{"id":301509,"date":"2025-11-22T13:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301509\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T13:16:08","slug":"wellington-phoenix-0-1-macarthur-bulls-a-league-round-5-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301509\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Phoenix 0-1 Macarthur Bulls: A-League Round 5 highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"952\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2247875737-e1763791467467.jpg\" class=\"attachment-xlarge_img_16_9 size-xlarge_img_16_9 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-attachment-id=\"338165\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/news\/wellington-phoenix-macarthur-bulls-sawyer-round-5-goals-match-report-highlights-a-league-news\/a-league-men-rd-5-wellington-phoenix-v-macarthur-fc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2247875737-e1763791467467.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,577\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Getty Images&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-1M2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - NOVEMBER 22: Macarthur FC celebrate the goal of Harry Sawyer during the round five A-League Men match between Wellington Phoenix and Macarthur FC at Sky Stadium, on November 22, 2025, in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins\\\/Getty Images)&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1763836843&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;2025 Getty Images&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A-League Men Rd 5 - Wellington Phoenix v Macarthur FC&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A-League Men Rd 5 \u2013 Wellington Phoenix v Macarthur FC\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND \u2013 NOVEMBER 22: Macarthur FC celebrate the goal of Harry Sawyer during the round five A-League Men match between Wellington Phoenix and Macarthur FC at Sky Stadium, on November 22, 2025, in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins\/Getty Images)&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2247875737-e1763791467467.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2247875737-e1763791467467.jpg?w=1024\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Macarthur Bulls substitute Harry Sawyer was the hero on Saturday after coming off the bench to sink Wellington Phoenix 1-0 in the Isuzu UTE A-League.<\/p>\n<p>With the Round 5 fixture petering out for a draw at Sky Stadium, Bulls head coach Mile Sterjovski turned to Sawyer with 14 minutes of regulation remaining in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Sawyer stepped up and made himself a super-sub seven minutes later after squeezing the ball underneath Phoenix goalkeeper Josh Oluwayemi.<\/p>\n<p>It was Macarthur\u2019s first away goal of the 2025-26 campaign as the Bulls striker celebrated his second goal of the season after Phoenix defender Isaac Hughes saw his glancing header flash inches wide of the post moments earlier.<\/p>\n<p>As for Wellington, whose wait for a clean sheet stretched to 17 matches, they registered their first shot on target in stoppage time \u2013 Carlo Armiento\u2019s thunderous long-range effort sensationally kept out by Filip Kurto.<\/p>\n<p>Match highlights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macarthur Bulls substitute Harry Sawyer was the hero on Saturday after coming off the bench to sink Wellington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[20417,20418,20419,172288,64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-301509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-a-league-men","tag-a-leagues","tag-almfeatured","tag-almmatchreport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}