📊 Form Guide

Melbourne City

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Melbourne City, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 3-0 A-League victory versus Western Sydney Wanderers.

In that game, Melbourne City managed 48% possession and 15 shots at goal with 8 on target. For Melbourne City, goals were scored by Andreas Kuen (23'), Marcus Younis (33') and Elbasan Rashani (49'). On the other side, Western Sydney Wanderers had 17 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

Melbourne City have really struggled up front of late. Their goals record stands at just 4 against opponents during their previous 6 matches. In those games, Melbourne City have also seen the tally of goals against them come to 8. However, we’ll just have to find out if that pattern will be sustained in this match.

Coming into this meeting, Melbourne City have not been beaten in the league by Central Coast Mariners in their previous 3 matches.

Central Coast Mariners

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Previously, Central Coast Mariners drew 2-2 in the A-League match with Perth Glory.

In that game, Central Coast Mariners had 52% possession and 20 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. For Central Coast Mariners, the goals were scored by Ali Auglah (37') and Bailey Brandtman (66'). Perth Glory got 18 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Sebastian Despotovski (14') and Adam Taggart (17') scored for Perth Glory.

Indicating their fondness for high-scoring matches, goals have been seen as many as 20 times in the previous six games in which Central Coast Mariners have played, making it a mean average of 3.33 goals each fixture. Their opponents have hit 10 of this grand total.

Pre-game facts show that Central Coast Mariners:

• haven't beaten Melbourne City when they've played them away from home in the last 14 league games. Imagine their relief when they finally get an away win.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head meetings dating back to 17/12/2023 tells us that Melbourne City have won 1 of them & Central Coast Mariners 2, with the number of drawn results being 3.

A sum of 15 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 7 of them from City and 8 being from Mariners. That’s an average goals per game of 2.5.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was A-League match day 6 on 29/11/2025 and the score finished Central Coast Mariners 0-0 Melbourne City.

In that match, Central Coast Mariners had 42% possession and 3 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target.

For their opponents, Melbourne City got 14 attempts on goal with 4 on target.

The referee was Eric Saba.

📰 Team News: Melbourne City

Patrick Beach (Muscle injury), Mathew Leckie (Hip injury), Takeshi Kanamori (Collateral ligament injury) and Alessandro Lopane (Muscle injury) won’t be able to feature for Melbourne City boss Aurelio Vidmar. Marcus Younis cannot play in this game through suspension.

✨ Prediction

We’re of the view that Melbourne City can create the chances to score more than once when they play Central Coast Mariners, who could well struggle finding the net themselves.

We’re tipping a 2-0 victory for Melbourne City by the time that the referee blows the final whistle.

Lucas Pereira, 18:09 05/04/2026