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Phoenix romp home in Wellington homecoming – The World Game
Wellington Phoenix’s homecoming got the fairytale result the script demanded on Saturday when a record crowd of 24,105 fuelled the A-League’s road warriors to a…
Hometown hero Clayton Lewis fired the Nix ahead in the first half, before Reno Piscopo and Tomer Hemed iced the cake after the break.
The victory was just the tonic for Wellington’s late-blooming season, extending an unbeaten run to eight that could see them crash the top six and play finals for the third-straight season.
But the occasion felt bigger than the match or the result, as showed by the bumper turnout at Sky Stadium.
Wellington’s biggest ever regular-season crowd welcomed the team home…
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