2014/15 A-League Round 11 Preview – Newcastle Jets v Adelaide United
FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 28 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 9, Adelaide Wins – 10, Drawn – 9
In Newcastle – 11 games
Jets Wins – 6, Adelaide Wins – 4, Drawn – 1
Average Home A-League crowd – 10833
Goals in Fixture
Jets – 31, Adelaide – 34
Cards in Fixture
Jets – 71 (69 Yellow, 2 Red), Adelaide – 44 (41 Yellow, 3 Red)
Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets – LLDDL
Adelaide – LWLWW *(FFA Cup final not included)
Leading Scorers
Jets – Joel Griffiths 3, Adelaide – Sergio Cirio, Marcelo Carrusca 3
Last Result -
Jets 2 (J Griffiths 21’, Taggart 90’) – Adelaide 0 at Hunter Stadium, A-League Season 9 Round 27, 11/04/2014.
FIXTURE RECORDS
Biggest Win
Jets 4 (Kemp 12’og, Carle 22’, Zelic 68’, Carle 89’) – Adelaide 2 (Valkanis 38, Corbo 67’og) at Hindmarsh Stadium, Round 8, Season 1, 14/10/2005.
Heaviest Defeat
Jets 1 (Bridge 52’) – Adelaide 5 (Rech 8’, Cornthwaite 18’, Shenquing 28’, Durante 65’og, Rech 72’), Round 5, Season 2 at Hindmarsh Stadium, 08/09/2006.
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets – 3 (Joel Griffiths, Nick Carle, Mark Bridge, Matt Thompson)
Adelaide – 4 (Carl Veart)
2014/15 SEASON STATISTICS
Appearances
- 10 Kew Jaliens, David Carney, Joel Griffiths, Edson Montano
- 9 Andrew Hoole, Jeronimo Neumann
- 8 Sam Gallagher
- 7 Zenon Caravella, Jacob Pepper, Scott Neville
- 6 Mark Birrighiti , Marco Flores,
- 5 Taylor Regan, Allan Wesh, Sam Gallaway, Ben Kantarovski, Adrian Madaschi,
- 4 James Virgili, Billy Celeski, Ben Kennedy
- 2 Jonny Steele
- 1 Nicholas Cowburn
Goals
- 3 Joel Griffiths
- 2 Edson Montano
- 1 Kew Jaliens, Jeronimo Neumann, Marco Flores
Assists
- 2 David Carney
- 1 Joel Griffiths, Scott Neville, Jacob Pepper, Taylor Regan, Andrew Hoole
Yellow Cards
- 3 Taylor Regan, Kew Jaliens, Jeronimo Neumann
- 2 Jacob Pepper, Marcos Flores, Edson Montano, Adrian Madaschi,
- 1 Jonny Steele, David Carney, Allan Welsh, Ben Kantarovski, Sam Gallaway, Andrew Hoole, Scott Neville
COACHING
Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Phil Stubbins - 0 wins, Josep Gombau - 2 wins, 0 drawn,
Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
- Phil Stubbins - 1 Matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = -% win ratio)
- Gary Van Egmond – 17 matches (5 wins, 7 drawn and 5 losses = 29% win ratio)
- Richard Money – 3 matches (1 win, 0 drawn, 2 losses = 33% win ratio)
- Branko Culina – 6 matches (2 wins, 2 drawn, 2 losses = 33% win ratio)
- Nick Theodorakopoulos – 1 match (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
- Clayton Zane – 1 match (1 wins, 0 drawn, 0 losses = 0% win ratio)
- Craig Deans - 0 matches (0 win, 0 drawn, 0 loss = -% win ratio)
Adelaide United Coach Record – Josep Gombau 33% win ratio (1 win, 0 drawn, 2 losses)
KEY FACTS:
- In the last 7 seasons, the Jets are the only team to have scored more than 3 goals in one match in this fixture. .
- The Jets have never salvaged a point against Adelaide when trailing at half time.
- If the Jets fail to win this weekend, it will equal the longest winless streak in the clubs history.
- The Jets have won their last two matches against Adelaide at home on a Friday night. Both matches saw the Jets keep a clean sheet with Ben Kennedy between the sticks.
- Newcastle’s last 10 Friday night matches record is (W-D-L) 2-2-6.
- The Jets haven’t scored on a Friday night so far this season.
- In the last 10 meetings, Adelaide have only scored two first half goals.
- The final meeting last year was Michael Bridges retirement match.
- This season the Jets have conceded 11 goals in the last 20 minutes (70 minutes+) and 10 in the 70 minutes prior to that.
- Ben Kantarovski will equal the number of appearances for the Jets as Labinot Haliti if he plays this weekend with 92.
- Nigel Boogaard is the player who has received the most bookings in this fixture with 6 (4 yellows and 2 red).
- The current Adelaide player who has scored the most A-League goals against the Jets is Bruce Djite with 4.
Jets v Adelaide Trivia:
1. Who are the only two Visa players to have captained the Jets in this fixture?
2. Who was in goals for each team in the first A-League match between these clubs?
3. Who are the two Jets players to have scored in this fixture while wearing the captains armband?