15/16 HAL Round 20 | Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix | Saturday 20/2/16 ko 515pm

[Jeterpool]

A-League 15/16 Round 20 Preview - Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix

FIXTURE FACTS

Overall – 27 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 8, Phoenix Wins - 15, Drawn - 4


In Newcastle – 12 matches.
Jets Wins - 5, Phoenix Wins - 6, Drawn - 1
In New Zealand - 15 matches
Jets Wins - 3, Phoenix Wins - 9, Drawn - 3

Average Home A-League Crowd – 10010
Average Away A-League Crowd - 8962

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 33, Phoenix - 52
In Newcastle -
Jets – 21, Phoenix - 20

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 11, Phoenix - 15

Cards in Fixture
Jets - 54 (47 yellow, 7 red), Phoenix 45 (42 yellow, 3 red)

Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets - WLLWD (7 points from last 15)
Phoenix - LLLLW (3 points from last 15)

Leading Scorers
Jets - Milos Trifunovic (9)
Phoenix – Blake Powell (7)

Last Result -
Jets 3 (Trifunovic 7' pen, Kitto 26', Carney 66') – Phoenix 1 (Ridenton 81') at Hunter Stadium, A-League, Round 14, 17/11/2016.

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 11 Round 8

Newcastle JetsWellington Phoenix
Mark BirighittiGlen Moss
Jason HoffmanJustin Gulley
Daniel MullenAndrew Durante
Nigel BoogaardDylan Fox
Lachlan JacksonTroy Danaskos
Mateo PoljakAlbert Riera
Ben KantarovskiRoly Bonevacia
Ryan KittoVince Lia
David CarneyMichael McGlinchey
Enver AlivodicBlake Powell
Milos TrifunovicAlex Rodriguez



FIXTURE RECORDS


Biggest Win

Jets 5 (Heskey 36’, Griffiths 46’, Taggart 57’, Taggart 77’, Bridges 90+3’) – Phoenix 0 at Hunter Stadium, Round 24, Season 2013/14, 22/03/2014.

Heaviest Defeat

Jets 0 – Phoenix 4 (Brown 18’, Rojas 31’, Greenacre 41’, Macallister 88’), Round 19, Season 2010/11 at Westpac Stadium, 18/12/2010.

Leading Scorers in fixture –


Jets - Joel Griffiths (4)
Phoenix - Shane Smeltz (6)



2015/16 SEASON STATISTICS

NumberNameAppearancesStartsSubstitute AppearancesSubbed offMinutes PlayedGoalsAssistsYellow CardsRed - Second BookableStraight Red
1Mark Birighitti181801160900100
2Daniel Mullen121200108000100
3Jason Hoffman181801161700700
4Nigel Boogaard141401119400120
5Ben Kantarovski151322113820510
6Cameron Watson15114791100300
7Enver Alivodic191903164612100
8Mateo Poljak191901169701500
9Milos Trifunovic181805154890400
10Leonardo Vitor Santiago12102878701000
11Labinot Haliti21112400000
12Andy Brennan0000000000
13Ki-Je Lee880072001100
14Mitch Cooper936325610000
15Themba Muata-Marlow0000000000
17Radovan Pavicevic60608700200
18Josh Barresi0000000000
20Ben Kennedy211010100000
22Lachlan Jackson141132102300000
23David Carney151503133434600
24Nick Cowburn1477272900300
25Brandon Lundy10107500000
27Braedyn Crowley817020200000
28Ryan Kitto1183764811100
29Andrew Pawiak0000000000
40Blake Tuxford0000000000



COACHING

Coaches Head to Head – 2 matches
Scott Miller - 2 wins, Ernie Merrick - 0 wins, 0 drawn

