Melbourne City vs Brisbane Roar Preview: Team News & Prediction
by Alex Lawes ·
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Melbourne City are in good form as they head towards the end of the A League regular season with a clash against struggling Brisbane Roar in Victoria this weekend.
Kick-off date/time: Friday 11th April, 2025: UK – 11:35am / US ET – 6:35am / US PT – 3:35am
How to watch on TV/online: UK – YouTube / US – ESPN / Australia – Paramount+
Melbourne City Team News: Experienced absentees
Melbourne City are dealing with a few experienced former Australia internationals being out absent for this weekend such as James Jeggo, Mathew Leckie and Andrew Nabbout whilst fringe goalkeeper James Nieuwenhuizen is sidelined alongside fringe defender Jordan Necovski.
Predicted XI (4-2-3-1): Beach; Atkinson, Ferreyra, Souprayen, Behich; Trewin, Lopane; Tilio, Kuen, Memeti; Caputo
Unavailable: Nieuwenhuizen (Injured), Necovski (Injured), Jeggo (Injured), Leckie (Injured), Nabbout (Injured)
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Brisbane Roar Team News: Couple of injuries
Ahead of their trip across to Melbourne this weekend, the Brisbane Roar are dealing with a couple of defensive injury absentees for this one such as centre-back Ben Warland and full-back Corey Brown.
Predicted XI (4-4-2): Acton; Zabala, Herrington, Bility, Gilroy; Jelacic, Klein, O’Shea, Florin Berenguer; Abubakar, Amanatidis
Unavailable: Warland (Injured), Brown (Injured)
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Melbourne City vs Brisbane Roar Prediction
Melbourne City come into this one on the back of a 1-0 defeat of the Central Coast Mariners in their most recent outing at the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium last weekend. The home team have now managed to suffer just one defeat in their last six matches as they begin this weekend’s round of fixtures sitting tucked inside the top three of the A League. They now face a Brisbane Roar side that have managed to win just two of their 21 matches so far this season as the Queenslanders come into this one on the back of a 5-1 demolition at the hands of Macarthur last week. Melbourne City are firm favourites for this one, especially with their home advantage.
Melbourne City vs Brisbane Roar Tip: Melbourne City to win
