15/16 HAL Round 23 | Newcastle Jets v Western Syd Wanderers | Sunday 13/3/16 @ 500pm

A-League 15/16 Round 23 Preview - Newcastle Jets v Western Sydney Wanderers

FIXTURE FACTS

Overall – 11 matches between the two teams.

Jets Wins - 3, Wanderers Wins - 5, Drawn - 3

In Newcastle – 5 matches.
Jets Wins - 0, Wanderers Wins - 3, Drawn - 2
In Sydney - 6 matches
Jets Wins - 3, Wanderers Wins - 2, Drawn - 1

Average Home A-League Crowd – 16197
Average Away A-League Crowd - 11011

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 12, Wanderers - 16
In Newcastle -
Jets – 4, Wanderers - 9

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 4, Wanderers - 7

Cards in Fixture
Jets - 25 (23 yellow, 2 red), Wanderers 13 (13 yellow, 0 red)

Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets - WDWWL (10 points from last 15)
Wanderers - DLDWL (5 points from last 15)

Leading Scorers
Jets - Milos Trifunovic (9)
Wanderers – Mitch Nichols (9)

Last Result -
Jets 0 – Wanderers 2 (Aguilar 45+2', Bridge 70') at Hunter Stadium, A-League, Round 12, 24/12/2015.

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 11 Round 12

Newcastle Jets	Western Sydney Wanderers
Mark Birighitti	Andrew Redmayne
Cameron Watson	Scott Neville
Daniel Mullen	Alberto Aguilar
Nigel Boogaard	Scott Jamieson
Nick Cowburn	Nikolai Topor-Stanley
Mateo Poljak	Dimas
Ben Kantarovski	Jacob Pepper
Ryan Kitto	Romeo Castelen
David Carney	Mitch Nichols
Enver Alivodic	Mark Bridge
Milos Trifunovic	Federico Piovaccari

FIXTURE RECORDS

Biggest Win

Jets 2 (Jaliens 37’, Taggart 64’) – Wanderers 0, Round 21, Season 2013/14 at Pirtek Stadium, 02/03/2014.

Heaviest Defeat

Jets 0 – Wanderers 3 (Bridge 6’, 33’, Visconte 80’), Round 27, Season 2012/13 at Hunter Stadium, 29/03/2013.

Leading Scorers in fixture –

Jets - Adam Taggart (3)
Wanderers - Mark Bridge (5)

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	21	21	0	1	1879	0	0	2	0	0
2	Daniel Mullen	15	15	0	0	1318	0	0	2	1	0
3	Jason Hoffman	21	21	0	1	1887	0	0	8	0	0
4	Nigel Boogaard	17	17	0	1	1464	0	0	2	2	0
5	Ben Kantarovski	17	13	4	2	1168	2	0	5	1	0
6	Cameron Watson	16	12	4	8	978	0	0	4	0	0
7	Enver Alivodic	22	22	0	4	1908	1	3	1	0	0
8	Mateo Poljak	21	21	0	1	1877	0	1	6	0	0
9	Milos Trifunovic	21	21	0	6	1789	9	0	4	0	0
10	Leonardo Vitor Santiago	15	13	2	11	1031	0	2	0	0	0
11	Labinot Haliti	2	1	1	1	24	0	0	0	0	0
13	Ki-Je Lee	8	8	0	0	720	0	1	1	0	0
14	Mitch Cooper	11	3	8	3	274	1	0	0	0	0
17	Radovan Pavicevic	6	0	6	0	87	0	0	2	0	0
20	Ben Kennedy	2	1	1	0	101	0	0	0	0	0
22	Lachlan Jackson	15	12	3	2	1113	0	0	0	0	0
23	David Carney	15	15	0	3	1334	3	4	6	0	0
24	Nick Cowburn	17	9	8	2	932	0	0	3	0	0
25	Brandon Lundy	1	0	1	0	75	0	0	0	0	0
27	Braedyn Crowley	8	1	7	0	202	0	0	0	0	0
28	Ryan Kitto	13	8	5	7	673	1	1	1	0	0

COACHING

Coaches Head to Head – 2 matches
Scott Miller - 0 wins, Tony Popovic - 2 wins, 0 drawn

