Preview: Melbourne Victory v Adelaide United 26.02.23

[sevengoals]

Melbourne Victory away, always a hard task.
5am Kick off Central European Time.

Captain Goodwin talks to the media.




Come on United

[EdDog]

Huge game.

They'll have a spring in their step after winning the Melbourne Derby.

We will be without Kitto, arguably our best of the season, and will be again thin in midfield.

I'd expect D'Arrigo to replace Cavallo and perhaps Madanha for Kitto, but I'd love to see either Warland or Popa dropped in favour of Ansell (if he's fit).

Tipping a 2-2 for this one.

[blahblah]

Huge game.

They'll have a spring in their step after winning the Melbourne Derby.

We will be without Kitto, arguably our best of the season, and will be again thin in midfield.

I'd expect D'Arrigo to replace Cavallo and perhaps Madanha for Kitto, but I'd love to see either Warland or Popa dropped in favour of Ansell (if he's fit).

Tipping a 2-2 for this one.

Hard to argue. This is often a "form-book-out-the-window" type of game.

Great to see Hiro has his shooting boots back on; that will give Victory some pause.

Should be a cracker.

[EdDog]

Adelaide United squad: 1.James DELIANOV (gk), 3.Ben WARLAND, 4.Nick ANSELL, 6.Louis D’ARRIGO, 8.ISAÍAS, 9.Hiroshi IBUSUKI, 10.Zach CLOUGH, 11.Craig GOODWIN (c), 13.Lachlan BARR, 18.Jay BARNETT, 21.Javi LÓPEZ, 23.Luke DUZEL, 26.Ben HALLORAN, 35.Luka JOVANOVIĆ, 41.Alexandar POPOVIĆ, 43.Giuseppe BOVALINA, 46.Joe GAUCI (gk), 47.Asad KASUMOVIĆ, 55.Ethan ALAGICH, 66.Nestory IRANKUNDA

Ins: 18.Jay BARNETT (promoted), 23.Luke DUZEL (promoted), 35.Luka JOVANOVIĆ (promoted), 43.Giuseppe BOVALINA (promoted)

Outs: 7.Ryan KITTO (suspended), 27.Josh CAVALLO (Achilles), 36.Panashe MADANHA (international duty)

Unavailable: 2.Harry VAN DER SAAG (knee), 14.George BLACKWOOD (knee), 28.JUANDE (leg), 31.BERNARDO (international duty), 37.Jonny YULL (International duty), 50.Steven HALL (knee)

[EdDog]

Forgot that Madanha is out.

Perhaps we might see us lineup with 3 centre backs.

Could Goody start back there, play Clough on the wing and bring Alagich into 10?

Injury / suspension issues every week for us.

Amazing how we are third given the challenges.

[Bptiger25]

Maybe 3 at the back 5 across the middle , clough in behind hiro

[mikeewanuk]

Good to have Barnett and his inside knowledge.
I’m confident that we’ll get the three points, last week’s win for MV was just a blip.

[otto62]

We’ve got goals in us. They’ll need to score at least two to beat us and after last week I think Carl will have us pumped to stop that happening.

I’m thinking it’ll be a 1-2 win.

[blahblah]

Amazing how we are third given the challenges.

A lot of quality in the youth stocks; gives our bench some zing.

[sevengoals]

Off to Melbourne.