{"id":101765,"date":"2025-10-26T09:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101765\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:33:09","slug":"wellington-phoenix-score-injury-time-winner-lose-defender-tim-payne-to-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101765\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington Phoenix score injury-time winner, lose defender Tim Payne to shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe Phoenix celebrate their win over the Roar. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

The impact of Corban Piper off the bench will be a huge positive for coach Giancarlo Italiano, with the defender assisting both goals.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had backs to the wall and Corban came on, brought great energy and nice belief,\u201d Italiano said.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally happy for Carlo, to be fair. It\u2019s very hard for him to get into the game, but I felt every time we went down his side, it was really dangerous.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone was very good today.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the result has come at a huge loss after Payne left the field in the 17th minute when he fell awkwardly on his left shoulder attempting to tackle a defender.<\/p>\n

Payne was pictured with his left arm in a sling as he walked down the tunnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s probably broken his collarbone,\u201d said Italiano. \u201cI don\u2019t know the exact terms but I think best case scenario is six weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The win will give the Phoenix plenty of confidence, considering they won just once in Wellington last season, while it lifts them to second on the standings. They could be overtaken by Adelaide United if they beat Macarthur later on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Auckland FC are third after their 1-0 win over the Western Sydney Wanderers<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix celebrate their win over the Roar. Photo \/ Photosport The impact of Corban Piper off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74317,74316,9689,74315,57534,5907,26848,42,15258,74313,5268,43,74314,1523,62589,57694,74318,22257,22312,60971,12825,46001,61,40,38,41,39,52,10508],"class_list":["post-101765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-96thminute","tag-armiento","tag-brisbane","tag-carlo","tag-comefrombehind","tag-completed","tag-defender","tag-headlines","tag-injury","tag-injurytime","tag-lose","tag-news","tag-newsigning","tag-over","tag-payne","tag-phoenix","tag-roar","tag-score","tag-scored","tag-shoulder","tag-stunning","tag-tim","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}