The Melbourne Victory Post
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Both of them Medin Memeti's — 8.99
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.99, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match4 Jan 2027
Melbourne Victory up to position 3
18 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Denis Genreau is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Melbourne Victory will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market4 Jan 2027
Melbourne Victory turn down Western Sydney Wanderers for Matthew Grimaldi
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Daniel Graskoski at Melbourne Victory
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Graskoski is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Melbourne Victory
Keegan Jelacic and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Looking ahead4 Jan 2027
Top-of-the-table clash for Melbourne Victory
Western Sydney Wanderers next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Luka Smyth falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match2 Jan 2027
Melbourne Victory rescue it on 94 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. Macarthur FC had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Keegan Jelacic
- The dugout Louis D'Arrigo gets it from the manager
- Match Halfway: Melbourne Victory sit in position 3