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –

Scott Miller - 2 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 0 losses = 1% win ratio)
Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
Gary Van Egmond – 12 matches (3 wins, 3 drawn and 6 losses = 25% win ratio)
Richard Money - No matches
Branko Culina – 7 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 5 losses = 29% win ratio)
Nick Theodorakopoulos - No Matches
Craig Deans - 1 Match (0 win, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
Clayton Zane – 2 matches (1 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 50% win ratio)

Wellington Phoenix Coach Record – Ernie Merrick 34% win ratio (9 wins, 6 drawn, 11 losses)




KEY FACTS:

General

Newcastle have the opportunity to do the clean sweep against Wellington for the first time.
The last 5 matches between these teams at Hunter Stadium have seen 3 or more goals.
The last match at Hunter Stadium between these teams is the only home match in the last 2 seasons the Jets have lead at half time and gone on to win.



Penalties

The Jets have been awarded 33 penalties and converted 29 in the A-League (88%) while the opposition have been awarded 45 penalties and converted 36 (80%).
Mark Birrighitti has saved 3 of the last 4 penalties he has faced. He has a 30% success rate at saving penalties in the A-League - the best rate in the Jets history.
Ryan and Joel Griffiths have scored the most A-League penalties for the Jets with 6. Trifunovic is outright 3rd with 4.
2008/2009 (Season 4), 2009/10 (Season 5) & 2012/13 (Season 8) we were awarded 5 penalties, which is the highest we have received in a season.



Players

Mateo Poljak and Ben Kantarovski will miss this match after receiving their 5th bookings for the season against Brisbane
Mateo Poljak was also substituted for the first time this season.
Milos Trifunovic has scored 5 goal in the last 5 games and 4 in the last 3 home matches.
Jason Hoffman (7) and Milos Trifunovic (4) are still one match away from an automatic suspension.
Mitch Cooper scored his first goal in his 30th A-League appearance for the club.



Newcastle Jets

The Jets have had 3 players dismissed in the last 3 matches against Wellington - Ben Kantarovski (2) and Nigel Boogaard.
Jason Hoffman's only two goals for the Jets were scored against Wellington Phoenix.
The Jets have scored the first goal in the last 3 matches at Hunter Stadium.
The Jets have lead at halftime in 3 of the last 4 matches between these teams.



Wellington Phoenix

Glen Moss has never kept a clean sheet at Hunter Stadium.

[plague]

Doomed.
Only Mike Ashley and Terry Venables can save us.
Fold the club etc etc

[RAM]

Big hole in front of the back 4 with both Kanta and Poljak out.

Who will partner Ugar? Surely not Watson the mong.

[Grimario]

Big hole in front of the back 4 with both Kanta and Poljak out.

Who will partner Ugar? Surely not Watson the mong.

Cowburn to mid, Jackson to left back.

Even Pawaik ahead of Watson.

[BodyNovo]

Cowburn to mid, Jackson to left back.

Even Pawaik ahead of Watson.

please please please please please please

[StannyCFCJET]

We all know Miller will pick Shitson no point debating it

[Jeterpool]

Apparently Kanta is available. Did Boogs get the second yellow of the match?

Help please

[rhysd]

Kanta is up to 7 yellows yeah?

[turbojetfireV8]

Watson's chance to shine without having to carry Poljak... :popcorn:

[380]

Watson's chance to shine without having to carry Poljak... :popcorn:

Watson wouldn't and couldn't shine smothered in Mothers or McGuirs, Toss up between him and Warren as to who is the worst to be running around in the HAL.

[hawk]

There will be a game...

my expertise is done here

[Jeterpool]

Kanta is up to 7 yellows yeah?

Confirmed Kanta is out this week despite what the news said last night.

Kanta is on 5. The A-League count his 2 yellow card dismissal as 1 red only.

[rhysd]

Bugger.. Hopefully cow burn in the middle then with Jackson left.

Doesn't matter, kanta hates the nix.. Would have been sent packing anyway.

[belchardo]

Big game - chance to go 4 in front of nix, and potentially 2 behind perth.

