{"id":294814,"date":"2026-02-21T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294814\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:35:09","slug":"live-wellington-phoenix-v-auckland-fc-a-league-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294814\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: Wellington Phoenix v Auckland FC &#8211; A-League derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JSUOPS_260221WgtnAKLFC_016_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Auckland FC players celebrate a goal, A-League, Wellington Phoenix v Auckland FC, Sky Stadium, Wellington. Saturday 21 February, 2026\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nAuckland FC celebrate a goal against Wellington Phoenix.<br \/>\nPhoto: Kerry Marshall\/Photosport\n<\/p>\n<p>Auckland FC have destroyed Wellington Phoenix 5-0 in their A-League derby clash in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Wellington&#8217;s chances of their first-ever win against their northern rivals hit a sour note early with a bizarre goalkeeping error in the 24th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Goalie Josh Oluwayemi was caught out of position under a long clearance kick from a rival defender. Unable to stop the ball, he brushed it into his own net.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix equalled their worst-ever loss at home.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the live action here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auckland FC celebrate a goal against Wellington Phoenix. Photo: Kerry Marshall\/Photosport Auckland FC have destroyed Wellington Phoenix 5-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-294814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294814","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=294814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}