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Wellington Phoenix meet visiting opponents Central Coast Mariners at Sky Stadium in the A-League match on Saturday.
Scroll down to see all of the predictions, poll and statistics for Wellington Phoenix v Central Coast Mariners (including the best match odds).
📊 Form Guide

Wellington Phoenix
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Wellington Phoenix are hoping to win again after their last result, the 1-2 A-League victory vs Macarthur FC.
In that match, Wellington Phoenix had 43% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. For Wellington Phoenix, goals were scored by Kazuki Nagasawa (65') and Kosta Barbarouses (71'). At the other end, Macarthur FC got 30 attempts at goal with 9 on target. Jake Hollman (16') scored for Macarthur FC.
It has been all too rare in recent times where Wellington Phoenix have kept a clean sheet. The reality is that Wellington Phoenix have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 10 goals during that time. Such a trend won’t necessarily follow through into this next game, of course.
Coming into this fixture, Wellington Phoenix are without a win at home for the past 2 matches in the league.
Central Coast Mariners
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Central Coast Mariners head into the match following a 1-3 A-League win with the downing of Western Sydney Wanderers in their last fixture.
In that game, Central Coast Mariners managed 51% possession and 17 shots on goal with 8 of them on target. For Central Coast Mariners, goals were scored by Alou Kuol (14'), Ryan Edmondson (69') and Mikael Doka (94'). Western Sydney Wanderers had 14 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. James Temelkovski (85') scored for Western Sydney Wanderers.
Illustrating their predisposition for high-scoring matches, goals have been seen as many as 22 times in the previous six games in which Central Coast Mariners have taken to the pitch, yielding a mean average of 3.67 goals for each fixture. Opposition teams have got 12 of this grand total.
Heading into this fixture, Central Coast Mariners have not beaten Wellington Phoenix when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.
↔️ Head to head
A review of their past head to head clashes dating back to 16/10/2022 shows us that Wellington Phoenix have won 2 of these and Central Coast Mariners 1, with the tally of drawn games being 3.
15 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 9 of them from The Nix and 6 for Mariners. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.5.
The previous league fixture between these sides was A-League match day 4 on 10/11/2024 and the score finished Central Coast Mariners 0-3 Wellington Phoenix.
On that day, Central Coast Mariners managed 53% possession and 21 shots at goal with 10 of them on target.
On the other side, Wellington Phoenix had 8 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. Hideki Ishige (15'), Kosta Barbarouses (38') and Sam Sutton (53') scored.
The referee was Alex King.
🗞️ Team News: Wellington Phoenix
Tim Payne (unknown injury), Alex Rufer (Ill), Gabriel Sloane-Rodrigues (Knock), Marco Rojas (Ankle injury) and Stefan Colakovski (Cruciate ligament tear) are unavailable for Wellington Phoenix gaffer Giancarlo Italiano.
📋 Team News: Central Coast Mariners
Central Coast Mariners manager Mark Jackson has multiple availability issues to deal with. Nicholas Duarte (unknown injury), Miguel Di Pizio (Knee surgery), Lucas Mauragis (unknown injury) and Brad Tapp (Cruciate ligament injury) are those who can’t be considered.
✨ Prediction
In our opinion, Central Coast Mariners and Wellington Phoenix might both not be able to do quite enough to get on the scoresheet here.
A scoreless draw looks like a real possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We’re therefore anticipating a very even match with a 0-0 score at the end of the match.
Victor Martins, 03:06 25/01/2025
📊 Poll: Who Will Win?

⚽️ Team Focus:
Wellington Phoenix
Formed: 2007
Stadium: Sky Stadium (34,500)
Captain: Alex Rufer
Chairman: Robert Morrison
Manager: Giancarlo Italiano
Competitions: A-League position 10
🔑 Key Man: Kosta Barbarouses

Regularly taking up the Right Wing position, Kosta Barbarouses was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Having played his first senior match for Wellington Phoenix in the 2007 - 2008 season, the dangerous Forward has scored a sum of 7 league goals in this A-League 2024 - 2025 season so far coming from a total of 13 appearances.
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13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 28 | LWWWD |
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13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 27 | WDLWD |
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13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 24 | DWWWL |
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14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 24 | WWLWW |
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14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 22 | DDLLW |
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14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 21 | WWLWL |
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15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 21 | WWDLL |
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13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 18 | WLDWL |
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13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | -2 | 17 | WLLDW |
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13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | -7 | 17 | LDWLW |
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12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -7 | 10 | LDWLL |
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14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | -26 | 8 | LLLWL |
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Goals scored | 0.9 |
Goals conceded | 1.1 |
Time first goal scored | 45 |
Time first goal conceded | 50 |
Yellow cards | 0.4 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 3.3 |
Biggest victory | 2-1 |
Biggest defeat | 2-0 |
Goals scored | 1.8 |
Goals conceded | 1.5 |
Time first goal scored | 41 |
Time first goal conceded | 42 |
Yellow cards | 2 |
Red cards | 0 |
Subs used | 4.3 |
Biggest victory | 3-1 |
Biggest defeat | 4-1 |
Kosta Barbarouses | 7 |
Hideki Ishige | 2 |
Kazuki Nagasawa | 1 |
Tim Payne | 1 |
Corban Piper | 1 |
Alou Kuol | 3 |
Ryan Edmondson | 2 |
Mikael Doka | 2 |
Nathan Paull | 2 |
Harrison Steele | 2 |
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