16/17 HAL Round 19 | Newcastle Jets v Melbourne Victory | Sat 10th Feb 2017 05:35pm

A-League 16/17 Round 19 Preview - Newcastle Jets v Melbourne Victory

FIXTURE FACTS

Overall – 35 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 14, Victory Wins - 13, Drawn - 8

In Newcastle – 16 matches.
Jets Wins - 8, Victory Wins - 3, Drawn - 5
In Melbourne - 19 matches
Jets Wins - 6, Victory Wins - 10, Drawn - 3

Average Home A-League Crowd – 10515
Average Away A-League Crowd - 17910

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 47, Victory - 51
In Newcastle -
Jets – 27, Victory - 19

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 18, Victory - 15

Cards in Fixture
Jets - 67 (62 yellow, 5 red), Victory 62 (59 yellow, 3 red)

Recent Form (A-League)
Jets - WDLWL (7 points from last 15)
Victory - WLLLW (6 points from last 15)

Leading Scorers
Jets - Andrew Nabbout (7)
Victory – Besart Berisha (9)

Last Result -
Newcastle Jets 2 (Leilei 61', Brown 76') - Melbourne Victory 4 (Berisha 30' pen, Rojas 35', Ben Khalfallah 60', Troisi 69') at Simonds Stadium, A-League, Round 13, Season 2016/17

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 2016/17 Round 13

Newcastle Jets	Melbourne Victory
Jack Duncan	Lawrence Thomas
Jason Hoffman	Jason Geria
Daniel Mullen	Alan Baro
John Koutroumbis	James Donachie
Ivan Vujica	Leigh Broxham
Wayne Brown	Carl Valeri
Steven Ugarkovic	James Troisi
Mateo Poljak	Oliver Bozanic
Andrew Hoole	Marco Rojas
Andrew Nabbout	Besart Berisha
Morten Nordstrand	Fahid Ben Khalfallah

FIXTURE RECORDS

Biggest Win

Jets 4 (Bridge 36’, Bridge 48’, Coveny 51’, J Griffiths 73’) – Victory 0 at Hunter Stadium, Round 21, Season 2006/07, 19/01/2007.

Heaviest Defeat

Jets 0 – Victory 5 (Hernandez 41’, Thompson 50’, Allsopp 61’, Allsopp 64’, Brebner 90’), Round 3, Season 2008/09 at Telstra Dome, 29/08/2008.

Leading Scorers in fixture –

Jets - Joel Griffiths (5)
Victory - Archie Thompson (7)

2016/17 SEASON STATISTICS

Number	Name	Appearances	Starts	Substitute Appearances	Subbed off	Minutes Played	Goals	Assists	Yellow Cards	Red - Second Bookable	Straight Red
2	Daniel Mullen	8	7	1	1	634	0	0	1	0	0
3	Jason Hoffman	17	16	1	2	1416	1	0	1	0	0
4	Nigel Boogaard	13	13	0	1	1134	2	1	4	0	0
5	Ben Kantarovski	7	5	2	3	464	0	1	0	0	0
6	Steven Ugarkovic	16	15	1	3	1306	1	0	5	0	0
7	Andrew Hoole	17	17	0	0	1530	5	2	5	0	0
8	Mateo Poljak	17	13	4	3	1247	1	0	1	0	0
9	Aleksandr Kokko	8	3	5	3	246	0	0	0	0	0
10	Wayne Brown	15	14	1	4	1206	2	1	4	0	0
11	Labinot Haliti	3	1	2	0	116	0	0	0	0	0
12	Andy Brennan	2	1	1	1	95	0	0	0	0	0
12	Harrison Sawyer	3	0	3	0	47	0	0	1	0	0
13	Ivan Vujica	10	9	1	3	775	0	0	1	0	0
15	Andrew Nabbout	15	14	1	6	1178	7	4	3	0	0
16	Nick Cowburn	13	11	2	1	1039	0	0	0	0	0
18	Ma Leilei	11	5	6	4	513	1	1	4	0	0
19	Morten Nordstrand	14	11	3	7	973	3	1	1	0	0
20	Jack Duncan	18	18	0	0	1620	0	0	0	0	0
22	Lachlan Jackson	8	7	1	1	607	0	0	1	0	0
23	Devante Clut	16	7	9	6	670	1	2	0	0	0
24	Kristian Brymora	1	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	0	0
26	Iain Fyfe	3	3	0	2	205	0	0	1	0	0
28	John Koutroumbis	15	8	7	1	793	0	1	4	0	0

COACHING

Coaches Head to Head – 2 matches
Mark Jones - 0 wins, Kevin Muscat - 2 wins, 0 drawn

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –

• Mark Jones - 2 matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
• Scott Miller - 3 matches (1 win, 1 draw, 1 loss = 33% win ratio)
• Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (1 win, 1 draw, 1 loss = 33% win ratio)
• Gary Van Egmond – 16 matches (10 wins, 2 drawn and 4 losses = 63% 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)
• Craig Deans – 1 match (0 wins, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
• Clayton Zane – 1 match (0 wins, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)

Melbourne Victory Coach Record – Kevin Muscat 42% win ratio (5 wins, 4 drawn, 3 losses)

TALKING POINTS:

General

• The Jets have defeated Victory just once in the last 10 fixtures between these teams.
• The Jets have never lost 3 consecutive matches to the Victory.
• Victory have just one A-League win in Newcastle since 2010.
• While the Jets have scored the first goal at home against Victory in 5 of the last 6 matches.
• The Jets have conceded 4 penalties in their last 6 matches.

