WPW R11 vs Adelaide United | Sun 12th Jan | 7:30pm | Sky Sports 4

Adelaide United squad: 1.Annalee GROVE, 2.Emily HODGSON, 4.Matilda MCNAMARA, 5.Sarah MORGAN, 6.Tiarna KARAMBASIS, 8.Emily CONDON, 10.Chelsie DAWBER,13.Ella TONKIN, 14.Lucía LEÓN, 17.Zoe TOLLAND, 18.Lara KIRKBY, 19.Katie BOWLER, 21.Claudia JENKINS, 22.Erin HEALY, 23.Fiona WORTS, 24.Abby MIDDLETON, 27.Sian DEWEY, 28.Chrissy PANAGARIS

(Two to be omitted)

Ins: 6.Tiarna KARAMBASIS, 24.Abby MIDDLETON

Outs: 3.Meleri MULLAN, 12.Nanako SASAKI

Unavailable: 11.Isabel HODGSON (foot), 16.Dylan HOLMES (hip)

Wellington Phoenix squad: 2. Zoe MCMEEKEN, 3. Tiana JABER, 4. Mackenzie BARRY, 5. Alivia KELLY, 6. Maya MCCUTCHEON, 7. Grace JALE, 9. Olivia FERGUSSON, 10. Alyssa WHINHAM, 11. Manaia ELLIOTT, 12. Ella MCMILLAN, 14. Mebae TANAKA, 15. Daisy BRAZENDALE, 16. Annalie LONGO (c), 19. Liv INGHAM, 20. Emma MAIN, 21. Lara WALL, 22. Aimee DANIELI (gk), 39. Carolina VILÃO (gk)

(Two to be omitted)

Ins: Nil

Outs: Nil

Unavailable: 8. Amelia ABBOTT (injured), 18. Ella MCCANN (injured), 23. Rebecca LAKE (injured).

Abbott must've really done herself a mischief in training, perhaps she'll make a home debut on the 19th?

That aside, this is going to be an exciting one!

Quick turn around. Wonder if we will see a bit of rotation. With the likes of Main Elliot and Brazendale getting starts.

Really fired up for today, especially after watching AFC lose overnight.

We're on exactly the same points as Adelaide. Be good to win to hold onto 4th spot.  Let's go girls!!! 

🔥🔥Let's hope the Women can get revenge on Adelaide for the men's result yesterday🔥🔥

TONIGHTS STARTING XI 🟡⚫️#COYN pic.twitter.com/HmJTrMbuNY

— Wellington Phoenix 🔥 (@WgtnPhoenixFC) January 12, 2025

2 changes:

Elliot in for Whinham
Brazendale for Tanaka

COYN! 

Ferguson has to get on the end of that ball from Wall!

We've been under the pump for the last little bit

poop

So annoying.

We have given them too many chances the last 10 minutes or so. we had being playing very positively up until recently

I was about to say how blunt Adelaides attack is,and they get a soft one

Oh dear!
We have not been great generally,but my goodness we have given them those 2 goals

And now down 2-0 all of a sudden

Why the fudge did Barry attempt that turn, silly stuff

Maybe the heat is tiring us out more than Adelaide who are likely more used to it.

Maybe the break at half time will give a chance to get the energy back

Anyone want to bet on whether Ferguson gets a touch this half?
Maybe Whinham can find her 

Nix get a goal back! Own Goal helping us for once

Fenix

Oh dear!
We have not been great generally,but my goodness we have given them those 2 goals

Learning bad habits off the men it seems. 😮‍💨

Be really good if we could grab a point here. 

We couldn't score in a month of Sundays.

Well that was frustrating.

Thought we started strong. But ran out of puff early on. Pretty tough in 30+ with only a 3 day turn around. 
On to the next.

Procrastinixing

Well that was frustrating.

So much that I think was wrong,but let's look at Elliott. 

She's been asked to go all over the place in the last few games - came on a right back,then last week came on and swapped sides after ten minutes,and this week played on the right in midfield, then was dragged early.
In my book she's a left midfielder, but that's the one position we haven't seen her lately??? Jale is NOT a left midfielder, why do we see her out there the whole time?

Ranix

Thought we started strong. But ran out of puff early on. Pretty tough in 30+ with only a 3 day turn around. 
On to the next.

Watching the highlights I could almost feel the 34-degree heat. Hopefully the stadium wasn’t as deserted as it looked, and the crowd were under cover on the same side as the camera.

O. Goal for golden boot!
Seriously though, we made enough chances to get at least a point.

Very short turn around and brutal heat.  I'm not overly surprised by the result.  We looked really good at the start and it just looked like we got gassed.