16/17 HAL Round 5 | Wellington Phoenix v Newcastle Jets | Sat 5 Nov 2016, 5:35PM

A-League 16/17 Round 5 Preview - Wellington Phoenix v Newcastle Jets

FIXTURE FACTS

Overall – 28 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 9, Phoenix Wins - 15, Drawn - 4

In Newcastle – 13 matches.
Jets Wins - 6, Phoenix Wins - 6, Drawn - 1
In New Zealand - 15 matches
Jets Wins - 3, Phoenix Wins - 9, Drawn - 3

Average Home A-League Crowd – 9788
Average Away A-League Crowd - 8962
Goals in Fixture
Jets – 36, Phoenix - 54
In New Zealand -
Jets – 12, Phoenix - 32

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 11, Phoenix - 16

Cards in Fixture
Jets - 56 (49 yellow, 7 red), Phoenix 47 (43 yellow, 4 red)

Recent Form (A-League)
Jets - DWDL (5 points from last 12)
Phoenix - LLLL (0 points from last 12)

Leading Scorers
Jets - Nigel Boogaard (2)
Phoenix – Roy Krishna (1)

Last Result -
Jets 3 (Durante 27' o.g, Nordstrand 53', Nordstrand 73') – Phoenix 2 (H. Watson 22', H. Watson 37') at Hunter Stadium, A-League, Round 20, 20/2/2016.

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 15/16 Round 20

Newcastle Jets	Wellington Phoenix
Mark Birighitti	Glen Moss
Jason Hoffman	Thomas Doyle
Daniel Mullen	Andrew Durante
Nigel Boogaard	Dylan Fox
Lachlan Jackson	Manny Muscat
Cameron Watson	Albert Riera
Steven Ugarkovic	Roly Bonevacia
Morten Nordstrand	Matthew Ridenton
Enver Alivodic	Michael McGlinchey
Milos Trifunovic	Blake Powell
Leonardo Vitor Santiago	Hamish Watson

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	1	1	0	1	63	0	0	0	0	0
3	Jason Hoffman	3	2	1	1	177	0	0	0	0	0
4	Nigel Boogaard	4	4	0	0	360	2	0	0	0	0
5	Ben Kantarovski	4	4	0	2	330	0	1	0	0	0
6	Steven Ugarkovic	4	4	0	0	360	1	0	1	0	0
7	Andrew Hoole	4	4	0	0	360	1	1	1	0	0
8	Mateo Poljak	3	1	2	0	172	0	0	0	0	0
9	Aleksandr Kokko	2	1	1	1	57	0	0	0	0	0
10	Wayne Brown	4	4	0	1	340	1	0	0	0	0
11	Labinot Haliti	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
12	Andy Brennan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Ivan Vujica	4	3	1	0	288	0	0	0	0	0
14	Mitch Cooper	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
15	Andrew Nabbout	3	3	0	2	237	0	2	1	0	0
16	Nick Cowburn	4	4	0	0	360	0	0	0	0	0
17	Radovan Pavicevic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	Morten Nordstrand	3	2	1	2	156	0	0	0	0	0
20	Jack Duncan	4	4	0	0	360	0	0	0	0	0
22	Lachlan Jackson	3	2	1	1	157	0	0	0	0	0
23	Devante Clut	4	1	3	1	184	1	0	0	0	0
24	Kristian Brymora	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	Johnny Koutroumbis	1	0	1	0	8	0	0	0	0	0
30	Pierce Clark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

COACHING

Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Mark Jones - 0 wins, Ernie Merrick - 0 wins, 0 drawn

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –

• Mark Jones - 0 matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 0 losses = N/A% 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 – Ernie Merrick 33% win ratio (9 wins, 6 drawn, 12 losses)

TALKING POINTS:

General

• The Jets are undefeated in the last 4 matches against Wellington.
• The Jets have scored in the last 8 matches against the Phoenix, at an average of over 2 goals per match.
• There has only been one scoreless match between these two teams.
• 5 points from the first 4 games place's this season below 6 previous years, while ahead of 5 others.
• A player has been sent off in each of the last 4 matches between these two teams.

Players

• Johnny Koutroumbis became the 144th player to appear for the Jets in the A-League.
• Hamish Watson has scoring rate of a goal every 45 minutes against the Jets.
• However, Morten Nordstrand has a scoring rate of a goal every 40 minutes against the Phoenix.
• Andrew Hoole provided an assist in his last 2 appearance for the Jets against Wellington.

Newcastle Jets

• Last week was the first match in 8 the Jets have been kept scoreless.
• Newcastle have lost in Wellington only once in the last 4 seasons.

Wellington Phoenix

• Wellington have scored only one goal this season.
• Having played on Monday night in Melbourne, Wellington will have a 5 day turnaround for the match.
• Young defender Dylan Fox will miss the match after being dismissed in the match against Victory for a second bookable offence.

Injuries

• Newcastle Jets Daniel Alessi - Knee (Season), Daniel Mullen - Knee (12 weeks), Ben Kennedy - Achilles (Season), Andrew Nabbout - Groin (3 weeks), Lachlan Jackson - Ankle (indefinte), Ben Kantarovski - Knee (2-3 weeks)
• Wellington Phoenix

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Injuries

• Newcastle Jets Daniel Alessi - Knee (Season), Daniel Mullen - Knee (12 weeks), Ben Kennedy - Achilles (Season), Andrew Nabbout - Groin (3 weeks), Lachlan Jackson - Ankle (indefinte), Ben Kantarovski - Knee (2-3 weeks)

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We're gunna need a bigger injury ward soon.

