Melbourne City 1-3 Perth Glory — Result, Statistics & Match Review — Australia - A-League, 28 Dec 2025

📅28/12/2025 · 🕒11:00 Istanbul · GMT+3
Top 2 Score Predictions
1st Score 2-1 2nd Score 3-1
MODEL iddaakolik · Our Predictions
Probability per market · Global + League + Team blend
⏱ Odds and predictions are pre-match — updates freeze from ~20 minutes before kick-off.
Match Result
Home
55%
1.64
Draw
24%
3.72
Away
21%
4.31
Under/Over 2.5
Under 2.5
47%
1.86
Over 2.5
53%
1.86
Both Teams to Score
Yes
53%
1.88
No
47%
1.82
Total Goals
0-1 Goal
24%
3.19
2-3 Goals
39%
1.78
4-5 Goals EV+ ✓
25%
3.55
6+ Goals
12%
14.2
Value flag · 4-5 Goals at 3.55 — our 25% vs market 22.4%. Landed.
Half Time / Full Time
1/1
27%
2.16
1/2
6%
35.0
1/X
6%
15.55
X/1
19%
4.07
X/2
7%
9.86
X/X
8%
5.28
2/1
8%
23.55
2/2
8%
8.16
2/X
11%
17.3
PRO iddaakolik · Analysis Engine
Model vs Market · Probabilities · Discipline
Our call
Melbourne City win — 55%
Fair price · no betting value
The bookmaker priced every market fairly — no dependable value at these odds, so skipping is the disciplined play.
Our call is our best estimate of the outcome; a value flag is a separate, rarer judgement about the price.
Model vs Market — where we differ
iddaakolik Market EU Bookmakers
55%
Home Win
57%
-1.6pp
24%
Draw
24%
+0.7pp
21%
Away Win
20%
+0.8pp
47%
Under 2.5
50%
-3.0pp
53%
Over 2.5
50%
+2.9pp
53%
BTTS Yes
49%
+4.0pp
47%
BTTS No
51%
-4.0pp
gold — our model green — our served pick grey — EU market (margin removed: each group sums to 100%)
Edge (pp): green = we see more probability than the market · gold = essentially even (±0.5pp) · red = we see less. The Decision above outranks any single row: the engine backs well-supported edges, not merely big ones.
PREVIEW Match Preview Engine
iddaakolik Team Elo · Form · Goals signals
HOME Melbourne City EU Bookmakers 61%
Head to Head
AWAY Perth Glory EU Bookmakers 23%
+3% / +7% Team Performance vs MarketAll History / Recent Form · above/below bookmaker expectations -2% / +7%
2.01/0.92 Expected GoalsScored / Conceded 1.25/1.79
+18% / +68% Attack / Defense(vs League Avg.) +1% / +1%
54% Ball Possession 46%
15 Total Shots 9
6 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 4
410 · 82% PassesSuccessful · Accuracy 338 · 78%
32.0 Box TouchesOpposition Penalty Area 19.3
17.3 Crosses 16.8
1.7 Yellow Cards 2.1
H2H Past Meetings
Real recorded figures, averaged over these meetings
HOME Melbourne City
4W-0D-2L
AWAY Perth Glory
4.00 Avg Goals (FT) 1.50
2.16 xG 1.09
61% Ball Possession 39%
19 Total Shots 11
7 Shots on Target 4
6 Corners 4
496 Passes 280
83% Pass Accuracy 72%
34 Box Touches 18
20 Crosses 14
2 Yellow Cards 2
25.10.2025 Melbourne City Melbourne City 4-0 HT 2-0 Perth Glory Perth Glory AVUS
15.02.2025 Melbourne City Melbourne City 1-0 HT 1-0 Perth Glory Perth Glory AVUS
10.11.2024 Perth Glory Perth Glory 0-5 HT 0-2 Melbourne City Melbourne City AVUS
03.08.2024 Perth Glory Perth Glory 5-4 HT 1-1 Melbourne City Melbourne City AVUK
14.04.2024 Melbourne City Melbourne City 8-0 HT 5-0 Perth Glory Perth Glory AVUS
02.02.2024 Perth Glory Perth Glory 4-2 HT 1-1 Melbourne City Melbourne City AVUS
RESULT Match Result
Real recorded figures from this match
HOME Melbourne City
1-3
AWAY Perth Glory
1.95 xG 1.87
63% Ball Possession 37%
16 Total Shots 12
4 Shots on Target 8
9 Corners 2
477 Passes 249
86% Pass Accuracy 76%
33 Box Touches 15
28 Crosses 6
2 Yellow Cards 1
POST-MATCH Melbourne City vs Perth Glory
iddaakolik Post-Match Analysis — what we said & what happened

Perth Glory beat Melbourne City 3-1 away from home. Half-time: 0-2.

By our pre-match numbers this was an upset: we had Melbourne City at 55% and the game still went the other way. Single results are noisy — probabilities earn their keep across thousands of matches, not one.

Over 2.5 goals sat near a coin-flip at 53% and both teams to score was close to even at 53%.

On the day, Melbourne City had 63% of the ball to Perth Glory's 37%, shots finished 16-12, expected goals 1.95 to 1.87.

Coming into the game, across their last 6 meetings in our records, Melbourne City had the better of it with 4 wins. Those games averaged 4.00 goals for Melbourne City and 1.50 for Perth Glory.

What was the final score of Melbourne City vs Perth Glory?

Melbourne City 1-3 Perth Glory in the Australia - A-League on 28/12/2025. The analysis above shows what our model predicted before kick-off next to what actually happened.

What did the model predict for Melbourne City vs Perth Glory?

Before kick-off our model rated a Melbourne City win the most likely single outcome at about 55%, with the full match-result split Melbourne City 55%, draw 24%, Perth Glory 21%. The final score 1-3 confirmed our model's pre-match leads on Over 2.5, BTTS Yes — while Match Result (Melbourne City) went the other way.

✗ Match Result (Melbourne City) ✓ Over 2.5 ✓ BTTS Yes
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