Wellington Phoenix vs Newcastle United Jets Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Wellington Phoenix

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Wellington Phoenix will be looking to improve on their last outing here following the 4-0 A-League losing effort in their last game against Adelaide United.

In that game, Wellington Phoenix had 46% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For their opponents, Adelaide United had 23 shots on goal with 11 on target. George Blackwood (7'), Craig Goodwin (54', 69') and Javi López (80') scored for Adelaide United.

It’s been seldom in recent times that Wellington Phoenix have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Wellington Phoenix have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 clashes, shipping 14 goals during that time.

Newcastle United Jets

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Macarthur FC in A-League competition, Newcastle United Jets and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Newcastle United Jets managed 75% possession and 21 shots on goal with 8 on target. The only player to score for Newcastle United Jets was Beka Mikeltadze (35'). For their opponents, Macarthur FC got 7 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Daniel De Silva (48') and James Meredith (84') scored for Macarthur FC.

Showing their predisposition for fruitful matches, goals have been celebrated 21 times in the last six games in which Newcastle United Jets have sent out their troops, making it an average of 3.5 goals for each clash. Opposition teams have got 9 of these goals. Let’s find out whether or not that trend can be sustained here.

🤜🤛 Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings dating back to 30/03/2019, there is nothing to separate the two clubs with Wellington Phoenix winning 3 of those games, Newcastle United Jets 3 and 0 being draws in normal time.

In all, 20 goals were shared by the two clubs in this period, with 9 of them from The Nix and 11 coming from The Jets. That is an average goals per game value of 3.33.

The last league contest featuring the two was A-League match day 4 on 10/12/2021 when the final score was Newcastle United Jets 4-0 Wellington Phoenix.

In that match, Newcastle United Jets had 60% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 9 on target. The goalscorers were Beka Mikeltadze (32', 52'), Dylan Murnane (69') and Daniel Penha (80').

Wellington Phoenix had 11 shots at goal with 4 on target.

The referee was Lachlan Keevers.

📰 Team News: Wellington Phoenix

Almost everyone can be considered, as there’s just the lone fitness concern for the Wellington Phoenix manager Ufuk Talay to be concerned with from of an almost fully healthy group of players. Oliver Sail (Hip Injury) is out of contention.

ℹ️ Team News: Newcastle United Jets

Due to a fully injury-free squad available for selection, the Newcastle United Jets boss Arthur Papas does not have any fitness concerns to report ahead of this match.

🧠 Prediction

It seems to us that Newcastle United Jets and Wellington Phoenix could well end up finding themselves level here, with both teams capable of netting.

A draw looks like a realistic possibility, but we’ll see what happens. We therefore see a score draw after 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 00:25 04/01/2022