When? Saturday 21 November, 2 pm kick off

Where? Porritt Stadium, Hamilton

What happened last time the two sides met? Last season Auckland City FC walked away with two wins from two encounters, demolishing Wanderers 5-0 at Cambridge’s John Kerkhof Park. Their Kiwitea Street meeting was a little closer, with the Aucklanders taking out a 3-1 win.

What they say

Jose Figueira, Auckland City FC head coach
“Another tough challenge coming up. Any away game is, is difficult, and Hamilton Wanderers had a fantastic result on the weekend and a really strong performance. Having watched the games and having only met them recently in pre-season a couple of weeks back where they got the up on us, no doubt they will be feeling confident that they can maintain a good start to the season.

“Traditionally they've always been a team that is really dangerous on the transition, with the likes of Derek [Tieku] and Tommy [Semmy] up front. I think this year, like that game in pre-season, and watching them last week with a couple of new additions and with this being a second year for Kale [Herbert], they're looking really well-organized there. And they’re not only a counter-attacking team, they're able to play through the lines as well - they're certainly a team that's evolving nicely. So we've got to be right at the top of our game if we want to carry on our own start to the season.”

Squads as at Friday 20 November

1 Matthew OLIVER GK 3 Adam DAVIDSON 4 Joseph HARRIS 5 Brock MESSENGER 6 Agustin Nicholas CONTRATTI 7 Mark JONES 8 Bradley WHITWORTH ENG 13 Tommy SEMMY 17 Xavier PRATT 19 Joshua SIGNEY 20 Derek TIEKU (C) 23 Cory TOWNSEND (GK) 9 Jordan LAMB 12 Dylan MORRIS 16 John CLOUT 18 Owen COMBER

Auckland City FC

24 Cameron BROWN (GK) 2 Mario ILICH 3 Adam MITCHELL 6 Brian KALTACK 7 Cameron HOWIESON C 8 Albert RIERA 10 Dylan MANICKUM 11 Tom DOYLE 14 Jordan VALE 21 Maro BONSU-MARO 23 Alfie ROGERS 18 Conor TRACEY GK 12 Abdulbaset KHALIFA 13 Deandre VOLLENHOVEN 17 Andrew BLAKE 22 Mohamed AWAD

Officials

Referee: Luke GARDNER Assistant referee 1: Robbie MARIS Assistant referee 2: Jared LAMBERTH 4th official: Andrew LAMBERTH

Article added: Saturday 21 November 2020