📊 Form Guide

Melbourne Victory

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Melbourne Victory are hoping to win again after their last result, a 4-1 A-League success against Macarthur FC.

In that match, Melbourne Victory managed 50% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. For Melbourne Victory, goals were scored by Denis Genreau (25'), Sebastian Esposito (63') and Charles Nduka (66'). On the other side, Macarthur FC had 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Damien Da Silva (11' Own goal) and Luke Vickery (37') scored for Macarthur FC.

Melbourne Victory have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets recently, but they have also done enough to convert their own chances into goals. Over their last 6 matches, Melbourne Victory have seen their goal breached in 6 of them as well as scoring in 6 of those games. That kind of trend won’t necessarily be continued into this game, of course.

Coming into this fixture, Melbourne Victory have not been beaten in their last 4 league matches at home.

Central Coast Mariners

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Previously, Central Coast Mariners drew 1-1 in the A-League match with Adelaide United.

In that game, Central Coast Mariners had 47% possession and 5 shots at goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Central Coast Mariners was Sabit James Ngor (59'). At the other end, Adelaide United got 24 shots on goal with 9 on target. Ethan Alagich (88') was the scorer for Adelaide United.

Warren Moon's Central Coast Mariners have turned their attacks into goals a total of 10 times in the course of their most recent 6 matches. The overall goals that have been scored against them during those same clashes equals 5.

Coming into this contest, Central Coast Mariners have not been beaten in their last 3 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings stretching back to 13/01/2024 shows that Melbourne Victory have won 1 of them and Central Coast Mariners 3, with the tally of drawn games standing at 2.

A sum of 11 goals were scored between them during those clashes, with 5 of them for Victory and 6 being from Mariners. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

The previous league meeting between these sides was A-League match day 15 on 01/02/2026 which finished with the scoreline of Central Coast Mariners 1-0 Melbourne Victory.

In that match, Central Coast Mariners had 33% possession and 7 shots on goal with 1 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Ali Auglah (35').

On the other side, Melbourne Victory got 27 attempts on goal with 9 on target.

The match was refereed by Tim Danaskos.

📋 Team News: Melbourne Victory

In all likelihood, Victory will probably use a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game and select Jack Warshawsky, Joshua Rawlins, Sebastian Esposito, Roderick Miranda, Franco Lino, Jordi Valadon, Denis Genreau, Nishan Velupillay, Juan Mata, Clarismario Rodrigus and Charles Nduka.

🗞️ Team News: Central Coast Mariners

We’re of the thinking that Mariners appear most likely to play in a 4-1-4-1 formation, going with Andrew Redmayne, Storm Roux, James Donachie, Brad Tapp, Lucas Mauragis, Chris Donnell, Ali Auglah, Haine Eames, Alfie McCalmont, Sabit James Ngor and Nathanael Blair.

🔮 Prediction

It looks to us that Melbourne Victory can and should be able to create a decent number of chances and shots on target.

In contrast, Central Coast Mariners won’t find it easy to score a goal of their own but we do fancy them pulling one back during this clash.

We’re therefore expecting to see a controlled 3-1 winning margin for Melbourne Victory come full-time.

Victor Martins, 06:05 21/03/2026