A-League 16/17 Round 12 Preview - Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix
FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 29 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 9, Phoenix Wins - 16, Drawn - 4
In Newcastle – 13 matches.
Jets Wins - 6, Phoenix Wins - 6, Drawn - 1
In New Zealand - 16 matches
Jets Wins - 3, Phoenix Wins - 10, Drawn - 3
Average Home A-League Crowd – 9788
Average Away A-League Crowd - 8767
Goals in Fixture
Jets – 36, Phoenix - 56
In Newcastle -
Jets – 24, Phoenix - 22
1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 11, Phoenix - 17
Cards in Fixture
Jets - 57 (50 yellow, 7 red), Phoenix 47 (43 yellow, 4 red)
Recent Form (A-League)
Jets - DLLWW (7 points from last 15)
Phoenix - WLLWD (7 points from last 15)
Leading Scorers
Jets - Nigel Boogaard, Andrew Hoole, Andrew Nabbout, Morten Nordstrand, Own Goals (2)
Phoenix – Roy Krishna (7)
Last Result -
Jets 0 – Phoenix 2 (Krishna 21', Krishna 42') at Westpac Stadium, A-League, Round 5, 5/11/2016.
Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 16/17 Round 5
Newcastle Jets Wellington Phoenix Jack Duncan Glen Moss Nick Cowburn Jacob Tratt John Koutroumbis Andrew Durante Nigel Boogaard Marco Rossi Ivan Vujica Louis Fenton Steven Ugarkovic Vince Lia Mateo Poljak Alex Rodriguez Wayne Brown Michael McGlinchey Jason Hoffman Kosta Barbarouses Andrew Hoole Roy Krishna Morten Nordstrand Guilherme Finkler
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)
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 3 3 0 1 243 0 0 0 0 0 3 Jason Hoffman 10 9 1 2 786 0 0 1 0 0 4 Nigel Boogaard 7 7 0 0 630 2 1 2 0 0 5 Ben Kantarovski 7 5 2 3 464 0 1 0 0 0 6 Steven Ugarkovic 10 9 1 2 775 1 0 2 0 0 7 Andrew Hoole 11 11 0 0 990 2 1 4 0 0 8 Mateo Poljak 10 6 4 1 640 0 0 1 0 0 9 Aleksandr Kokko 5 2 3 2 154 0 0 0 0 0 10 Wayne Brown 11 11 0 2 952 1 0 3 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 13 Ivan Vujica 8 7 1 2 644 0 0 1 0 0 15 Andrew Nabbout 8 7 1 5 582 2 3 2 0 0 16 Nick Cowburn 9 8 1 0 722 0 0 0 0 0 18 Ma Leilei 4 1 3 1 124 0 1 1 0 0 19 Morten Nordstrand 8 6 2 3 504 2 0 1 0 0 20 Jack Duncan 11 11 0 0 990 0 0 0 0 0 22 Lachlan Jackson 3 2 1 1 157 0 0 0 0 0 23 Devante Clut 11 5 6 4 554 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 8 6 2 0 557 0 0 2 0 0
COACHING
Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Mark Jones - 0 wins, Chris Greenacre - 0 wins, 0 drawn
Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
- Mark Jones - 1 matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
- Scott Miller - 3 matches (3 wins, 0 drawn, 0 losses = 100% 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 – Chris Greenacre 0% win ratio (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss)
TALKING POINTS:
General
- There has been an average of over 4 goals per match at MJ Stadium over the last 4 seasons (6 matches).
- These two teams have drawn only once in Newcastle.
- The Jets have the chance to make it 3 wins in a row for the first time since 2013.
- This is the most successful Jets December in 3 years. A win will equal the best December performance since 2009( 9 points of possible 12) and 2010 (9 points from possible 15).
- Newcastle's Home record this calendar year is 5 wins, 2 draws and 6 losses.
Players
- Andrew Hoole remains 1 yellow card from receiving a 1 match suspension.
- Hoole and Jack Duncan are the only two players to have appeared in every minute of the season so far.
- The Jets have claimed points in 75% of the matches in which Andrew Nabbout has played.
- The Jets have never lost when Morten Nordstrand has scored.
- Nordstrand has the 9th best goals per minutes played ratio (1 goal every 214 minutes) and 6th best goals per game ratio (3.17) in Jets history.
Newcastle Jets
- The Jets have scored 13 goals in 11 matches this year. In only Season 05/06 (18) and 2012/13 (14) have the Jets scored more goals at the same point in a season.
- The Jets have won the last 2 home matches against the Nix.
Wellington Phoenix
- Shane Smeltz will return for Wellington. He is the player with the second most goals against the Jets in A-League history. He's scored 10 A-League goals against the Jets, 6 of which came for Wellington.
