| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Suburbs W | 15 | L1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5/15 | 3-9 |
| NW United W | 15 | L4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 3/15 | 2-13 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 3 finished meetings (2025-05-04 – 2026-05-24) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-24 | NW United W | 0-4 | Nelson Suburbs W |
| 2025-08-03 | NW United W | 0-3 | Nelson Suburbs W |
| 2025-05-04 | Nelson Suburbs W | 2-3 | NW United W |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Suburbs W | 7 | 14 | 11 | -17 | DLLDL | 24 | -17 |
| NW United W | 8 | 14 | 7 | -43 | LWLLL | 20 | -12 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2026-08-01
Nelson Suburbs W went into the game 7th in the table on 11 points; NW United W sat 8th on 7 — a 4-point gap. Nelson Suburbs W ranked just 24th in the league on five-round form despite their 7th table position. Per game in the league, Nelson Suburbs W were scoring 0.79 and conceding 2, NW United W 0.64 and 3.71, against a competition average of 2.15 goals per team per game.
Four consecutive defeats weighed on NW United W.
