The Melbourne Victory Post
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Keegan Jelacic
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Nothing got past Jordi Valadon
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 29 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match12 Dec 2026
6 matches without a win for Melbourne Victory
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Melbourne Victory are no longer polite ones.
Match12 Dec 2026
Still nobody has beaten Melbourne Victory
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Charles Nduka
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Nothing got past Louis D'Arrigo
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 16 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match12 Dec 2026
Melbourne Victory draw a blank against Central Coast Mariners
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Central Coast Mariners defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Nothing got past Franco Lino
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 11 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Samuel Silvera says his piece
“If we are going to be beaten, let it not be because somebody in here could not be bothered.” He stood up and said it in front of everybody, which is a thing a squad remembers about a man for years.
In brief
- Squad Emre Sağlam knocks on the manager's door
- Market Jack Mihailidis leaves for nothing
- Squad Oliver Dragićević is not doing himself any favours