Wellington Phoenix

Kosta Barbarouses and Ben Waine both found the back of the net as the Phoenix eliminated Melbourne City for the second year running.

New signing Yan Sasse was a surprise inclusion on the Phoenix bench after only arriving in Australia last week ahead of his unveiling. A beautiful mind crunching all the player stats. If quality local sport journalism is important to you, become a Stuff supporter today. You need journalists close enough to smell the liniment. After being unleashed down the left by Waine, Kraev had two pops at the City goal. *