Players

• Marcos Rojas has scored 6 goals in his last 4 appearances against Newcastle.
• Andrew Hoole will equal Taylor Regan's number (68) of A-Leauge appearances for the Jets this weekend. They are 15th in overall A-League appearances for the club.
• Wayne Brown, John Koutroumbis, Ma Leilei and Nigel Boogaard are all one yellow card from a one week suspension.
• Jason Hoffman scored his first goal for the club since Round 1 of season 2009/10.

Newcastle Jets

• All 3 penalties awarded to the Jets in this fixture have been awarded at home.
• Just under two-thirds of the Jets goals in this fixure come in the second half.
• The current run of 16 matches is a Jets record for the the most consecutive matches in one season without a clean sheet. The Jets overall record is 18 matches.

Craig Deans – 1 match (0 wins, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
Clayton Zane – 1 match (0 wins, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)

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Originally Posted by Tommyjet

Craig Deans – 1 match (0 wins, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
Clayton Zane – 1 match (0 wins, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)

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Ah, yep. Ta.

Plague Jnr just got himself a Victory shirt.
Legit, he loves Berisha.
Will be wearing it to the game Saturday.

Foxtel insisting that the game is moved to a neutral location with better weather conditions. Apparently they have found a ground in some town called Melbourne.

While I'm not a fan I think Rojas is having by far the greatest season of his career. If the Jets can nullify him they win the game. If not, then it's going to be very difficult.
More than ever the 17:35 start time is insane considering the weather forecast. They really need to make it an 8pm game.

Game has apparently been moved to 8pm kick off on Monday.

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Originally Posted by Grimario

Game has apparently been moved to 8pm kick off on Monday.

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Was just confirmed on facey..

A total of 2 Saturday (day) games for Newy for the season, and 2(?) Friday night games. Rest are Sundays. FFA don't give a **** about Newy or the fans.

Lets see if that changes next season, I presume not.

I guess a plus is it gives a few days for the ground staff to fix any pitch damage caused by the game on Friday night.

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Originally Posted by Roundball Enthusiast

A total of 2 Saturday (day) games for Newy for the season, and 2(?) Friday night games. Rest are Sundays. FFA don't give a **** about Newy or the fans.

Lets see if that changes next season, I presume not.

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Options: a) constantly whinge about our game slots and cry that the ffa don't like us, b)our team could start making finals and playing decent football

One of them will get us what we want. And it's not the first one

I don't reckon they'd give us one thought when making the draw and I'm 100% ok with that

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Originally Posted by monz6

Options: a) constantly whinge about our game slots and cry that the ffa don't like us, b)our team could start making finals and playing decent football

One of them will get us what we want. And it's not the first one

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This.

We are starting to play a more attractive brand of football and with Foxtel fapping over Andrew Nabbout perhaps that's something that will work in our favour of gaining a more favourable slot. Some big name recruits will also help the cause.

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Originally Posted by Jeterpool

This.

We are starting to play a more attractive brand of football and with Foxtel fapping over Andrew Nabbout perhaps that's something that will work in our favour of gaining a more favourable slot. Some big name recruits will also help the cause.

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If FFA are fapping over Nabbout, he's nailed on to switch to a big club at the end of the season. Off to B-tier Europe for 6 months of failure before coming back to Sydney in January.

Seriously the FFA postponed the game based on a weather forecast for 2 days away??


FMD

Amateur hour all round

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Originally Posted by MFKS

Seriously the FFA postponed the game based on a weather forecast for 2 days away??


FMD

Amateur hour all round

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And if they didn't do it, you'd be blowing up on sat about how fvcken hot it is and how unbearable it is for the fans and players.. :gent:
Can't win..

Here's one I didn't add.

If Nabbout scores this week, he becomes the first Jets player to score in 5 consecutive "home" matches. Only 3 players have scored in 4 consecutive home games - Griff, Taggz and Nabbout.

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Originally Posted by Bon

And if they didn't do it, you'd be blowing up on sat about how fvcken hot it is and how unbearable it is for the fans and players.. :gent:
Can't win..

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Bon - clear your inbox. trying to message you

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Originally Posted by Jeterpool

Bon - clear your inbox. trying to message you

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I had the same issue with hawk a few months ago.. Still havent been able to get through to him from his inbox cluttered with supermodels phone numbers..

Sorted... :sup:

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Originally Posted by MFKS

Seriously the FFA postponed the game based on a weather forecast for 2 days away??

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thats because the weather forecasts are always accurate. May as well call it now when you have 100% knowledge of whats going to happen.

Do you even Nat Jeffrey bro?