It's advantage Team Wellington so far with their 2nd position in the Premiership table, welcoming Southern United who are placed 6th.
There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.
Team Wellington form and stats
Seven points from three Premiership home games is a great start for Team Wellington, who are hoping to build on that form here.
Happy days for Team Wellington in their previous game, a Premiership match away at Eastern Suburbs (placed 5th) that ended with a 3-2 victory. Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Canterbury United.
The game against Eastern Suburbs had lots of late drama as Team Wellington came back from being down minute.
Team Wellington are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (9 goals in 3 games). On the other hand, Team Wellington have conceded 4 goals.
Southern United form and stats
Southern United are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premiership, having played 2 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 1 loss).
Southern United's last game was the home draw against Hawke's Bay United (2-2). Prior to that result Southern United won their away game at Waitakere United. The scoreline was 5-2.
Southern United have the goal stats of 6-4 (for/against) from 2 business trips in the league at this early stage of the season.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Team Wellington 8 wins, 2 draws and Southern United 0 victories. As for goals, 7 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 3 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  J. Stevens 6 goals |   G. Coughlan 4 goals |
Team Wellington missing players
Southern United missing players
| Team Wellington | Southern United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | 9 | 0 | Scored | S | 5 | 6 | 14 |
| 9 | 4 | 0 | Conceded | C | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 67% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 83% | 100% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| 2.7 | 4 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 4 | 6.5 | 6.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 0.3 | 0.5 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 1 | 0.8 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | 16 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 6 | 13 | 48 |
| 5 | 5 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 8 | 25 |
| 140% | 140% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 83% | 75% | 48% |
- All of Southern United's matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Team Wellington's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Southern United has the most scored goals in the second half (10)
- Southern United have created more than twice as many corners as Team Wellington.
- Southern United have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Southern United haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Team Wellington has the most points (7) at home
- Team Wellington has the most points from losing position (7)
- Team Wellington has the most scored goals (9) at home
- Team Wellington has the the best goal difference (+5) at home
- Team Wellington have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Team Wellington have not yet lost a game at home.
- Team Wellington have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
- Team Wellington have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Team Wellington 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 | Auckland City | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 16 |
| 2 | Team Wellington | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | Waitakere United | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 11 |
| 4 | Hawke's Bay United | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 | Eastern Suburbs | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 8 |
| 6 | Southern United | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 7 | Tasman United | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 7 |
| 8 | Wellington Phoenix Res | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | -4 | 5 |
| 9 | Canterbury United | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -4 | 5 |
| 10 | Hamilton Wanderers | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | -13 | 3 |