In this week 7 match on Dec 10th, Wellington Phoenix and Western Sydney Wanderers will play a match in Wellington in a clash of these two mismatched A-League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 20 degrees, a perfect day for football. Wellington Phoenix sits at 8th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 2-3 loss against Western United. Oskar Zawada scored the first goal for Wellington Phoenix in the 22nd minute, then Bozhidar Kraev added another in the 59th minute But luckily in the 95th minute, they were able to complete the comback with a goal by Alessandro Diamanti. Wellington Phoenix looks to improve on their recent performance, having lost 2 of their last 10, while in their last match, Western Sydney Wanderers recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Sydney. Kusini Yengi struck first for Western Sydney Wanderers in the 70th minute on a feed from Miloš Ninković, and with that single goal the scoring was complete. Neither team could manage anything else In the end, Sydney was frustrated by Western Sydney Wanderers’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Western Sydney Wanderers ended the match with the shutout victory. With 17 points in their last 10 matches Western Sydney Wanderers should be reasonably happy with their performance.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season, so it will be interesting how the match turns out. Last season Wellington Phoenix won the head to head battle with 2 wins and 1 losss.
Tomislav Mrčela and Sulejman Krpić are the top scorers for Western Sydney Wanderers in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.. Wellington Phoenix’s top weapon lately has been Bozhidar Kraev, who has 3 goals in the last five matches.