Victory defender Nick Ansell to miss at least two games with groin injury Melbourne Victory coach Ange Postecoglou says his team could have controlled the game better but was pleased with win Nick Ansell of the Melbourne Victory is out injured for at least the next two weeks. YOUNG Victory defender Nick Ansell will miss at least a fortnight after straining his groin in Saturday's derby win over Melbourne Heart. Victory is still awaiting scans but coach Ange Postecoglou conceded he would miss Friday's trip to Adelaide and next week's huge clash against Western Sydney. But Postecoglou was delighted with the performance of debutants Scott Galloway and sub Connor Pain, and said the pair was every chance to remain in the squad this week. Victory will be forced to shuffle the side around yet again with Mark Milligan away on Socceroos duty and the injury to Ansell. "We're awaiting some scans but it's fairly significant and it's likely to be a medium term injury so he'll be out for a few weeks," Postecoglou said. Now we have a few decisions to make at least because of Ansell and Millsy out. Our depth's been tested a few times this season and again this week but we've managed to pull through. Scotty did really well and Pain was bright when he came on. Scotty was up against probably their key attacking player (David Williams) and I thought he held him really well - when he scored he was on the opposite side. That's probably 40 times bigger than the biggest crowd he's played in front of and he held himself with maturity. With Connor we had to reward him because he was playing so well in the youth team. He's grown every week and that was as good a game as any to give him an opportunity. Postecoglou said Adelaide may have been vulnerable at the weekend but they'll be eager to atone for the 4-2 home loss to the Wanderers. "Maybe last week they were vulnerable with a change of coach, but they'll be hurting from that loss so we're expecting a tough one," he said. They're traditionally big games on the calendar so you can throw the formguide out the window.