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –

• Scott Miller - 2 matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
• Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (1 win, 2 drawn, 0 losses = 33% win ratio)
• Gary Van Egmond – 4 matches (1 win, 0 drawn and 3 losses = 25% win ratio)
• Richard Money - No Matches
• Branko Culina - No Matches
• Nick Theodorakopoulos - No Matches
• Craig Deans - No Matches
• Clayton Zane – 2 matches (1 win, 1 drawn, 0 losses = 50% win ratio)

Western Sydney Wanderers Coach Record – Tony Popovic 45% win ratio (5 wins, 3 drawn, 3 losses)

KEY FACTS:

General

• The Jets have never defeated Western Sydney at home.
• Five of the 13 goals scored in this fixture at Hunter Stadium have been scored after the 80th minute.
• Newcastle have only played the Wanderers once on a Sunday, a match which they won 2-0.
• There has never been a crowd smaller than 10000 at Hunter Stadium present for a match between these teams.

Players

• The last 5 goals the Jets have scored against the Wanderers have been scored by Visa players.
• Milos Trifunovic and Cameron Watson are both one yellow card from an automatic suspension.
• Jason Hoffman will sit out the match after collecting 8 yellow cards during the season. Daniel Mullen will also be absent following his red card last match.
• Nikolai Topor-Stanley has been booked in both matches between these teams this season.
• A player has been sent off in the last 4 matches at Hunter Stadium.

Newcastle Jets

• The last time the Jets lost after travelling to Perth was 23/11/08. The W-D-L record since is 6-3-0.
• The Jets last won 3 in a row at home back in November 2011.
• Trifunovic has scored 4 goals in the last 4 games at Hunter Stadium.

Western Sydney Wanderers

• The Jets have only won once at home when Liam Reddy is in goals for the opposition.
• The Wanderers have received 2 penalties in their last two visits to Hunter Stadium, both in the final 15 minutes of the match.

cards were reset after round 21

Stats are telling 13 cards in 11 matches Wankers have received against us.
How the **** does a physical side like that chalk up a stat like that??

Add in some dodgy penalties and general shit refereeing ie Ben Williams Griff's homecoming game

****s have the FFA in their pocket still

If they play like they did Friday night we have a shot. If we play like we did Monday night, we don't have a shot.

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Originally Posted by lil_masi

cards were reset after round 21

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Ah ok. Thanks

For the third consecutive year, we've been selected as part of the Japanese referee exchange.

Koichiro Fukushima is the referee this weekend.

Japanese ref has to better than that pr1ck from last weekend

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Originally Posted by Jeterpool

For the third consecutive year, we've been selected as part of the Japanese referee exchange.

Koichiro Fukushima is the referee this weekend.

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Koichiro ****uShitney .....we should be right

Expecting us to bounce back at home. We weren't bad for a majority of the game last week. Perth was always going to be a tough trek.

Our winning draught against WSW at home surely has to end. Also we have beaten the wanderers at least once each season part this one.

1-0 nordstand goal

if the whole team works hard at pressing the opposition when they have the ball and if we don't try hail mary long balls and play simple short passes when there's space id back us to get a result.

Please all have your cameras ready for "flarewatch".

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Originally Posted by Superdylan

Expecting us to bounce back at home. We weren't bad for a majority of the game last week. Perth was always going to be a tough trek.

Our winning draught against WSW at home surely has to end. Also we have beaten the wanderers at least once each season part this one.

1-0 nordstand goal

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Weren't you the same bloke spruiking yesterday with great confidence you expected the Knights to beat Souths??

How that work out SD??

Did he really think that? FMD...most reckoned if Souths scored less than 50 it would be like a win though.

Knoughts look like spooners already.

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Originally Posted by Jetmaster

Did he really think that? FMD...most reckoned if Souths scored less than 50 it would be like a win though.

Knoughts look like spooners already.

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Yep

Anyone who has him on Facebook will confirm he was confident pre game yesterday

25mins gone.

The story so far.

Wanderers 1 Jets 0
Milos is yet to touch the ball and Boogaard and Kanta Combination is completely ****ing useless.

ffs - The Jets are terrible today.

Lucky to not be two or three goals behind

This is good garbage.
Scando is rubbish. Jets fans already tearing up the 3 year hypothetical contract they gave him last week.

Miller out.

Oops, I forgot.

I hereby declare support for the Jets this round. Though it's getting pretty tough.

Alivodic is a joke

****. I fell asleep for the last 15 of the half. Did I miss much?