In my opinion Melbourne City is clear favorite of today's match up and should be able to make comfortable win.

Melbourne have huge mental advantage before this game as they won last 8 consecutive matches at home against Brisbane!

According to the expected goals conceded/scored models, Melbourne City is better team than Brisbane at both ends of the pitch. That should be visible today.

Currently Melbourne have crazy streak of 3 draws in a row at home. It's time to make 3 points. In overall hosts have really high winning ratio at home. They won 28 of last 44 league matches front of home crowd.

Brisbane coming for this game in very bad mood, in last round they lost 0:3 at home against Central Coast and looked really poor. In that game they played without 3 important defensive players: Neville, Brown and Burke- Gilroy and 2 offensive stars: Hore & Berenguer. Probably we will not see them also today. It's big blow and should have very bad impact on guests performance.

Brisbane preparation for this game is under huge question mark because their first coach Aloisi left the club. That was unexpected situation. He decided to move to China. For sure that not helped team to be 100% ready for this game.

Melbourne is smart choice here.

在我看来，墨尔本城在今天的比赛中显然是最受欢迎的，应该能够轻松取胜。

墨尔本在这场比赛之前有巨大的心理优势，因为他们在主场赢了布里斯班的8连胜!

根据预期失球/进球模型，墨尔本城在球场两端都比布里斯班好。这应该在今天就能看到。

目前墨尔本在主场取得了疯狂的3连胜。是时候提出三点了。总的来说，东道主在主场的胜率很高。在过去的44场联赛中，他们在主场赢了28场。

布里斯班带着非常糟糕的心情来参加这场比赛，上一轮他们在主场0:3输给了中央海岸，看起来真的很糟糕。在那场比赛中，他们缺少了3名重要的防守球员:内维尔、布朗和伯克-吉尔罗伊，以及2名进攻明星:霍尔和贝伦格尔。也许我们今天也不会看到它们。这是一个很大的打击，应该会对客人的表现产生非常坏的影响。

布里斯班对这场比赛的准备工作打上了巨大的问号，因为他们的第一任教练阿洛伊西离开了俱乐部。这是一个出乎意料的情况。他决定搬到中国去。当然，这并没有帮助球队为这场比赛做好100%的准备。

墨尔本是明智的选择。