Melbourne City vs Perth Glory Prediction and Betting Tips | December 27th 2025

Melbourne City will host Perth Glory at the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium on Saturday in the 10th round of the 2025-26 Australian A-League campaign. Both teams will be keen to return to winning ways after a couple of disappointing results in their recent outings.

Melbourne City were underwhelming in their last outing, having to settle for a 1-1 draw at home to Macarthur on Tuesday, and now sit fourth in the league with three wins from nine games. The defending champions finished last season’s regular campaign as runners-up before going on to lift the title via the playoffs, and will hope to replicate that feat this term despite an inconsistent start.

Perth Glory, on the other hand, have finished bottom of the A-League regular season in three of the last four campaigns and will be desperate to show signs of real improvement this term. The visitors had recently put together three consecutive league wins for the first time since 2021, but that momentum has stalled following back-to-back 1-0 defeats to Sydney FC and more recently, 10-man Adelaide United.

Melbourne City vs Perth Glory Head-to-Head and Key Numbers

• Sunday's game will mark the 36th meeting between the two sides. City have won 13 of the previous 35 meetings, eight ended in draws while Perth have won the remaining 14.
• The hosts boast an outstanding goalscoring record in this fixture, having netted 22 goals across the last five meetings.
• The visitors have failed to score any goals in four of their last five meetings with Melbourne City.
• Only Brisbane Boar (5) have conceded fewer goals in the league this season than Melbourne City’s seven.
• Perth Glory have the joint-second worst offensive record in the league with only seven goals scored after nine games played.

Melbourne City vs Perth Glory Prediction

The Hearts are favorites to get all three points and will only need to avoid complacency to get a result against a much weaker side.

The Glory will have their work cut out to avoid defeat against the defending champions. They have won their last two away games and will travel with confidence this weekend but could ultimately fall short.

Prediction: Melbourne City 2-0 Perth Glory

Melbourne City vs Perth Glory Betting Tips

Tip 1 - Result: City

Tip 2 - Goals - Over/under 2.5 - Under 2.5 goals: (Each of the hosts' last six games have produced fewer than 2.5 goals)

Tip 3 - Both teams to score: No

Edited by Ashwin