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With the Brisbane Lion Roar and FC Sydney match ending with the home team victory, the season's Australian Premier League regular season is all over, with the victory in the final round, the defending champion Melbourne City surpassed the same city rival Melbourne Victory by 1 point, winning the Australian Premier League regular season laurels, next, the 3rd to 6th place in the standings of Western United, Adelaide United, Midshore Mariners and Wellington Phoenix will be caught and killed, the winner will fight against melbourne double males, and the overall champion of the Australian Premier League will be decided on May 28 this year.
In fact, Melbourne City's unbeaten 11 rounds in the middle and late part of the season (with 8 of them) has almost killed the suspense of the title race, but in the penultimate rounds 2 and 3, the team lost to Melbourne Victory and Perth Glory before and after the group stage of the AFC Champions League (3 wins and 3 draws in the group stage), so that the city rival Melbourne Victory rekindled the hope of the championship. Melbourne Victory won 4-1 away to Sydney FC on May 7 local time, surpassing Melbourne City by two points, and only looking at the results of Melbourne City and Wellington to determine the final ownership of the championship.
As a result, the defending champions did not disappoint, they ended the suspense early in this make-up match, just 3 minutes into the opening, Wellington Phoenix's left wingback Sutton gave a gift, and 7 minutes later, the league's top scorer McLaren received a ferry from right winger Nabault to extend the score to 2-0, although Wellington recovered a point in the second half, but still failed to stop Melbourne City's progress.
McLaren
In the end, Melbourne City surpassed Melbourne Victory by one point and returned to the top of the table to win the Australian Premier League regular season championship. Jenkinson, who joined on loan from Nottingham Forest this season, also tasted the league title for the first time, and the team also included foreign players such as Empoli veteran and Italian striker Pucharelli. Melbourne City has a former Chinese Super League player in the team's centre-back veteran Roston Griffiths, who played in 34 Chinese Super League games for Guangzhou R&F in 2012 and 2013. The Melbourne Victory, which has Zhejiang Greentown veteran Spiranovic and Liaozu veteran Kruzer, can only be ranked second.
Griffith
Spiranović
The teams that finished 3rd to 6th were Western United, Adelaide United, Midshore Mariners and Wellington Phoenix. Among them, the former striker Aloisi, who has played in Serie A, La Liga and the Premier League, has been in charge of the Western United team for only three seasons, reaching the play-off stage for the second time, and the captain of the team is the old acquaintance of the Chinese Super League, former Italian international Diamanti. The four teams will face each other on May 14 and 15 local time, Western United at home against Wellington Phoenix, Adelaide United at home against the Midshore Mariners, the winner to reach the semifinals, and the melbourne two-legged matchup, the winner to the final final.
Diamanti
The top scorer in the Australian Premier League is still the 28-year-old Australian international McClaren, who won the Australian Premier League Golden Boot for the third consecutive time with 15 goals, but the production was far less than the 23 goals and 25 goals in the previous two seasons, followed by The Newcastle Jets' Georgian foreign aid MikelTadze with 13 goals; the assist king was Won by Brazilian winger Daniel Penha, who joined the Newcastle Jets on loan from Atlético Mineiro B; and the most clean sheets were made by Western United's veteran England goalkeeper Jame Young (10 times). The 36-year-old Reading has been playing in the Australian Premier League for eight seasons.
McLaren
Penha
Final rankings of the AUS Premier League regular season (top six in the playoffs):
1. Melbourne City 49 points, 2. Melbourne Victory 48 points, 3. Western United 45 points, 4. Adelaide United 43 points, 5. Midshore Mariners 42 points, 6. Wellington Phoenix 39 points, 7. MacArthur 33 points, 8. Sydney FC 31 points, 9. Newcastle Jets 29 points, 10. Western Sydney Rangers 27 points, 11. Brisbane Lions Roar, 12. Perth Glory