The visiting Melbourne City side should be favourites in this visit to Wellington Phoenix, as the away team holds a 9 point advantage from their 13 league games this season.
- Wellington Phoenix have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals (27) in A-League
Melbourne City could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a A-League game only four sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Western United. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.
Wellington Phoenix form and stats
With 2 A-League wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Wellington Phoenix are certainly not brimming with confidence.
The Wellington Phoenix crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 0-1 to Macarthur here at WIN Stadium in a A-League match. Before that game, the 4-1 home victory against Melbourne Victory.
Oliver Sail had a busy but productive day in the Macarthur match. Despite making six saves the loss could not be prevented.
A decent goal production from Wellington in their home games so far, with 12 goals from 8 league matches. Wellington's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Melbourne City form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most scored goals (27) in A-League, on their A-League travels is 3 wins, 0 draws and 4 defeats.
Two away games in a row for Melbourne, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 versus Western United in the A-League. A home win before that, celebrating 4-1 vs Western Sydney Wanderers.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Shan United in just two days.
Melbourne City are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 12 times in 7 away games so far. It's worth mentioning that 9 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 8 goals have been conceded by Melbourne in these games.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between the teams: Wellington won four, Melbourne City won six and zero draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. MacLaren 12 goals |   U. Dávila Plascencia 5 goals |  C. Noone 5 goals |
Wellington Phoenix missing players
Melbourne City missing players
| Wellington Phoenix | Melbourne City | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 3 | 7 | 13 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 21 | 12 | 0 | Scored | S | 7 | 12 | 27 |
| 21 | 11 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 8 | 15 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 93% | 88% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 71% | 85% |
| 57% | 62% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 43% | 62% |
| 21% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 29% | 38% |
| 14% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 29% | 31% |
| 64% | 62% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 46% |
| 14% | 12% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 43% | 38% |
| 21% | 25% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 29% | 15% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.8 | 1.1 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 1.8 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 15.6 | 16.2 | 12.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 13.9 | 16.4 |
| 4.1 | 5 | 2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 4.4 | 5.4 |
| 36% | 30% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 39% | 39% |
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals (27) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals in the first half (14) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the the best goal difference (+12) in A-League
- Melbourne City haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Wellington Phoenix have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Wellington Phoenix haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Central Coast Mariners | 15 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 29 |
| 2 | Adelaide United | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 23 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 25 |
| 3 | Melbourne City | 13 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 27 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 24 |
| 4 | Macarthur | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -2 | 23 |
| 5 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 22 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 22 |
| 6 | Sydney | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 19 |
| 7 | Western United | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 17 |
| 8 | Perth Glory | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 25 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 17 | -1 | 17 |
| 9 | Brisbane Roar | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 16 |
| 10 | Wellington Phoenix | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 21 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 15 |
| 11 | Newcastle Jets | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | -9 | 11 |
| 12 | Melbourne Victory | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 31 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13 | -18 | 8 |