| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waterside Karori W | 15 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10/15 | 16-5 |
| Palmerston North United W | 15 | L1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 10/15 | 13-4 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 3 finished meetings (2025-04-19 – 2026-05-17) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-17 | Palmerston North United W | 2-0 | Waterside Karori W |
| 2025-07-13 | Palmerston North United W | 1-1 | Waterside Karori W |
| 2025-04-19 | Waterside Karori W | 3-0 | Palmerston North United W |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waterside Karori W | 2 | 17 | 40 | 60 | LWWWW | 4 | -2 |
| 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 2026-08-08
The table read 2nd (Waterside Karori W, 40 pts) against 5th (Palmerston North United W, 26 pts), 14 points apart. Palmerston North United W's recent output lagged their position: 17th on form over five rounds while 5th in the table. Per game in the league, Waterside Karori W were scoring 4.53 and conceding 1, Palmerston North United W 1.59 and 1.88, against a competition average of 2.15 goals per team per game.