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Originally Posted by belchardo

We're gunna need a bigger injury ward soon.

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There's only so many characters in a text box, too.

0-0

Lose.
Doomed.
7 at the back.
Jones out.

I know we have improved in recent seasons away to the Nix but losing only once in the past 4 seasons is a bit of a surprise. (refer Jeterpool's stats above)
Nix absolutley fell apart with 10 men against a rampant Victory last night. They will be desperate and playing to regain pride against us; which are always dangerous games. Both Brown and Ugar have been very quiet the past 2 games against WSW and SFC and need to step up against the Nix for us to have any chance.
One thing is for certain is that Boogs will be starting with his fourth CB partner in only the fifth game of the season!

Interesting from the Herald
Jets winger Andrew Nabbout could make an early return from injury in Wellington on Saturday in a rare spot of good news for the injury-hit Newcastle squad.

Nabbout limped off in the second half of Newcastle’s 2-2 draw against Western Sydney Wanderers 10 days ago with a groin tear and was expected to miss three games.

But the 23-year-old trained strongly on Tuesday and could join his teammates on the plane to New Zealand on Thursday to prepare for Saturday’s game at Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

The Jets lost 2-0 to Sydney FC last weekend after a win and two draws to start the season. They emerged from the game with an injury list that now includes central defensive options Daniel Mullen, Ben Kantarovski and Lachlan Jackson, meaning 18-year-old Johnny Koutroumbis could make his A-League starting debut at centre back beside captain Nigel Boogaard.

Nabbout looked dangerous in the first three rounds, especially in the 4-0 rout of Brisbane. Jason Hoffman played wide on the right in a back five last weekend, but it remains to be seen whether coach Mark Jones will stick with that formation when Nabbout returns.

Boogaard said after training that the winger was a contender to play this weekend.

“He’s always champing at the bit to play. He’s always energetic and very vocal about being out there, so hopefully he’s fit and raring to go for the weekend,” Boogaard said.

“He’s a great addition and adds that pace and power that we need in those wide areas.”

The Phoenix lost to the Jets in all three of their meetings last season, have scored just one goal, from the penalty spot, in their four straight defeats to start this campaign and lost 6-1 to Melbourne Victory on the road last weekend.

But Boogaard believes their position on the ladder does not reflect the attacking talent in their squad, including Michael McGlinchey, Roy Krishna and former Victory pair Guy Finkler and Kosta Barabouses.

“We’ll go over there with confidence from previous results, but off the back of their result against Melbourne Victory they’ll be looking to bounce back at home,” he said. “I think, if you watch all their games, they’re quite dangerous and they’ve got some weapons.”

In the Wellington camp, coach Ernie Merrick said his winless side must start accumulating points this week before World Cup qualifiers rob him of a host of players in round six.

"You've got to win games, and we've really got to win games next week. We've got to start next week," Merrick said on Tuesday.

"In November we've been told six players will be out of the squad for the qualifiers. I came into the job knowing that could be the case, [but] I didn't think I'd lose so many first-team players."

Meanwhile, Jets midfielder Mateo Poljak will have an extra spring in his step this weekend after wife, Katarina, gave birth to their first child, Mia, on Monday.

we have no chance. I would take the most boring 1-0 win from any defensive formation. We can show boat later

Even if nabbout is ahead of schedule I'd rather see him sit this week out and get more training under his belt

likewise. it's a long season.

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Originally Posted by Imyourhero

Even if nabbout is ahead of schedule I'd rather see him sit this week out and get more training under his belt

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I was thinking the same thing.

Herald reports the Nabbout will play off the bench.

The team I would start with

-------------------------Duncan

Cowburn----Koutroumbis----Boogs--------Vujica

-----------------Brown----------Ugarkovic
Hoole------------------------------------------------Hoff

------------------------Clut

-----------------------------------Kokko

Res

?????
De Godoy
Poljak
Nordstrand
Nabbout

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Originally Posted by borat

Herald reports the Nabbout will play off the bench.

The team I would start with

-------------------------Duncan

Cowburn----Koutroumbis----Boogs--------Vujica

-----------------Brown----------Ugarkovic
Hoole------------------------------------------------Hoff

------------------------Clut

-----------------------------------Kokko

Res

?????
De Godoy
Poljak
Nordstrand
Nabbout

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id play Haliti out wide bloke needs game time or whats the point. and if i Jones id tell Hoole start playing for the team and stop sooking or im hooking you at half time. rest of the team looks solid

Just not sure Haliti would be up to the defensive duties. Agree he desperately needs some game time though

Nobby has to start

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Originally Posted by Hunter403

Nobby has to start

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I don't think he is fit enough tbh

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Originally Posted by borat

I don't think he is fit enough tbh

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Possibly but probably fitter than Kokko and Haliti. Give him half then bring on one of the others. He seems to be able to make more happen than Haliti or Kokko. Ideally I'd like to see Nobby and big Kok on together

back line is pretty weak on paper. Hopefully they'll aim up and stick it to them

Either the is Hoff out wide (WHY FFS) or were doing the same shit formation we did last week FMD. Kokko should be starting as should Clut. move Brown deeper alongside Stevie U and give Haliti some game time. We need more players who give 100% every week no matter what so that means Haliti

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