We're guaranteed to lose.

[MFKS]

Jeterpool how does Millertime have a. 1% win percentage against these ****s when it is played 2 won 2????


Maths ain't my strong point but FFS

[leftrightout]

I am torn on the result here.
After 2 good results against top teams it would be very un jets to win this one.
So Id say a 3-0 loss.
However, i will not be in attendance and they have an excellent record when i do go so thats pointing to a good win.

I think they even each other out and will play out a dull 0-0 draw.

[Jeterpool]

Jeterpool how does Millertime have a. 1% win percentage against these ****s when it is played 2 won 2????


Maths ain't my strong point but FFS

Concatenate does things with percentages and I missed this one.

[belchardo]

Concatenate does things with percentages and I missed this one.

should have gone with the "just seeing if people read these stats" argument again. :gent:

[Jeterpool]

should have gone with the "just seeing if people read these stats" argument again. :gent:

Got to mix it up. I don't want to become predictable

[Jeterpool]

THE REFEREE: – Chris Beath

Beath has officiated 25 Jets matches.
The Jets W-D-L record under Beath is 5-5-15.
Beath has officiated Jets v Wellington on 5 occasions. The Jets have won once but have lost the last 4 matches.
Beath has never dismissed an opposition player.
The Jets have been awarded only one penalty under Beath. The opposition have been awarded 3.

[hawk]

beath is a cheat

[Bon]

beath is a cheat

Unleash the anger, hawk..
Tenzo pre-game?

[hawk]

Unleash the anger, hawk..
Tenzo pre-game?

mabes. U goin?

[WolfMan]

Have a pub lined up to watch the game from Christchurch. Gold strip and E&C scarf packed. Hope the lads don't embarrass me

[Jetmaster]

You will have fallback ammo if the crikkit goes well there today.

[MFKS]

You will have fallback ammo if the crikkit goes well there today.

They are Kiwis FFS

We already have all the fall back ammo we need

[StannyCFCJET]

Watson omfg ffs ahhhhhhh

[MFKS]

We have a game today??

Must say how pleasing it is to not have to worry about these ****s

Can just sit back relax and enjoy myself all day and check in on the score later to fund out how much we lose by


Enjoy the stress people

[The Dunster]

Didn't even realise their was a game on.

[The Dunster]

1-0 Wellington. More to come

[weston]

DURANTE!!!!

When did we sign this prick again?

[The Dunster]

Dura!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[weston]

So that's 3-0 Wellington?

[Hunter403]

Pavacevic should be doing Watson's job for him now. Couldn't be worse. Damn he is useless

[Grimario]

1-0 Wellington. More to come

Apparently there was a hint of offside in the lead up. By hint i mean a clear two metres.

Good to see quality officiating.

[weston]

Brilliant Nordstrand!!

[plague]

Yeah good finish that. Good lead up work from Milos and Leo too.

[Retro Jet]

Top shelf, top corner
:brrr:
More of that please!

[belchardo]

Beautiful finish. Long may it continue!

[plague]

Jesus there have been some horrific individual performances out there today.

[Hunter403]

Thank God. Watson off

[Hunter403]

Good to see we are not the only team to get idiots sent off

[weston]

What a dickhead.

[weston]

Bus time now?

[Retro Jet]

Hamlet...he's done it again!
Legend

[plague]

Just trying to work out which way we'll totally cock this up.

[plague]

How long is the Ugabooga man signed for?
He's good.

[Grimario]

Just trying to work out which way we'll totally cock this up.

We won't. We'll score another one or two and go into next week with a mountain of confidence only to get smashed.

[MFKS]

Just trying to work out which way we'll totally cock this up.

Sit back relax and wait.

Patience is required here.

Our time will come

[Retro Jet]

Ben Sigmund. Cool.
Maybe get another turd sent off Nix...
F.WIT

[Retro Jet]

Butcherd? That was an @bortion...

