The Wellington Phoenix are desperate to land a high-profile scalp when they confront Wrexham in the Capital on Saturday. 

The Nix are keen to bury last year's disappointing 11th place in the A-League. 

Crowds are expected to comfortably surpass 20 thousand. 

Phoenix General Manager David Dome told Heather du Plessis-Allan that Sydney beat them 2-1 last weekend, and he knows for a fact that their academy is better than Sydney’s. 

He says they’ll put out a very good team on the ground, and they definitely have it in them to beat the Welsh club. 

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