Round 18 Preview –Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix
Overall – 20 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 5, Phoenix Wins – 12, Draws – 3
In Newcastle – 8 games
Jets Wins – 3, Phoenix Wins – 4, Draws – 1
Last Result -
Jets 0 – Phoenix 0 at McLean Park, Round 3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiTRJAAbSoo
Biggest Win
Jets 3 (Hoffman 12, Hoffman 20, Naidovski 84) – Phoenix 2 (Sigmund 26, Greenacre 43), Round 1, Season 5 at Energy Australia Stadium, 9/08/2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah3B_BooasE
Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – Phoenix 4 (Brown 18, Rojas 31, Greenacre 41, Macallister 88), Round 19, Season 6 at Wellington, 18/12/2010.
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets – 2 (Jason Hoffman, Matt Thompson)
Phoenix – 6 (Shane Smeltz – including 3 penalties)
Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Newcastle Jets Coaching Records –
Gary Van Egmond – 4 matches (3 wins, 3 draw and 6 losses = 25% win ratio)
Craig Deans – 1 match (0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
Branko Culina – 7 matches (2 wins, 0 draws, 5 losses = 29% win ratio)
Average Home crowd – 10425
Key facts:
- The Jets have only ever received 1 penalty in 20 meetings. This was in Season 3 and was scored by Mark Bridge (30/12/2007). The Jets have since gone 17 matches without a penalty in this fixture. This was awarded by Strebre Delovski
- The Phoenix, however, have received 5 penalties since this time. They have converted 4 of them - Chris Greenacre being the only player to miss his shot.
- In the first meeting between these two clubs in Season 3, Round 3, Matt Thompson scored the 500th goal in A-League History.
- The Phoenix have scored an average of 1.9 goals against the Jets in all matches. The Jets have scored an average of 0.85 goals. This goes up to an average of 1.25 at home.
- The Jets have only ever kept 3 clean sheets against the Phoenix, while the Jets have been kept scoreless 10 times.
- In the last 2 home games, and 3 of their last 4, against the Phoenix the Jets have been kept scoreless. Marko Jesic was the last player in this fixture to score for the Jets at home.
- This is the first visit of the Phoenix to Newcastle in just over 14 months. The last meeting was a disappointing 3-0 loss to the Jets where former player Jeremy Brockie scored 2 goals.
- Vince Lia is the most booked Phoenix player in the match, having been booked 5 times against the Jets in the past. Manny Muscat has been booked 4 times.
- 4 Jets players have been sent off in the fixture – Joel Griffiths, Mark Milligan, Ryan Griffiths and Sam Gallaway. Sam Gallaway is the only player to receive a red for a second bookable offence. Gallaway is also the only player of these 4 to have been booked during a Phoenix game.
- The Phoenix have had 3 players dismissed – Nick Ward, Tim Brown and Tony Lochhead. These were all second bookable offences.
- Glen Moss has kept 3 clean sheets in 13 appearances against the Jets, 2 of these as the Phoenix keeper. He hasn’t kept a clean sheet against the Jets at Hunter Stadium, letting in an average of 2 goals.
- An Ernie Merrick coached side has only ever won twice in 9 visits to Hunter Stadium.
- The Jets have only played on February 9th once. This was a 2-1 defeat to Western Sydney Wanderers last year.
The referee details will be added on Friday