14 of the 16 spots in the Australia Cup Round of 16 are now confirmed after both Melbourne A-League clubs cruised through their Round of 32 clashes on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Melbourne City beat Weston Bears 3-0\u00a0to advance for the first time since 2023, with Lawrence Wong opening the scoring with a tidy finish. He was a fitting scorer, a young star in a line-up with an average age of just 21.1, featuring nine academy graduates.<\/p>\n
17-year-old Besian Kutleshi finally made it 2-0 with 10 minutes to go, a reflection of how competitive the Northern NSW outfit made the contest, before Medin Memeti\u00a0finished off an Andrew Nabbout assist. <\/p>\n
New Melbourne Victory coach Giovanni Savarese\u00a0enjoyed progress to the Round of 16 courtesy of a 4-0 win over \u00a0Tasmania\u2019s Kingborough Lions United.<\/p>\n
Phillip Ziereis\u00a0opened the scoring in his first competitive outing for the club; the German defender finishing firmly from close range after a corner wasn\u2019t dealt with. <\/p>\n
Goals from Matthew Grimaldi, Clarismario Santos and Keegan Jelacic rounded out a successful trip south for the A-League side. <\/p>\n
Who has qualified for the Round of 16?\u00a0<\/p>\n
1. APIA Leichhardt<\/p>\n
2. Moreland Zebras<\/p>\n
3. Queensland Lions<\/p>\n
4. Heidelberg United<\/p>\n
5. Sydney FC<\/p>\n
6. Preston Lions<\/p>\n
7. North Sunshine Eagles<\/p>\n
8. SD Raiders<\/p>\n
9. Fremantle City\u00a0<\/p>\n
10. Sydney United<\/p>\n
11. Western Sydney Wanderers<\/p>\n
12. Macarthur<\/p>\n
13. Melbourne City<\/p>\n
14. Melbourne Victory<\/p>\n
15. South Melbourne or Adelaide United, Thursday 7.30pm AEST<\/p>\n
16. Sydney Olympic or Brisbane Roar, Thursday 7.30pm AEST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"14 of the 16 spots in the Australia Cup Round of 16 are now confirmed after both Melbourne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,282044,27013,44],"class_list":["post-824868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-melbourne-city","tag-melbourne-victory","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}