning 4-0 home win against Western United. In that game they recorded 43 % of the possession, with 23 attempts on goal, 8 on target. Their opponents found the target on 1 of their 11 shots on goal.
While they have been reasonably effective at circumventing their opponents defence, scoring 11 in their last 6 games, it's largely been tit for tat with their own defence proving to be equally ineffectual, conceding 9, and leading to valuable points being dropped. They have scored in 5 of their last 6 games, but they've failed to keep a clean sheet in 5 of their last 6 games on the road.
Having lost 3 of their last 6 matches and recorded only 2 victories, this has to be seen as a poor run of results.
Marco Túlio will be hoping to create problems for Melbourne City in this one, having scored 3 goals in his last 6 outings on the road for Central Coast Mariners.
In the most recent meeting between these teams, they both managed to find the net, but the game finished in a 1-1 draw.
MCFC will be feeling confident about extending their scoring record against Mariners, having notched up at least 1 goal in the previous 21 meetings between the two.
CC Mariners will be desperate to get some points from this game, having lost the last 11 times they've visited MCFC in the league and also not managed a win against them at AAMI Park in any of their last 12 league games.
MCFC player Jamie Maclaren will be looking to get on the scoresheet again against CC Mariners, having scored 4 goals in the last 5 league meetings between the teams.
With no real injury worries, MCFC manager Aurelio Vidmar will be happy to have his full squad available for selection.
CC Mariners manager Mark Jackson has no real injury worries ahead of this clash.
Melbourne City Playing at home | Central Coast Mariners Playing away from home | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Goals scored | 0 |
| 1.7 | Goals conceded | 2.5 |
| 55' | Time first goal scored | - |
| 61' | Time first goal conceded | 45' |
| 2 | Yellow cards | 3 |
| 0 | Red cards | 1 |
| 3.7 | Subs used | 4.5 |
| 2-0 | Biggest victory | - |
| 2-1 | Biggest defeat | 3-0 |
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