Twelve wins in a row have taken Rado Vidosic’s dominant side to within 90 minutes of glory, with only Sydney – who finished third in the regular season – able to prevent them from becoming the first team to do the double since 2009.

One of the few leagues to continue in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, the W-League decider will be held behind closed doors, with only players, officials and media to attend.

Melbourne City FC earned the right to host the match after a convincing 5-1 win over the Western Sydney Wanderers FC in Sunday’s W-League 2020 Semi-final. 

Sydney FC advanced to the Grand Final following their 1-0 win over Melbourne Victory in a thrilling match on Saturday.

City blew the Finals Series debutants to pieces in a first-half siege which saw Clare Emslie, Kyah Simon and Rebekah Stott goals establish a 3-0 lead inside 40 minutes.

The 24-year-old American striker showed her poacher’s instincts in the 14th minute to net her third goal of the season, a campaign which started late as she recovered from an ACL tear that forced her to spend six months on the sidelines.

After the Sky Blues took a slender lead into the sheds, Victory came out all guns blazing in the second half but the home side’s most dangerous threats – Natasha Dowie and Darian Jenkins – were kept shackled at Epping Stadium.

There were over 28,000 fans in attendance at Western Sydney Stadium on October 26, 2019 when the Sky Blues faced the Wanderers. In the return to the venue this weekend, not a seat in the stands will be occupied as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

A state of affairs, that Wilkinson confessed, would result in a unique neighbourly encounter in what is usually a cacophonous cauldron of noise and colour.

Elsewhere in ASEAN, A-League leaders Sydney FC drew with Perth Glory, Malaysian champions Johor Darul Ta'zim were held at home and Persib Bandung maintained their lead at the top of Indonesia's Liga 1.

There was also plenty of action in Cambodia and Singapore while in East Asia there were FA Cup quarter-finals in Hong Kong and a pair of huge scores in Guam, so join the-AFC.com as we review the latest rounds of fixtures from the two regions.

With 34 international goals in the last 32 months, and a string of individual awards at club level thanks to her exploits with Australia’s Perth Glory and the US-based Chicago Red Stars, Kerr is already established as one of the world’s top strikers, but 2020 looms as an opportunity to break new ground.