Match Preview

The A-League’s bottom club hosts the side sitting third from bottom in our free Wellington Phoenix vs Perth Glory preview this week. Although both teams have had to endure a season of struggle, they are both still in with a chance of making the cut for the play-offs, mathematically at least. However, both will need to improve massively on their form this season to date if they are to have any hope.

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Wellington Phoenix were beaten in their last two league outings, losing 0-1 at home to Adelaide and 0-4 at Sydney. Before that, however, they had gone three unbeaten, adding a point against Western Sydney to their victories over Melbourne Victory and Newcastle Jets. Those results have helped them to close the gap on the teams above them and the confidence gained from those displays is a factor to consider in our Wellington Phoenix vs Perth Glory betting tips later on.

Perth Glory are the worst team in the A-League on current form and manager Kenny Lowe is struggling badly in his search for ideas on how to redress his side’s slump. PGFC have lost six of their last seven matches, conceding a whopping nineteen goals along the way. Their dismal start to the New Year means that they now have the worst defensive record in the league ahead of their opponents this weekend.

Wellington Phoenix vs Perth Glory Prediction and Betting Advice

The away side in this week’s Wellington Phoenix vs Perth Glory bets actually won the last time these teams took to the field to do battle. However, that narrow 1-0 win was secured at the Nib Stadium and the result between the sides the last time they played in New Zealand makes for much more interesting reading.

The Nix have only won three A-League fixtures this season, but they reserved their best performance and biggest win for their last game against Kenny Lowe’s team at the Westpac Arena. That day a late brace from Andrija Kaluderovic helped to crown a 5-2 triumph for the Kiwis in a display that had the home fans bouncing in the aisles.

That was the second visit to New Zealand in succession that Perth failed to win – they drew 3-3 there in their trip prior to their 5-2 bashing. This weekend Kenny Lowe brings a squad shorn of self-belief to Wellington and I expect them to come undone again. Unibet’s A-League football betting odds are the most lucrative option around for punters looking to back our first pick. You won’t find better value anywhere else.

As we hinted at earlier in our preview, the away side featured in today’s Wellington Phoenix vs Perth Glory predictions have been leaking goals all over the place of late. The nineteen they conceded in their last six fixtures brought their total to thirty-nine so far in 2017/18. In total, their A-League matches have averaged 3.2 goals per game during this campaign.

Remarkably, the home team’s average goal per game figures are just about identical, though they have played one game less. Their eighteen matches to date have averaged 3.22 goals per ninety minutes. In nine games at the Westpac Arena, an average of three goals per contest have flown in.

In three of the last four meetings between these rivals, over 2.5 goals were scored. In fact, seventeen goals were registered over those goal-laden clashes, which works out at an average of over four per game. Furthermore, 100% of Glory’s last four fixtures finished over our same targeted number of goals. With goalmouth action set to be plentiful again this weekend, you can back the final entry in today’s Australian soccer predictions using the fantastic odds we found at 888Sport.com.