Newcastle Jets vs Wellington Phoenix 0-3

Wellington Phoenix left Newcastle Jets with a 3-0 win after C. Piper opened the scoring in the 14th minute and late goals from R. Bidois and N. Walker finished it. Wellington took the points despite Newcastle having most of the ball.

Piper struck in the 14th minute from K. Nagasawa’s assist to make it 1-0, and that stayed the score at half-time. Newcastle had already been forced into changes by then, with two substitutions made on 46 minutes, but they went into the break a goal down.

Newcastle made three more changes on 58 minutes, while Wellington also changed once at the same time, and the visitors then waited until the closing stages to extend the lead. Bidois, who came on in the 85th minute, scored on 87 minutes from another Nagasawa assist to make it 2-0, and Walker, who had come on in the 58th minute, added the third three minutes into stoppage time from Nagasawa’s third assist of the night.

Newcastle had 78% of possession and 652 passes to Wellington’s 178, with 85% pass accuracy against 56%. They also had 8 corners to Wellington’s 2 and committed 8 fouls to 10, while offsides finished 0-1.

A. Rufer was booked for Wellington in the 76th minute.