Gameday in Geelong for the first round between Western United & Victory.

Western United will be full line up for this game.

The Victory will be without Matt Acton injured.

Both teams were at the bottom of the table last season but especially Melbourne Victory who finished at the last position with awful stats with 60 goals conceded.

A lot of things changed for this season, first they changed their coach, they are coached by Anthony Popovic now, he was in Greece last season but before that he got already experience in Australia with Sydney, Wanderers & Perth so he has a good knowledge about the league.

About the players, they had a lot of players who left : Nick Ansell, Max Crocombe, Storm Roux, Adama Traore, Ryan Shotton, Dylan Ryan, So Nishikawa, Rudy Gestede, Callum McManaman, Jacob Butterfield, Elvis Kamsoba, Matthew Bozinovski

They made also a lot of additions : Ben Folami, Jason Geria, Josh Brillante, Jason Davidson, Stefan Nigro, Matthew Spiranovic, Chris Ikonomidis, Brendan Hamill, Rai Marchan, Ivan Kelava, Nick D'Agostino, Roderick Miranda, Francesco Margiotta, Jerrad Tyson

They extented the contract of : Lleyton Brooks, Birkan Kirdar, Leigh Broxham, Aaron Anderson, Robbie Kruse

For me clearly this season, Melbourne can be a top team again with those additions, it might be difficult at the early but I'm confident that the team already prepared very well tactics and having a good chemistry.

Playing on the road in Australia is always difficult but Western United is one of the weakest team to travel to even if last year they were top 5 teams at home.

I expect 1-1.

西部联队和墨尔本胜利之间的首轮比赛在吉朗举行。

西部联队将全主力阵容出战本场比赛。

胜利将缺少受伤的马特·阿克顿。

上赛季两支球队都处于积分榜的垫底，尤其是墨尔本胜利队，他们以糟糕的统计数据排名最后，丢了 60 个球。

本赛季很多事情发生了变化，首先他们更换了教练，现在由安东尼波波维奇执教，他上赛季在希腊，但在此之前他已经在澳大利亚悉尼，流浪者和珀斯获得了经验，因此他有很好的关于联赛的知识储备。

关于球员，他们有很多球员离开了：尼克·安塞尔、马克斯·克罗科姆、斯托姆·鲁克斯、阿达玛·特拉奥雷、瑞恩·肖顿、迪伦·瑞安、西川素、鲁迪·格斯特德、卡勒姆·麦克马纳曼、雅各布·巴特菲尔德、埃尔维斯·卡姆索巴、马修·博齐诺夫斯基

他们也做了很多补充：Ben Folami、Jason Geria、Josh Brillante、Jason Davidson、Stefan Nigro、Matthew Spiranovic、Chris Ikonomidis、布兰登·哈米尔、莱·马尔尚、伊万·凯拉瓦、尼克·达戈斯蒂诺、罗德里克·米兰达、弗朗切斯科·玛吉奥塔、杰拉德·泰森。

他们延长了以下球员的合同：莱顿·布鲁克斯、伯肯·科达、利·布罗克瑟姆、亚伦·安德森、罗比·克鲁斯 对我来说，本赛季很明显，有了这些补充，墨尔本可以再次成为一支顶级球队，在早期可能会很困难，但我相信球队已经准备好了很好的战术和良好的化学反应。

在澳大利亚的客场比赛总是很困难，但西部联队是最弱的球队之一，即使他们去年是主场前五名。

预测墨尔本胜利不败。比分参考1-1.