2013/14 Round 26 Preview – Newcastle Jets vs Melbourne Victory

 

2013/2014 Hyundai A-League
Season 9 Round 26

Newcastle United Jets FC vs Melbourne Victory FC

When: Saturday 5th April, 2014
Where: Hunter Stadium, 294 Turton Road, New Lambton, NSW
Kickoff: 530pm AEDST (gates open 430pm)
Tickets: https://www.proticket.com.au/Events/Details/2756
Pre-match: from 330pm District Park Tennis Club, Cnr Lambton and Curley Rds Broadmeadow

Watch: LIVE on Foxsports 3 and FoxSports 3HD
Listen: ABC Newcastle 1233 or ABC Grandstand online
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Supporters are reminded that active support has relocated to Bay 60 for the remainder of the season. All existing Bay 2 members should have already been sent their new membership cards. If you have not received this please contact the club on 4979 7611 . Anyone with a membership in another bay who wishes to join Bay 60 for this game also needs to contact the club to organise a temporary ticket for this game. Any other supporters simply need to purchase a ticket for Bay 60 via the above link.

Statistics

Overall – 26 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 12, Victory Wins – 9, Drawn – 5

In Newcastle – 12 games
Jets Wins – 7, Victory Wins – 2, Drawn – 3

Goals in Fixture 
Jets –38, Victory – 38

Cards in Fixture 
Jets – 30 (26 Yellow, 4 Red), Victory – 43 (40 Yellow, 3 Red)

Recent Form 
Jets –LWWLWL,
Victory – LWWLD

Leading Scorers
Jets – Adam Taggart 14, Victory – James Troisi 11

Last Result – 
Jets 1 (Nichols 42’ og) – Victory 1 (Nabbout 49’) at Hunter Stadium, Round 14.

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

Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – Victory 5 (Hernandez 41’, Thompson 45’, Allsopp 61’, 64’ Brebner 90’), Round 3, Season 4 at Energy Australia Stadium, 29/08/2008.

Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets – 4 (Joel Griffiths, Matt Thompson, Labinot Haliti, Ryan Griffiths)
Victory – 7 (Archie Thompson)
Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches

Newcastle Jets Coaching Records
Gary Van Egmond – 16 matches (10 wins, 2 drawn and 4 losses = 62.5% win ratio)
Richard Money – 3 matches (1 wins, 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)

Average Away crowd – 14643

Key facts:
• The Victory has scored against the Jets in the last ten fixtures.
• The Jets haven’t been booked against Melbourne this season.
• The Victory has beaten the Jets 5-0 twice in the A-Leagues history.
• Ryan Griffiths is the only Jets player to have scored a penalty against the Victory. Edmundo Zura took the only other penalty and missed. The Victory have received 4.
• Ben Kennedy will play his 90th match for the Jets. However, the Jets have never had a home win with Kennedy in goals against the Victory.
• Adam Taggart last weekend equalled Joel Griffith’s record of 14 goals in a season. This was scored in the same number of games, however Griffiths scored his 14 one game quicker.
• In 12 matches, the Victory has only scored twice in the first half when playing at Newcastle. They have scored 12 goals in the second half.
• Nathan Coe hasn’t kept a clean sheet at Hunter Stadium.