A-League 15/16 Round 2 Preview - Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC
FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 32 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 6, FC Wins - 18, Drawn - 8
In Newcastle – 16 matches.
Jets Wins - 3, FC Wins - 9, Drawn - 4
In Sydney - 16
Jets Wins - 3, FC Wins - 9, Drawn - 4
Average Home A-League Crowd – 12525.8125
Average Away A-League Crowd - 14421.75
Goals in Fixture
Jets – 35, FC - 51
In Newcastle -
Jets – 17, FC - 25
1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 10, FC - 19
Cards in Fixture
Jets - 59 (56 yellow, 3 red), FC 68 (61 yellow, 7 red)
Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets - LW (3 points from last 3)
FC - WLD (1 points from last 3)
Leading Scorers
Jets - David Carney, Milos Trifunovic (1)
FC – Filip Holosko (1)
Last Result -
Jets 3 (Alivodic 21’, Montano 67’, Hoole 76’ pen) – Sydney 4 (Brosque 48’, 56’, Ibini 52’, Stambolziev 80’) at Hunter Stadium, A-League, Round 26, 17/04/2015.
Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 10 Round 26
Newcastle Jets Sydney FC Ben Kennedy Vedran Janjetovic Nick Cowburn Sebastian Ryall Taylor Regan Matthew Jurman Daniel Mullen Jacques Faty Ki-Je Lee Rhyan Grant Enver Alivodic Milos Dimitrijevic Jacob Pepper Christopher Naumoff Allan Welsh Alex Brosque Mitch Cooper Alex Gersbach Edson Montano Bernie Ibini-Isei Andrew Hoole Marc Janko
FIXTURE RECORDS
Biggest Win
Jets 5 (Topor-Stanley 22’, Zadkovich 29’, Brockie 38’, Brockie 87’, Abbas 90’) – Sydney FC 2 (Moriyasu 47’, Beauchamp 71’), Round 7, Season 7 at Sydney Football Stadium, 05/02/2012.
Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – Sydney FC 4 (Brosque 13’, Brosque 40’, Milligan 76 og’, Bridge 85’), Round 16, Season 1 at Express Advocate Stadium, 31/12/2005.
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets - Milton Rodriguez, Ryan Griffiths, Jeremy Brockie, Michael Bridges, Jobe Wheelhouse (3)
FC - Alex Brosque (6)
2015/16 SEASON STATISTICS
Number Name Appearances Starts Substitute Appearances Subbed off Minutes Played Goals Assists Yellow Cards Red - Second Bookable Straight Red 1 Mark Birighitti 1 1 0 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 2 Daniel Mullen 1 1 0 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 3 Jason Hoffman 1 1 0 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 4 Nigel Boogaard 1 1 0 0 77 0 0 0 1 0 5 Ben Kantarovski 1 0 1 0 28 0 0 1 0 0 6 Cameron Watson 1 1 0 1 62 0 0 0 0 0 7 Enver Alivodic 1 1 0 0 90 0 0 1 0 0 8 Mateo Poljak 1 1 0 0 90 0 0 1 0 0 9 Milos Trifunovic 1 1 0 1 89 1 0 0 0 0 10 Leonardo Vitor Santiago 1 1 0 1 81 0 0 0 0 0 11 Labinot Haliti 1 0 1 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 12 Andy Brennan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Ki-Je Lee 1 1 0 0 90 0 1 0 0 0 14 Mitch Cooper 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 Themba Muata-Marlow 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 Lachlan Jackson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 Radovan Pavicevic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Ben Kennedy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 23 David Carney 1 1 0 0 90 1 1 1 0 0 24 Braedyn Crowley 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 Brandon Lundy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
COACHING
Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Scott Miller - 0 wins, Graham Arnold - 0 wins, 0 drawn
Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
- Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (0 win, 1 draw, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
- Gary Van Egmond – 18 match (4 wins, 3 drawn and 11 losses = 22% win ratio)
- Richard Money – 3 matches (1 wins, 2 drawn, 0 loss = 33% win ratio)
- Branko Culina – 6 matches (1 win, 4 drawn, 1 loss = 17% win ratio)
- Nick Theodorakopoulos – 1 match (0 wins, 1 drawn, 0 losses = 0% win ratio)
- Craig Deans - No matches
- Clayton Zane – 1 match (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 losses = 0% win ratio)
Sydney FC Coach Record – Graham Arnold 0.461538461538462 win ratio (6 wins, 5 drawn, 2 losses)
PLAYER FOCUS
This week we take a look at another player who has returned to the Jets in the off-season and is a crowd favourite from his two previous stints with the club.
- Labinot Haliti has made 10 appearances against Sydney FC which has consisted of 6 starts and 4 appearances as a substitute. He has been substituted 5 times. He has played on the field for 546 minutes.
- He has captained the side 0 times and scored 0 penalties.
- He has scored 1 goals and provided 0 assists. He has received 0 yellow and 0 red cards. He scored for the Jets once every 316.466666666667 minutes.
- Labinot Haliti has a Win-Draw-Loss record against Sydney FC of 2-3-5.
The opposition player is the leading Sydney FC scorer in this fixture:
- Alex Brosque has made 18 appearances for Sydney FC which has consisted of 18 starts and 0 appearances as a substitute. He has been substituted 3 times. He has played on the field for 1608 minutes.
- He has captained the side 3 times and scored 0 penalties.
- He has scored 8 goals and provided 1 assists. He has received 2 yellow and 1 red cards. He scored for the Opposition once every 207.444444444444 minutes.
- Alex Brosque has a Win-Draw-Loss record for Sydney FC against the Jets of 12-4-2.
- In his A-League career he has made 21 appearances in total against the Jets, scoring 9 goals and provided 1 assist. He scored 0 penalties and missed 0. He has an overall W-D-L record of 14-4-3.
KEY FACTS:
General
- The Jets haven't defeated Sydney in the last 7 matches between the two teams.
- The Jets have kept only one clean sheet against Sydney in the last 20 matches.
- Sydney have been kept scoreless by the Jets in the first half of the last 5 matches.
- The last time the Jets and Sydney faced off in the 2nd round of matches was Heskey v Del Piero. The Jets won 3-2 in Sydney that day with both marquees scoring.
- The Jets have never won two consecutive matches to start a season. The Jets first home match record (W-D-L) is 2-5-3.
Players
- Mark Birighitti has saved the last two penalties he has faced
- However, he has never kept a clean sheet for the Jets against Sydney FC
- Boogaard (cap 129), Watson (130), Poljak (131), Trifunovic (132) and Leonardo (133) all made their first A-League appearances for the club.
- Carney and Trifunovic became the 58th and 59th players to score a goal for the Jets.
- Trifunovic is the 6th player to score on A-League debut for the club. The others are Vaughan Coveny, Milton Rodriguez, James Holland, Byun Hwan-Sung and Joey Gibbs
Coaches
- Graham Arnold is undefeated in the last 6 matches involving the Jets
- Scott Miller is the 4th Jets coach to win his first A-League match. Others are Gary Van Egmond, Branko Culina and Craig Deans
- Miller is also the first Jets coach to win the first away A-League match he's taken charge of
