Rd 12 Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets 27/12/14 k/off 7:30pm AEDST

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2014/15 A-League Round 12 Preview – Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets
Overall – 28 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 12, Victory Wins – 9, Drawn – 7


In Melbourne – 14 games
Jets Wins – 5, Victory Wins – 7, Drawn – 2

Average Home A-League crowd – 18106

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 40, Victory – 40

Cards in Fixture
Jets – 51 (47 Yellow, 4 Red), Victory – 45 (42 Yellow, 3 Red)

Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets – WLLDD
Victory – LDWWW

Leading Scorers
Jets – Joel Griffiths 3, Victory – Besart Berisha, Archie Thompson - 6

Last Result -
Jets 2 (Jaliens 31', Griffiths 33' pen) – Victory 2 (Ben Kalfallah 36', Berisha 48') at Hunter Stadium, A-League Season 10, Round 5, 08/11/2014 .


FIXTURE RECORDS


Biggest Win

Jets 4 (Bridge 36’, Bridge 48’, Coveny 51’, J Griffiths 73’) – Victory 0 at Hunter Stadium, Round 21, Season 2, 19/01/2007.

Heaviest Defeat

Jets 0 – Victory 5 (Hernandez 41’, Thompson 45’, Allsopp 61’, Allsopp 64’, Brebner 90’), Round 3, Season 4 at AAMI Park, 29/08/2008.
Jets 0 – 5 (Rojas 8’, Leijer 15’, Milligan 30’ pen, Milligan 55’ pen, Rojas 66’), Round 23, Season 8, 03/03/2013

Leading Scorers in fixture –

Jets – 5 Joel Griffiths
Victory – 7 Archie Thompson


2014/15 SEASON STATISTICS

Appearances

•11 David Carney, Joel Griffiths, Edson Montano
•10 Kew Jaliens, Andrew Hoole, Jeronimo Neumann
•8 Sam Gallagher, Zenon Caravella, Jacob Pepper, Scott Neville
•6 Mark Birrighiti, Marco Flores, Allan Wesh, Sam Gallaway, Ben Kantarovski, Adrian Madaschi, James Virgili
•5 Taylor Regan, Ben Kennedy
•4 Billy Celeski,
•2 Jonny Steele
•1 Nicholas Cowburn


Goals

•3 Joel Griffiths
•2 Edson Montano, Jeronimo Neumann,
•1 Kew Jaliens, Marco Flores, Scott Neville


Assists

•3 David Carney
•1 Joel Griffiths, Scott Neville, Jacob Pepper, Taylor Regan, Andrew Hoole, Adrian Madaschi


Yellow Cards

•3 Taylor Regan, Kew Jaliens, Jeronimo Neumann
•2 Jacob Pepper, Marcos Flores, Edson Montano, Adrian Madaschi, Andrew Hoole,
•1 Jonny Steele, David Carney, Allan Welsh, Ben Kantarovski, Sam Gallaway, Scott Neville, James Virgili


Red Cards

•1 Kew Jaliens

COACHING

Coaches Head to Head – 1 match
Phil Stubbins - 0 wins, Kevin Muscat - 0 wins, 1 drawn,

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –

•Phil Stubbins - 1 Matches (0 wins, 1 drawn, 0 loss = 0% win ratio)
•Gary Van Egmond – 16 matches (10 wins, 2 drawn and 4 losses = 19% win ratio)
•Richard Money – 3 matches (1 win, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 33% win ratio)
•Branko Culina – 6 matches (1 wins, 2 drawn, 3 losses = 17% win ratio)
•Nick Theodorakopoulos – 1 match (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
•Clayton Zane – 1 match (0 wins, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
•Craig Deans - 0 matches (0 win, 0 drawn, 0 loss = -% win ratio)


Melbourne Victory Coach Record – Kevin Muscat 20% win ratio (1 win, 3 drawn, 1 loss)

KEY FACTS:

•The Jets haven’t kept a clean sheet in the last 11 matches against Melbourne Victory.
•At least one player has scored a double in the last 5 fixtures against the Victory in Melbourne.
•The Jets haven't kept a clean sheet in the last 10 matches in Melbourne. The last was Season 3, Round 10.
•Only 4 opposition players have received yellow cards this year. The Jets are now on 26 yellows and 1 straight red.
•If they play this weekend, Ben Kantarovski will become the 7th highest capped Jets player with 93 appearances, surpassing Labinot Haliti. Ben Kennedy will equal Ruben Zadkovich's 97 appearances, moving the equal 5th while Joel Griffiths will make his 80th appearance, equalling Jade North
•The Jets are currently on an 11 game streak without a clean sheet.
•The Jets have won on the 3 occasions they have lead at half time. However, they've only managed to salvage 1 point from the 6 times they've trailed at half time.
•It's now 29 matches in a row where the Jets have failed to score in the first 15 minutes.
•Ben Kennedy has conceded 8 goals in 6 appearances in Melbourne. He has one clean sheet which was in his first appearance in Melbourne back in Season 3.


•In the last 7 seasons, the Jets are the only team to have scored more than 3 goals in one match in this fixture. .
•The Jets have never salvaged a point against Adelaide when trailing at half time.
•If the Jets fail to win this weekend, it will equal the longest winless streak in the clubs history.
•The Jets have won their last two matches against Adelaide at home on a Friday night. Both matches saw the Jets keep a clean sheet with Ben Kennedy between the sticks.
•Newcastle’s last 10 Friday night matches record is (W-D-L) 2-2-6.
•The Jets haven’t scored on a Friday night so far this season.
•In the last 10 meetings, Adelaide have only scored two first half goals.
•The final meeting last year was Michael Bridges retirement match.
•This season the Jets have conceded 11 goals in the last 20 minutes (70 minutes+) and 10 in the 70 minutes prior to that.
•Ben Kantarovski will equal the number of appearances for the Jets as Labinot Haliti if he plays this weekend with 92.
•Nigel Boogaard is the player who has received the most bookings in this fixture with 6 (4 yellows and 2 red).
•The current Adelaide player who has scored the most A-League goals against the Jets is Bruce Djite with 4.



Jets v Victory Trivia:
1. Who are the 5 players to have scored doubles in the last 5 fixtures in Melbourne?

2. Which Jets player has provided the most assists against the Victory (toughie!)?

3. Who has scored the fastest goal in this fixture?
....Stats by JP...


The league table between these teams doesnt look good but now we have that win out of the way we can relax.

nightmare