This match features two teams living in the basement of the Premiership, Wellington Phoenix Res holding 9th place and Southern United lying 8th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
Wellington Phoenix Res form and stats
Three Premiership home games done for Wellington Phoenix Res, who are not happy collecting 1 point from these matches. With three draws from their last three games overall it has been a case of neither great nor terrible for Wellington Phoenix Res.
The home team returns after sharing the points with Eastern Suburbs (placed 4th) on their last time out; the Premiership game ended 2-2. In the match before that, Wellington Phoenix Res hosted Canterbury United and drew the game 3-3.
A case of two points dropped for Wellington Phoenix Res in the Eastern Suburbs match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw.
Goals decide football matches and Wellington Phoenix Res are scoring many of them at home; 6 on target from 3 league matches. Wellington Phoenix Res have allowed more than three conceded goals on average in their home matches so far.
Southern United form and stats
Southern United are doing rather OK so far in their away games in the Premiership, having played 3 games and collected 3 points (1 win, 0 draws and 2 losses).
Southern United's last game was the home draw against Auckland City (0-0). Prior to that match, the Southern United manager P. O'Reilly faced defeat when travelling to Team Wellington and losing 1-6.
The Southern United manager P. O'Reilly has got the team scoring on the road, with 7 away goals in 3 league matches. Southern United can't defend away. 10 goals have been scored by the opposition in 3 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Wellington Phoenix Res won 5 games, 2 matches ended with a draw and Southern United has 3 wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: 8 / 2Top Goalscorers
  G. Coughlan 5 goals |
Wellington Phoenix Res missing players
Southern United missing players
| Wellington Phoenix Res | Southern United | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 3 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 16 | 6 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 7 | 15 |
| 20 | 10 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 10 | 19 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 88% |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 88% |
| 88% | 100% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 88% |
| 75% | 67% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 67% | 62% |
| 38% | 67% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 67% | 38% |
| 88% | 67% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 62% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 12% | 33% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 1.5 | 4 | 0 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.3 | 4.9 |
| 4 | 8 | 0 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 3.3 | 4.3 |
| 1.6 | 3.3 | 0 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0.7 | 0.6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | 21 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 13 | 48 |
| 17 | 14 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 8 | 25 |
| 94% | 43% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 88% | 52% |
- All of Southern United's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- All of Wellington Phoenix Res's home-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Southern United have created more than twice as many corners as Wellington Phoenix Res.
- Southern United have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Wellington Phoenix Res has the fewest points (1) at home
- Wellington Phoenix Res has the most conceded goals in the second half (11)
- Wellington Phoenix Res has the the worst goal difference (-4) at home
- Wellington Phoenix Res have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Wellington Phoenix Res have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Wellington Phoenix Res have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Wellington Phoenix Res have yet to win a game at home.
- Wellington Phoenix Res 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 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 18 |
| 2 | Team Wellington | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 15 |
| 3 | Hawke's Bay United | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 | Eastern Suburbs | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 10 |
| 5 | Waitakere United | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 9 |
| 6 | Canterbury United | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 9 |
| 7 | Hamilton Wanderers | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 11 | -10 | 9 |
| 8 | Southern United | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -4 | 8 |
| 9 | Wellington Phoenix Res | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 10 | -4 | 7 |
| 10 | Tasman United | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 6 | -4 | 7 |