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Melbourne Victory v Melbourne City was the first match of the two teams in the 2016–17 A-League season which took place at Etihad Stadium on 15 October 2016.

The first goal went to the new Tim Cahill for Melbourne City. He scored from 25 yards and it became the most famous goals for Melbourne City when Tim Cahill announced his arrival for City in this style.

Then, Melbourne City then doubled their lead. Nicolás Colázo crossed the ball to the right for Bruno Fornaroli for a header to the bottom right corner for 2–0.

Bruno Fornaroli passed to Bruce Kamau who just got away from the Victory defender, Alan Baró who was running to the goal side for a pass to Luke Brattan who did shoot the ball and did score on the right side of the net for 3–0.

Marco Rojas then was looking for a pass until then to run on for a goal Victory, he took a shot pass Dean Bouzanis and Victory got their first goal of the match. Rojas then made it 3–1.

From the goal for Victory, the referee got the game back underway, until then an immediate response from Fernando Brandán to the bottom left corner, but appealing for a foul on Jason Geria and the goal stood for 4–1 to Melbourne City.