📊 Form Guide

Wellington Phoenix

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Wellington Phoenix will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 1-2 A-League victory over Newcastle United Jets.

In that match, Wellington Phoenix had 33% possession and 15 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. For Wellington Phoenix, the goals were scored by Kosta Barbarouses (34'), Kazuki Nagasawa (41') and Josh Oluwayemi (65' Own goal). For their opponents, Newcastle United Jets had 25 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target.

Wellington Phoenix have not been the best at stopping their opponents lately, although they’ve also done enough to score goals themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Wellington Phoenix have conceded in 6 of them while also getting on the scoresheet in 5 of those games. Let’s find out whether or not that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

Coming into this meeting, Wellington Phoenix are without a win at home for the past 6 matches in the league. Things will have to change soon.

Melbourne Victory

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Melbourne Victory will go into this encounter after a 5-3 A-League win with the eclipse of Adelaide United in their last match.

In that game, Melbourne Victory managed 57% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. For Melbourne Victory, the goalscorers were Daniel Arzani (29', 71'), Nishan Velupillay (39') and Nikos Vergos (88', 90'). For their opponents, Adelaide United had 11 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Jonny Yull (12'), Archie Goodwin (47') and Zach Clough (56') scored for Adelaide United.

Over the course of their previous half-dozen clashes, Melbourne Victory have bagged the sum of 14 goals. Melbourne Victory have also managed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, they have had 10 goals go into their own net.

Their previous form shows that Melbourne Victory:

• have not beaten Wellington Phoenix in away games against them for the last 3 matches in the league.
• are without a win away from home in their last 3 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Checking out their prior head to head duels stretching back to 19/01/2024, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Wellington Phoenix winning 2 of those games, Melbourne Victory 2 and 2 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

8 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 4 for The Nix and 4 belonging to Victory. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.33.

The previous league encounter between the two was A-League match day 19 on 14/02/2025 when the final score was Melbourne Victory 1-0 Wellington Phoenix.

In that match, Melbourne Victory had 57% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player to score was Nikos Vergos (57').

Wellington Phoenix got 4 shots at goal with 1 on target.

The match was refereed by Adam Bavcar.

📰 Team News: Wellington Phoenix

Chico Geraldes (Meniscus tear), Alby Kelly-Heald (Broken shoulder) and Stefan Colakovski (Cruciate ligament tear) will not be taking part for Wellington Phoenix boss Giancarlo Italiano.

📋 Team News: Melbourne Victory

Thanks to a largely available group of players, there is only the sole fitness problem for the Melbourne Victory boss Arthur Diles to be concerned with. Clarismario (unknown injury) won’t be playing here.

💭 Prediction

Our thinking is that Wellington Phoenix have the firepower to find the net against this Melbourne Victory side, but a single goal likely won’t be enough to prevent defeat.

Therefore, we think that it’s going to be both teams to score in a 1-2 win for Melbourne Victory by the conclusion of the game. Should be a good one.

Lucas Pereira, 04:05 12/04/2025