This promises to be another entertaining encounter at Westpac Stadium in the A-League. Wellington Phoenix is in 7th position and receive Western United in 12th place. Read about the game here!
- Wellington Phoenix have not yet lost a game at home.
- Western United have the most conceded goals (14) in A-League
Wellington Phoenix and Western United 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
Wellington Phoenix have secured 5 points from their first three home games in the A-League. A decent catch, still with room for improvement.
Wellington Phoenix's previous game was also played at home, ending 4-1 versus Macarthur (placed 10th). The home side are looking to build on that result. At last, a league victory after four games without.
Preceding that game was the away draw at Melbourne City that finished 2-2.This is expected to be a close game, with Wellington perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Wellington Phoenix as a small favourite), we find 12 games. Wellington Phoenix has won 8 of these, drawn 3 and lost 1.
Goals from both sides! That has happened in 5 league rounds in a row for this side. Will it happen again?
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (7 in 3 games), Wellington Phoenix's attacking play is working. Wellington Phoenix have conceded 4 in these home matches.
Western United form and stats
No A-League points yet away for Western United, from their first 2 matches.
Home advantage was not enough for Western in their previous game as they lost hosting Adelaide United, 2-4. A crazy, crazy fixture with an abundance of goals last time out for Western United, as mentioned above. 6 goals in total, will this fixture be as much fun? Milanovic, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.24. Milanovic scored one goal.
A 2-4 defeat away at Central Coast Mariners before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 8 similar matches played by Western United in our archives, and the results are: 4 wins for Western United, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
Will both teams score? This club's most recent statistics suggest that, having completed 5 league matches in a row with one or more goals from each side.
{3 goals} so far away for Western United, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 6. All from 2 league matches away.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Wellington seven wins, one draw and Western United two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.
Top Goalscorers
  B. Waine 3 goals |   N. Milanovic 3 goals |  B. Kraev 2 goals |
Wellington Phoenix missing players
Western United missing players
| Wellington Phoenix | Western United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 5 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | 7 | 4 | Scored | S | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Conceded | C | 0 | 6 | 14 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 80% | 67% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 80% |
| 80% | 67% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 20% | 33% | 100% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 50% | 40% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 4.2 | 3.3 | 4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 2 | 5.2 |
| 4.4 | 5 | 2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 9.5 | 6 |
| 2.2 | 1.7 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3.5 | 2.8 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14.6 | 13.3 | 16 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 7 | 13.4 |
| 5.6 | 5.3 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 3 | 5.2 |
| 36% | 44% | 50% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 50% | 27% |
| 12.2 | 14 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 0 | 24 | 17 |
| 5 | 5.3 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 0 | 10 | 7.2 |
- All of Wellington Phoenix's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- All of Western United's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Wellington Phoenix have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Wellington Phoenix have not yet lost a game at home.
- Wellington Phoenix have scored in all their matches so far.
- Wellington Phoenix have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Wellington Phoenix haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Western United have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Western United have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Western United have lost all their away matches so far.
- Western United have scored in all their matches so far.
- Western United have the most conceded goals (14) in A-League
- Western United have the most conceded goals in the first half (7) in A-League
- Western United have the most dropped points from leading position (6) in A-League
- Western United have the the worst goal difference (-7) in A-League
- Western United have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Western United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Western United is in the worst form (0-1-4)
| Wellington Phoenix | Last season | Western United | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 27 | 13 | Played | P | 15 | 30 | ||
| 12 | 8 | Won | W | 6 | 16 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 12 | 3 | Lost | L | 5 | 8 | ||
| 34 | 19 | Scored | S | 21 | 47 | ||
| 50 | 20 | Conceded | C | 19 | 32 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 85% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 67% | ||
| 70% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 47% | 47% | ||
| 37% | 31% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 30% | ||
| 15% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 13% | 17% | ||
| 52% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 47% | ||
| 19% | 23% | Clean Sheets | C S | 27% | 40% | ||
| 30% | 23% | Failed to Score | F T | 13% | 13% | ||
| 4.6 | 5.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.7 | 5.6 | ||
| 6 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6.4 | 6 | ||
| 1.7 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13 | 13.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.3 | 13 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.1 | 4.4 | ||
| 28% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 34% | 35% | ||
| 18.6 | 17.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16.7 | 15 | ||
| 6.1 | 5.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.9 | 5 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Melbourne City | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 13 |
| 2 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 3 | Adelaide United | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 4 | Central Coast Mariners | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | Melbourne Victory | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | Sydney | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 7 | Wellington Phoenix | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | Brisbane Roar | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 | Newcastle Jets | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | -3 | 6 |
| 10 | Macarthur | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 5 |
| 11 | Perth Glory | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 3 |
| 12 | Western United | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -7 | 1 |
