It's still early in the A-League season, but we are learning more and more about the teams. Here is the Wellington Phoenix - Newcastle Jets preview!
There has not been much time to rest for the guests, as they played a A-League game only four days ago.
Wellington Phoenix form and stats
The home fans saw their team lose the first A-League game of the season here at WIN Stadium. Last season these fans witnessed 8 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses from Wellington Phoenix's 13 home games.
Wellington Phoenix manager U. Talay and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus Macarthur (placed 4th) in the A-League. Ahead of that match, Wellington lost 1-2 at home to Sydney.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Wellington have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found three games) they have won two times, drawn zero and lost one.
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Perth Glory are coming to town in three days.
At WIN Stadium, Wellington Phoenix has the goal stats of 1-2 (for/against) from 1 league fixture.
Newcastle Jets form and stats
Newcastle Jets have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the A-League were 3 victories, 3 draws and 7 defeats from 13 fixtures. It's looking increasingly bleak for Newcastle Jets who now has to deal with a four game losing streak. Central Coast Mariners was the last time a defeat was avoided.
Newcastle failed to get anything from their last game, a A-League home match vs Brisbane Roar (placed 5th) that ended with defeat 1-2. A 1-2 loss hosting Macarthur before that.
Newcastle Jets are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, one draw and six defeats. From a total of ten matches.
0 goals so far away for Newcastle Jets, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 1. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
Wellington Phoenix-Newcastle Jets H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Wellington Phoenix five wins, Newcastle Jets three wins, two draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
  V. Yuel 2 goals |  D. Ball 1 goals | M. Muratovic 1 goals |
Wellington Phoenix missing players
Newcastle Jets missing players
| Wellington Phoenix | Newcastle Jets | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 75% |
| 50% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 75% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 75% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 25% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.5 | 2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 5 | 2.8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 22 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 9 | 17.2 |
| 4.5 | 6 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 7 | 6.5 |
| 22% | 17% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| Wellington Phoenix | Last season | Newcastle Jets | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 27 | 14 | Played | P | 13 | 26 | ||
| 12 | 8 | Won | W | 3 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 7 | ||
| 10 | 3 | Lost | L | 7 | 10 | ||
| 38 | 21 | Scored | S | 13 | 32 | ||
| 34 | 12 | Conceded | C | 24 | 40 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 78% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 77% | 81% | ||
| 59% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 54% | ||
| 22% | 7% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 19% | ||
| 7% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 15% | 12% | ||
| 63% | 57% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 58% | ||
| 19% | 29% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 27% | ||
| 22% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 31% | 23% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.9 | 1.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 13.7 | 14.1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15.7 | 15.6 | ||
| 4.7 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 5 | ||
| 30% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 22% | 25% | ||
| 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 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | Adelaide United | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | Macarthur | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 | Brisbane Roar | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Melbourne City | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 7 | Western United | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Sydney | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | -1 | 4 |
| 9 | Perth Glory | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Wellington Phoenix | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| 11 | Melbourne Victory | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 0 |
| 12 | Newcastle Jets | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -4 | 0 |
| Last season | 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 | 26 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 49 | 25 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 13 | 24 | 53 |
| 2 | Melbourne City | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 49 | 37 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 15 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 22 | 12 | 47 |
| 3 | Wellington Phoenix | 26 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 38 | 33 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 22 | 5 | 41 |
| 4 | Brisbane Roar | 26 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 29 | 28 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 40 |
| 5 | Western United | 26 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 46 | 37 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 26 | 24 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 39 |
| 6 | Perth Glory | 26 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 43 | 36 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 23 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 37 |
| 7 | Adelaide United | 26 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 44 | 49 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 26 | -5 | 36 |
| 8 | Newcastle Jets | 26 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 32 | 40 | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 24 | -8 | 34 |
| 9 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 35 | 40 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 17 | 24 | -5 | 33 |
| 10 | Melbourne Victory | 26 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 33 | 44 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 23 | -11 | 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 |