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Melbourne V. 4-0 Gold Coast - November 28, 2009 / A-League 2009/2010

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A-League 2009/2010 - Round 16

Olympic Park Stadium - Melbourne - Australia

November 28, 2009

20 537

Melbourne V.

4 - 0

Gold Coast

Robbie Kruse

28'

Nick Ward

45'

Archie Thompson

54'

Archie Thompson

68'

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26' - Substitution Steve Fitzsimmonsis substituted by James Brown

28' - Goal Robbie Kruse28

42' - Substitution Grant Brebneris substituted by Leigh Broxham42

45' - Goal Nick Ward45

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49' - Substitution Joel Porteris substituted by Gol-Gol Mebrahtu

54' - Goal Archie Thompson54

68' - Goal Archie Thompson68

69' - Substitution Matthew Kempis substituted by Sutee Suksomkit69

70' - Substitution Steven Lusticais substituted by Zac Anderson

74' - Substitution Evan Bergeris substituted by Mate Dugandzic74

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Melbourne V.

4 - 0

Gold Coast

Melbourne V. Gold Coast

Team line-ups

Melbourne V.

1 Langerak

Mitchell Langerak

Australia

B.date22/08/1988

Age21 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

12 Vargas

Rodrigo Vargas

Australia

B.date20/10/1978

Age31 years

H1m81

positionCentral defender

2 Muscat

Kevin Muscat

Australia

B.date07/08/1973

Age36 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

23 Leijer

Adrian Leijer

Australia

B.date25/03/1986

Age23 years

H1m86

positionDefender

7 Kemp69

Matthew Kemp

Australia

B.date08/08/1980

Age29 years

H1m75

positionLeft full-back

8 Brebner42

Grant Brebner

Scotland

B.date06/12/1977

Age31 years

H1m81

positionCentre Midfield

19 Berger74

Evan Berger

Australia

B.date16/08/1987

Age22 years

H1m69

positionLeft Midfielder

22 Ward45

Nick Ward

Australia

B.date24/03/1985

Age24 years

H1m83

positionPlaymaker

16 Hernandez

Carlos Hernandez

Costa Rica

B.date09/04/1982

Age27 years

H1m70

positionOffensive Midfielder

21 Kruse28

Robbie Kruse

Australia

B.date05/10/1988

Age21 years

H1m79

positionVersatile Forward

10 Thompson5468

Archie Thompson

Australia

B.date23/10/1978

Age31 years

H1m74

positionStriker

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Mitchell Langerak		21	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	D	Rodrigo Vargas		31	88	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Kevin Muscat		36	95	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Adrian Leijer		23	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	D	Matthew Kemp	69	29	63	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Grant Brebner	42	31	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Evan Berger	74	22	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	M	Nick Ward	45	24	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	M	Carlos Hernandez		27	58	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	F	Robbie Kruse	28	21	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Archie Thompson	5468	31	95	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Gold Coast

20 Higgins

Scott Higgins

Australia

B.date09/06/1976

Age33 years

H2m101

positionGoalkeeper

3 Thwaite

Michael Thwaite

Australia

B.date02/05/1983

Age26 years

H1m90

positionRight central defender

31 Wearing

Ben Wearing

Australia

B.date08/05/1989

Age20 years

H1m90

positionCentral defender

24 Anderson Alves

Anderson Alves

Brazil

B.date10/01/1983

Age26 years

H1m70

positionLeft full-back

14 Porter49

Joel Porter

Australia

B.date25/12/1978

Age30 years

H1m76

positionCentre Midfield

25 Lustica70

Steven Lustica

Australia

B.date12/04/1991

Age18 years

H1m74

positionCentre Midfield

23 Fitzsimmons26

Steve Fitzsimmons

Australia

B.date07/09/1976

Age33 years

H1m84

positionMidfield

7 Caravella

Zenon Caravella

Australia

B.date17/03/1983

Age26 years

H1m70

positionMidfield

17 Osman

Matthew Osman

Australia

B.date29/07/1983

Age26 years

H1m83

positionRight Midfielder

10 Culina

Jason Culina

Australia

B.date05/08/1980

Age29 years

H1m76

positionLeft central midfielder

9 Smeltz

Shane Smeltz

New Zealand

B.date29/09/1981

Age28 years

H1m85

positionCentre forward

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
20	G	Scott Higgins		33	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Michael Thwaite		26	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
31	D	Ben Wearing		20	1	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	D	Anderson Alves		26	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Joel Porter	49	30	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	M	Steven Lustica	70	18	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	M	Steve Fitzsimmons	26	33	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Zenon Caravella		26	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Matthew Osman		26	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Jason Culina		29	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Shane Smeltz		28	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.8 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
6	M	Leigh Broxham	42	21	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	M	Mate Dugandzic	74	20	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	F	Sutee Suksomkit	69	31	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
29	D	Zac Anderson	70	18	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	James Brown	26	19	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	F	Gol-Gol Mebrahtu	49	19	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Ben Wearing

Bas van den Brink

OUT

Steven Lustica

Kristian Rees

OUT

Matthew Osman

Zac Anderson

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Ernie Merrick

112

Success rate in this team:

49 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

38 %

Merrick vs Gold Coast

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on November 28, 2009

Merrick vs Bleiberg

4 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on November 28, 2009

Manager

Age

Match num

Miron Bleiberg

Success rate in this team:

44 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

29 %

Bleiberg vs Melbourne V.

