📏 Form Guide

Melbourne City

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Melbourne City, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 1-0 A-League triumph versus Brisbane Roar.

In that game, Melbourne City managed 67% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Melbourne City was Max Caputo (11'). At the other end, Brisbane Roar had 10 shots on goal with 1 of them on target.

Fewer than three goals per match were seen in 5 of the last 6 meetings where Melbourne City have been participants. In terms of the goal weighting in this period, opposing sides scored an aggregate of 6 and Melbourne City totted up 4. Nevertheless, we will just have to wait and see if that pattern shall be replicated in this next match.

Coming into this contest, Melbourne City are undefeated in their previous 2 league matches at home.

Newcastle United Jets

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Newcastle United Jets go into this meeting after a 1-3 A-League win with the eclipse of Auckland FC in their previous game.

In that game, Newcastle United Jets had 29% possession and 6 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Newcastle United Jets, the scorers were Lachlan Rose (7', 96') and Will Dobson (16'). On the other side, Auckland FC had 23 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Jesse Randall (13') was the scorer for Auckland FC.

Demonstrating their fondness for action-packed matches, the back of the net has been hit 23 times in the prior six matches in which Newcastle United Jets have taken to the field, yielding an average of 3.83 goals for each fixture. Opposing teams have hit 9 of those goals.

A look at their previous results shows us that Newcastle United Jets:

• have not been beaten by Melbourne City when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their previous 3 league matches away from home.

↔️ Head to head

Looking over their past head-to-head clashes stretching back to 02/04/2023 tells us that Melbourne City have won 3 of these and Newcastle United Jets 1, with the number of draws being 2.

7 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 5 from City and 2 belonging to The Jets. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.17.

The previous league encounter featuring the two was A-League match day 7 on 06/12/2025 when it ended Newcastle United Jets 0-1 Melbourne City.

That day, Newcastle United Jets had 56% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

Melbourne City had 14 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Kavian Rahmani (27') scored.

The match was refereed by Tim Danaskos.

📰 Team News: Melbourne City

In all likelihood, City look set to use a 4-3-1-2 formation for this game, beginning the first half with Patrick Beach, Nathaniel Atkinson, German Ferreyra, Samuel Souprayen, Aziz Behich, Emin Durakovic, Kai Trewin, Zane Schreiber, Andreas Kuen, Andrew Nabbout and Medin Memeti.

🗞️ Team News: Newcastle United Jets

There’s a good chance that The Jets could decide to utilise a 4-1-4-1 formation, starting James Delianov, Joel Bertolissio, Joe Shaughnessy, Mark Natta, Daniel Wilmering, Kostandinos Grozos, Clayton Taylor, Max Burgess, Will Dobson, Eli Adams and Lachlan Rose.

💡 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Newcastle United Jets are capable enough to find the net against this Melbourne City lineup, but that isn’t expected to prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We can see a 2-1 advantage for Melbourne City by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Should be a good one.

Andre Moura, 05:09 11/01/2026