{"id":306050,"date":"2026-02-28T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306050\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:05:07","slug":"auckland-fc-v-melbourne-city-live-updates-a-league-clash-between-premier-plate-winners-and-defending-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306050\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland FC v Melbourne City live updates: A-League clash between Premier Plate winners and defending champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Live updates of the A-League clash between Auckland FC and defending champions Melbourne City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Auckland FC see the return of striker Sam Cosgrove who missed last week\u2019s derby win over the Phoenix. Steve Corica\u2019s side go into the round four points back from leaders Newcastle, while Melbourne City are outside the playoff spots in eighth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The teams last met on January 16 at AAMI Park with Melbourne City FC winning 2-1 while the round one clash was a 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-below\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-below\">Save<\/a>ShareShare this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live updates of the A-League clash between Auckland FC and defending champions Melbourne City. Auckland FC see the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27500,95,51,5432,31100,2199,3019,45609,26845,4960,123,111,139,69,9426,14730,213,7245,16566],"class_list":{"0":"post-306050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aleague","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-auckland","11":"tag-between","12":"tag-champions","13":"tag-city","14":"tag-clash","15":"tag-defending","16":"tag-fc","17":"tag-live","18":"tag-melbourne","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-plate","23":"tag-premier","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-updates","26":"tag-winners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}