Melbourne Victory has named its squads for Round 5 Men’s and Round 3 Women’s action this weekend.
A huge Melbourne Derby clash awaits on Saturday night in the Isuzu UTE A-league.
Rai Marchan will make his return after a one-game suspension for his red card incident against Perth. Jason Davidson will miss with his own one-game suspension after receiving a second yellow card in last week’s 2-1 win in Adelaide.
Star winger Chris Ikonomidis has impressed at training and is a possible inclusion.
Brendan Hamill is on track with his recovery but may not feature this week. Matt Acton is also closing in on a return but won’t be a part of the squad.
In the Liberty A-League, Victory are eyeing their third straight win to open the season when they travel to Brisbane to face the Roar on Saturday afternoon.
US star Lynn Williams is a chance to start following her late-game heroics coming off the bench last week.
Amy Jackson will miss after her red card in the Derby win.
Men’s squad v Melbourne City (‘away’ at AAMI Park) – Saturday 7.45pm AEDT
#2 Jason Geria
#4 Rai Marchan
#5 Matt Spiranovic
#6 Leigh Broxham
#7 Chris Ikonomidis
#8 Josh Brillante (C)
#9 Francesco Margiotta
#10 Robbie Kruse
#11 Ben Folami
#13 Birkan Kirdar
#14 Jay Barnett
#15 Aaron Anderson
#16 Stefan Nigro
#17 Brendan Hamill
#18 Nick D’Agostino
#19 Jerrad Tyson
#20 Ivan Kelava
#21 Roderick Miranda
#22 Jake Brimmer
#23 Marco Rojas
#24 Nishan Velupillay
#25 Luis Lawrie-Lattanzio
#26 Lleyton Brooks
#27 Zaydan Bello
Women’s squad v Brisbane Roar (away) – Saturday 5.05pm AEDT
#1 Casey Dumont
#2 Tiffany Eliadis
#3 Claudia Bunge
#4 Emma Robers
#5 Courtney Nevin
#6 Lynn Williams
#7 Kyra Cooney-Cross
#8 Alana Murphy
#9 Catherine Zimmerman
#10 Alex Chidiac
#11 Harriet Withers
#13 Polly Doran
#14 Melina Ayres
#16 Paige Zois
#17 Maja Markovski
#19 Lia Privitelli (C)
#20 Melissa Maizels
#30 MelindaJ Barbieri
#40 Sophia Varley
