Newcastle Jets will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 10 points behind Wellington Phoenix.
Newcastle Jets and Wellington Phoenix should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Newcastle Jets form and stats
Overall A-League stats at home this season for Newcastle Jets are 5-4-3 (wins-draw-losses). It’s been three wins in a row for Newcastle here at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium, hoping to make this one the fourth consecutive victory.
The Newcastle goalkeeper Lewis Italiano is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 245 minutes without conceding a goal in the A-League.
The Newcastle supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Western United in A-League and win 1-0. 0-0 away at Central Coast Mariners before that.
This is expected to be a close game, with Newcastle Jets perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Newcastle as a small favourite), we find eleven games. Newcastle Jets has won three of these, drawn three and lost five.
Newcastle Jets are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 16 goals in 12 games. On the other hand, Newcastle have conceded 16 goals.
Wellington Phoenix form and stats
4-2-6 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Wellington Phoenix in their A-League matches away.
There were no winners in Wellington's previous match, a A-League home game that ended 1-1 vs Brisbane Roar (placed 4th). Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Western Sydney Wanderers's place.
So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Wellington Phoenix playing away and similar expectations, we found two relevant matches. Results were two Wellington wins, zero draws and zero defeats.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Wellington have scored 17 goals in 12 league games away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Wellington Phoenix have conceded 19 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have met before this season: Wellington Phoenix - Newcastle Jets 2-1. Last ten meetings between the teams: Newcastle won two, Wellington Phoenix won six and two draws. seven games with over 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  U. Dávila Plascencia 12 goals |  G. Hooper 8 goals |  D. Ball 6 goals |
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| Newcastle Jets | Wellington Phoenix | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 12 | 3 | Played | P | 4 | 12 | 25 |
| 8 | 5 | 1 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| 29 | 16 | 3 | Scored | S | 4 | 17 | 38 |
| 40 | 16 | 7 | Conceded | C | 3 | 19 | 30 |
| 92% | 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 75% | 92% | 96% |
| 80% | 83% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 75% | 80% |
| 52% | 50% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 25% | 67% | 60% |
| 20% | 17% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 42% | 24% |
| 12% | 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 17% | 8% |
| 60% | 67% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 75% | 68% |
| 24% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 8% | 20% |
| 24% | 17% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 25% | 16% |
| 6.1 | 5.8 | 3.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.6 |
| 5.9 | 6.2 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 5.3 | 5.3 |
| 1.6 | 1.6 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.2 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 389 | 185 | 41 | Total Shots | T S | 38 | 157 | 319 |
| 124 | 66 | 18 | Shots on Target | S O | 13 | 52 | 115 |
| 23% | 24% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 33% | 33% |
- Wellington Phoenix has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (10)
- Wellington Phoenix have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Sydney | 24 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 47 | 22 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 25 | 52 |
| 2 | Melbourne City | 24 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 44 | 34 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 10 | 43 |
| 3 | Wellington Phoenix | 25 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 38 | 30 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 19 | 8 | 41 |
| 4 | Brisbane Roar | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 28 | 27 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 39 |
| 5 | Perth Glory | 25 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 43 | 34 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 21 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 9 | 37 |
| 6 | Adelaide United | 25 | 11 | 2 | 12 | 42 | 47 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 24 | -5 | 35 |
| 7 | Western United | 23 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 41 | 33 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 33 |
| 8 | Newcastle Jets | 25 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 29 | 40 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 24 | -11 | 31 |
| 9 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 25 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 33 | 39 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 24 | -6 | 30 |
| 10 | Melbourne Victory | 25 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 32 | 42 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 21 | -10 | 23 |
| 11 | Central Coast Mariners | 26 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 26 | 55 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 25 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 13 | 30 | -29 | 18 |