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on November 28, 2009

Bleiberg vs Merrick

1 victory

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on November 28, 2009

Referee

Benjamin Williams

24 victories	3 draws	10 losses	Melbourne V.37 matches	General total	Gold Coast9 matches	3 victories	2 draws	4 losses
5 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Melbourne V.5 matches	Season total	Gold Coast6 matches	3 victories	0 draw	3 losses
Latest figure on April 02, 2016					Latest figure on December 11, 2011

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Key figures

It's the first time Robbie Kruse scores 1 goal in his professional career with Melbourne Victory

It's the first time Robbie Kruse scores a goal in A-League since the 30/12/2007 (with Brisbane Roar vs Perth Glory )

Melbourne V. keeps its 10 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 18/09/2009). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 28/09/2008-06/08/2009 time period (20 matches).

Read the next 8 key stats

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DMelbourne Victory 1-1 Newcastle Jets03/09/2009

DMelbourne Victory 1-1 Wellington Phoenix13/09/2009

VMelbourne Victory 2-1 Brisbane Roar03/10/2009

LMelbourne Victory 0-3 Sydney FC09/10/2009

VMelbourne Victory 3-1 Adelaide United24/10/2009

LMelbourne Victory 0-4 Central Coast Mariners07/11/2009

Overall

LMelbourne Victory 0-3 Sydney FC09/10/2009

VNewcastle Jets 1-3 Melbourne Victory18/10/2009

VMelbourne Victory 3-1 Adelaide United24/10/2009

VPerth Glory 1-2 Melbourne Victory01/11/2009

LMelbourne Victory 0-4 Central Coast Mariners07/11/2009

VBrisbane Roar 0-1 Melbourne Victory21/11/2009

Current form

Away

LNewcastle Jets 1-0 Gold Coast United30/08/2009

DPerth Glory 2-2 Gold Coast United13/09/2009

LCentral Coast Mariners 3-0 Gold Coast United19/09/2009

VBrisbane Roar 0-1 Gold Coast United11/10/2009

LWellington Phoenix 6-0 Gold Coast United25/10/2009

DAdelaide United 1-1 Gold Coast United20/11/2009

Overall

VBrisbane Roar 0-1 Gold Coast United11/10/2009

VGold Coast United 2-1 Perth Glory18/10/2009

LWellington Phoenix 6-0 Gold Coast United25/10/2009

LGold Coast United 0-2 North Queensland Fury31/10/2009

VGold Coast United 1-0 Sydney FC07/11/2009

DAdelaide United 1-1 Gold Coast United20/11/2009

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	1	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	1	0
Drawless streak	4	9
Scoring streak	0	1
Goalless streak	1	0
Conceding streak	8	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Winless streak	2	1
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	2	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

764	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	1069
1	FBDB index ranking (National)	8

Results

15	Number of games (Competition total)	15
8	Number of games (Home / Away)	8
8	Victories (Competition total)	7
2	Victories (Home / Away)	3
3	Draws (Competition total)	3
3	Draws (Home / Away)	2
4	Losses (Competition total)	5
3	Losses (Home / Away)	3

Goals

23	Goals scored (Competition total)	21
10	Goals scored (Home / Away)	9
22	Goals conceded (Competition total)	21
16	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	14
1.53	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.4
1.25	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.13
1.47	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.4
2	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.75

Betting aid

9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	8
5	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	4
3	Clean sheets (Competition total)	5
0	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
3	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	5
3	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	3
9	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	6
5	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	3
1-1 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	3-1 (1 times)

Bookings

25	Yellow cards (Competition total)	26
10	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	18
0	Red cards (Competition total)	3
0	Red cards (Home / Away)	2

Key players

Archie Thompson	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	11 goals	Shane Smeltz
Carlos Hernandez	3 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Shane Smeltz
Kevin Muscat	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Jason Culina
Archie Thompson	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	2 goals during the last 5 matches	Shane Smeltz

Historical head to head

Away

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

2 ga

Total

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

3 gf

2 ga

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

2 gf

3 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

2 gf

3 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 2	September 26, 2009
Home	No success yet

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

September 26, 2009 - A-League 2009/2010

Gold Coast

2 - 3

Melbourne V.

Best historical scorers against Gold Coast

Kevin Muscat	1 goal	2009 - 2009
Carlos Hernandez	1 goal	2009 - 2009
Archie Thompson	1 goal	2009 - 2009

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/09/2009. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Melbourne V.

	Joel Porter	1 goal	2009 - 2009
	Jason Culina	1 goal	2009 - 2009

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/09/2009. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Gold Coast

Glen Moss	1 match	2009 - 2009
Leigh Broxham	1 match	2009 - 2009
Surat Sukha	1 match	2009 - 2009
Matthew Kemp	1 match	2009 - 2009
Robbie Kruse	1 match	2009 - 2009
Mate Dugandzic	1 match	2009 - 2009

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 26/09/2009. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Melbourne V.

Jason Culina	1 match	2009 - 2009
Jess Vanstrattan	1 match	2009 - 2009
Steve Pantelidis	1 match	2009 - 2009
Kristian Rees	1 match	2009 - 2009
Ferreira Milson	1 match	2009 - 2009
Andrew Barisic	1 match	2009 - 2009