Struggling Wellington Phoenix will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Western Sydney Wanderers in the upcoming league round. It’s 11th vs 4th and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
- Wellington Phoenix has the fewest points (0) at home in A-League
- Western Sydney Wanderers have not yet lost a game away.
Wellington Phoenix and Western Sydney Wanderers 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.
Wellington Phoenix form and stats
Three A-League home games done for Wellington Phoenix, who are not happy collecting 0 points from these matches. Game days at WIN Stadium have recently become somewhat of a nightmare for Wellington as they have lost three home games in a row. It hurts.
Wellington's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-2 versus Central Coast Mariners (placed 1st). A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Sydney.
The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Wellington have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found twelve matches with the results: Won eight, drawn two and lost two.
Wellington are traveling soon after this match as the A-League match at Melbourne Victory awaits in three days.
Wellington aren't scoring a lot here at WIN Stadium in the league, with only 2 goals from 3 games. Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Wellington Phoenix with 6 goals conceded in these matches.
Western Sydney Wanderers form and stats
The visitors are W2-D2-L0 on the road this term. That's in the A-League.
The supporters enjoyed Wanderers's previous game versus Melbourne Victory (placed 12th), a A-League 2-0 win played at home. A 2-2 draw at Macarthur's stadium before that.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Wanderers in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Western Sydney Wanderers, three draws and seven defeats.
After this away game Wanderers return home for a A-League game against Brisbane Roar. That game is only three sleeps after this.
Wanderers are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 6 times in 4 away games so far. As opposed to that, Wanderers have seen the ball go into their own net 4 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Wellington won four games, two matches ended with a draw and Western Sydney Wanderers has four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / fourTop Goalscorers
  U. Dávila Plascencia 3 goals |   G. Dorrans 2 goals |  D. Ball 1 goals |
Wellington Phoenix missing players
Western Sydney Wanderers missing players
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| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 10 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 71% |
| 67% | 67% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 25% | 14% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 83% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 75% | 57% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 17% | 33% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 14% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 | 1 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1.8 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 18.3 | 7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 13.5 | 13.1 |
| 4 | 5 | 1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.2 | 4 |
| 25% | 13% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 35% | 32% |
- All of Wellington Phoenix's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Wellington Phoenix has the fewest points (0) at home in A-League
- Wellington Phoenix has the fewest scored goals (2) at home in A-League
- Wellington Phoenix has the the worst goal difference (-4) at home in A-League
- Wellington Phoenix have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Wellington Phoenix have lost all their home matches so far.
- Wellington Phoenix haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Western Sydney Wanderers have not yet lost a game away.
- Western Sydney Wanderers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Western Sydney Wanderers have scored at least twice as many goals away as Wellington Phoenix have scored home.
- Western Sydney Wanderers have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Western Sydney Wanderers 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 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 18 |
| 2 | Macarthur | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 |
| 3 | Brisbane Roar | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 13 |
| 4 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| 5 | Sydney | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 6 | Perth Glory | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 9 |
| 7 | Newcastle Jets | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 8 |
| 8 | Adelaide United | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -6 | 7 |
| 9 | Melbourne City | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -4 | 6 |
| 10 | Western United | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 5 |
| 11 | Wellington Phoenix | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -4 | 4 |
| 12 | Melbourne Victory | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -7 | 4 |