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Join Lachie Avil and Jacob Stevens as Melbourne City fail to capitalise over 100 minutes of Buriram United at 10 men and crash out on penalties from the Champions League Elite.

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Join Lachie Avil, Christian Montegan and Jacob Stevens for a lighter week in the A-League. Newcastle are the only team to earn three points and earn a further gap on the rest of the field. Mata's epic free kick made more global headlines but wasn't enough as Sydney come back to earn a Big Blue stalemate.

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Photo: Marcus Robertson.

Join Lachie Avil, Will Booth and Jacob Stevens as the Mariners get the better of the Bulls in midweek to jump them into the top six. Meanwhile, Melbourne City equalise late in the first leg of their Champions League Elite round of 16 clash against Buriram United. The boys also romanticise about what may be yet to come this year as we close in on the Men's World Cup.

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Join Lachie Avil, Poletti, Christian Montegan and Will Booth for a loaded episode of the Round Ball Australia podcast!

The Matildas get their AFC Women's Asian Cup campaign off to a winning start against the Philippines, in Perth. Meanwhile in the A-League, the Central Coast Mariners are the side to end the Newcastle Jet's winning streak in the F3 derby!

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Join Lachie Avil, Matt Olsen and Jacob Stevens as the Matildas prepare to begin their new campaign on home soil for Asian Cup glory, while we give the latest update to our rolling Socceroos World Cup tier list after the January transfer window.

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Join Lachie Avil, Christian Montegan and Declan Archer for one of the most entertaining weekends in recent A-League Memory.

Two goals and an assist in the Melbourne Derby sees the A-League capture some global attention. A first-half beyond belief in the New Zealand Derby sees Giancarlo Italiano tender his resignation after the match. Mariners come from behind twice, Jets set another attendance record, Adelaide kill the Glory and Tiago Quintal steps up again for Sydney.

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Photo: Marcus Robertson

Join Lachie Avil, Poletti and Jacob Stevens for a disappointing midweek showing from our Aussie teams in Asia. The Bulls are out of the Champions League Two, leaving themselves too much work to do in the home leg, City hold firm at home to set up a rematch with an A-League Championship winning coach, Sydney give up 3 points in a hilarious manner and the Matildas drop their squad for the Women's Asian Cup.

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Join Lachie Avil and Jacob Stevens as new CEO of the APL, Steve Rosich sits down for his first extended interview in charge of the league. Stefan Mauk gets caught up in some unfortunate ineligibility drama in Asia and both of Ange Postecoglou's Premier League replacements are sacked within the same 24 hours!

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Join Lachie Avil, Christian Montegan and Matt Olsen as the A-League transfer window comes to a close. We grade every club's window relative to their competitiveness this season and react as Melbourne City score another late goal to clinch 3 points and qualification to the knockout stage in the Asian Champions League Elite.

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Join Jacob Stevens, Will Booth and Christian Montegan to quite literally in one case draw the line over the last weekend of A-League football!

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