| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taradale W | 15 | L3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3/15 | 5-30 |
| Palmerston North United W | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7/15 | 5-6 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2025-04-25 – 2025-07-19) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-19 | Taradale W | 4-0 | Palmerston North United W |
| 2025-04-25 | Palmerston North United W | 1-2 | Taradale W |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taradale W | 10 | 10 | 3 | -41 | LLLLL | 25 | -15 |
| Palmerston North United W | 5 | 17 | 26 | -5 | DWLLL | 17 | -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 2026-05-24
Palmerston North United W, 5th with 26 points, sat 23 points above Taradale W (10th, 3). Taradale W's recent output lagged their position: 25th on form over five rounds while 10th in the table. Against a league average of 2.15 goals per team per game, Taradale W ran at 1.4 scored and 5.5 conceded, Palmerston North United W at 1.59 and 1.88.
Taradale W arrived off three straight defeats.
