Brisbane Roar vs Melbourne City Predictions

• Each of Melbourne City’s seven victories during 2022 also produced over 2.5 goals.
• Eight of Brisbane Roar’s last nine games produced over 2.5 total goals.
• Melbourne scored 2+ goals in each of their last four away league games.

Brisbane’s Roar is worse than their bite

Back-to-back victories ahead of this clash have helped lift Brisbane roar from the foot of the table, though this is still a woeful start to the campaign for last season’s fourth placed side.

Brisbane actually beat Melbourne City 3-0 in this clash last year despite the visitors ending up as A-League champions, suggesting they do have something in the locker.

Encouragingly for Brisbane, they are unbeaten in five of their six home league games this season (W4, D1, L1) and that return accounts for 76% of their points haul. However, manager Warren Moon has lost three of his four personal meetings with City, suggesting this will be no walk on the beach.

The champions are looking solid

While Melbourne have played out three stalemates across their last four matches, their league encounters are still providing great entertainment to the neutral, with each of the last seven seeing both teams score, over 2.5 goals, or both simultaneously.

With 30 goals scored across City’s opening eight away league games, they are averaging an unsurprising league high of 3.8 total goals per-game, which is partly why we think that the price around over 2.5 goals in this game looks like great value.

For smaller stakes, we predict that Melbourne can put an end to Brisbane’s positive home form with an exciting, yet narrow 2-1 victory as they seek to continue their imperious unbeaten run.

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