[Retro Jet]

Cooper again! BACK YERSELF KID!

[MFKS]

So we **** this up or what???

[weston]

So we **** this up or what???

We tried. Ultimately failed though. Just another thing we can't do properly.

[Retro Jet]

Wello with 10 nearly showed us up Member.

That's probably the spoon dodged now. :thumbsup:

[monz6]

7 in 9 Miller is a genius give us the title now. Cannot wait for Asian champions league.

[MFKS]

So by my counts that makes us 11 points in front of the Gypos ??

That is our only goal now.

Beat those ****s both times we play them finish well ahead of them and make life hard for them to avoid the spoon they rightfully deserve


**** the finals.

Beat the scum is our season in a nutshell

[hawk]

gypos have 6 easy pts to pick up yet.

Nice win from behind twice

[Wilso8948]

Who was our CB looking across the line for welllingtons second? Mullen or boogs? Piss poor defending keeping the attacker on when he had a clear view

[plague]

Who was our CB looking across the line for welllingtons second?

Carney

[Wilso8948]

Carney
****ing Devon head albino ****

[R Ramjet]

If watson and mullen were replaced in the squad by better players than we would be looking pretty good. Both are below average. Cant have mullen as a starting player every week. Gives away too many goals. Put Jackson at CB and cowburn at left back with mullen on the bench as cover. Watson not picked again this season and il be happy

[Hunter403]

What was the bruhaha going on at full time between Trif and Durante? Accusations of spitting?

Did the cops eject someone from the Sqn yesterday? Saw some3going on but couldn't make it out from where i was.

[stopper2]

Okay we won and everyone is happy to get the 3 points. Having watched the replays of the goals, have to say we still need a lot of improvement in defence. Leading 3-2 against 10 men with 5 minutes to go and we were looking way to shaky and doing stupied things which easily could have cost us the win. Watching The World Game on SBS this afternoon and was mentioned that with no threat of relegation, a lot of Aussie players in the A League do not know how to play under pressure. Probably a fair comment as you could just see the players yesterday in the last few minutes suddenly go into like a "panic mode", where is the composure that should be at this level of just keeping the ball in the oppositions half and playing low percentage passes?

[Tommyjet]

Okay we won and everyone is happy to get the 3 points. Having watched the replays of the goals, have to say we still need a lot of improvement in defence. Leading 3-2 against 10 men with 5 minutes to go and we were looking way to shaky and doing stupied things which easily could have cost us the win. Watching The World Game on SBS this afternoon and was mentioned that with no threat of relegation, a lot of Aussie players in the A League do not know how to play under pressure. Probably a fair comment as you could just see the players yesterday in the last few minutes suddenly go into like a "panic mode", where is the composure that should be at this level of just keeping the ball in the oppositions half and playing low percentage passes?
Need to start defending more as a team. Leonardo needs to stop whinging at his teammates and start pressuring the opposition 6's occasionally. Towards the end of the game we were under pressure and we had triffo, alivodic and Leonardo standing on halfway.
Says it all really

[coastiehater]

1st jets game ive gambled on all year on saturday, picked the final score, picked wellington to score first and placed a bet on the jets to win. $800 later thank you jets

[belchardo]

Still have absolutely no idea why milos gave morten a kick after his second goal. :lulzturtle:

[Bon]

Still have absolutely no idea why milos gave morten a kick after his second goal. :lulzturtle:

HAHA I noticed that too!!!

[plague]

Still have absolutely no idea why milos gave morten a kick after his second goal. :lulzturtle:

I just think Milos is a good dude and was happy for his mate.

[Wilso8948]

I just think Milos is a good dude and was happy for his mate.

With a bangin hot mrs

[Wilso8948]

With a bangin hot mrs

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3732066/milos-trifunovic-we-are-family/?cs=306

Do yourself a favour. Not bad for a 7ft tall lank with a shit haircut who never smiles..