2014/15 A-League Round 20 Preview – Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC
FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 30 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 6, Sydney FC Wins – 16, Drawn – 8
In Newcastle – 14 games
Jets Wins – 3, Sydney FC Wins – 7, Drawn – 4
Goals in Fixture
Jets – 32, Sydney FC – 46
Cards in Fixture
Jets – 56 (53 Yellow, 3 Red), Sydney FC – 65 (58 Yellow, 7 Red)
Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets – DDDLL
Sydney FC – WWDWW
Leading Scorers
Jets – Joel Griffiths, Edson Montano, Jeronimo Neumann 3, Sydney FC – Mark Janko 12
Last Result -
Jets 0 – Sydney FC 0 at WIN Stadium, Round 14, Season 10.
FIXTURE RECORDS
Biggest Win
Jets 5 (Topor-Stanley 22’, Zadkovich 29’, Brockie 38’, Brockie 87’, Abbas 90’) – Sydney FC 2 (Moriyasu 47’, Beauchamp 71’), Round 7, Season 7 at Sydney Football Stadium, 05/02/2012.
Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – Sydney FC 4 (Brosque 13’, Brosque 40’, Milligan 76 og’, Bridge 85’), Round 21, Season 4 at Sydney Football Stadium, 31/12/2005.
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets – 3 (Milton Rodriguez, Ryan Griffiths, Jeremy Brockie, Michael Bridges, Jobe Wheelhouse)
Sydney FC – 6 (Alex Brosque)
Average Home A-League crowd – 13107
2014/15 SEASON STATISTICS
Appearances
- 19 Edson Montano
- 17 Andrew Hoole
- 16 Zenon Caravella, Jacob Pepper
- 15 David Carney, Joel Griffiths,
- 14 Scott Neville
- 13 Jeronimo Neumann, Kew Jaliens, Ben Kantarovski, Sam Gallagher, Ben Kennedy
- 12 Allan Welsh,
- 10 Adrian Madaschi,
- 9 Taylor Regan
- 8 James Virgili, Mitch Cooper
- 6 Mark Birrighiti , Marco Flores,
- 5 Sam Gallaway, Radovan Pavicevic
- 4 Billy Celeski, Nicholas Cowburn, Daniel Mullen, Lee Ki-Je
- 2 Jonny Steele,
- 1 Braedyn Crowley, Enver Alivodic
Goals
- 3 Joel Griffiths, Edson Montano, Jeronimo Neumann
- 2 Scott Neville,
- 1 Kew Jaliens, Marco Flores, Radovan Pavicevic, Lee Ki-Je, Oggie
Assists
- 3 David Carney, Andrew Hoole
- 1 Joel Griffiths, Scott Neville, Jacob Pepper, Taylor Regan, Jeronimo Neumann, Adrian Madaschi
Yellow Cards
- 5 Andrew Hoole, Kew Jaliens
- 4 Adrian Madaschi, Taylor Regan, Edson Montano,
- 3 Jeronimo Neumann, James Virgili, Scott Neville, David Carney,
- 2 Jacob Pepper, Marcos Flores, Joel Griffiths, Ben Kantarovski, Allan Welsh, Zenon Caravella
- 1 Jonny Steele, Sam Gallaway, Mitch Cooper, Radovan Pavicevic, Daniel Mullen, Sam Gallagher
Red Cards
- 1 Kew Jaliens, Ben Kantarovski
COACHING
Coaches Head to Head – 1 match
Phil Stubbins - 0 wins, Graham Arnold 0 wins, 1 drawn
Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
- Phil Stubbins - 1 Matches (0 wins, 1 drawn, 0 losses = -% win ratio)
- Gary Van Egmond – 18 match (4 wins, 3 drawn and 11 losses = 22% win ratio)
- Richard Money – 3 matches (1 wins, 2 drawn, 0 loss = 33% win ratio)
- Branko Culina – 6 matches (1 win, 4 drawn, 1 loss = 17% win ratio)
- Nick Theodorakopoulos – 1 match (0 wins, 1 drawn, 0 losses = 0% win ratio)
- Clayton Zane – 1 match (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 losses = 0% win ratio)
- Craig Deans - 0 Match (0 win, 0 drawn, 0 loss = -% win ratio)
Sydney FC Coach Record – Graham Arnold 18% win ratio (2 wins, 5 drawn, 4 losses).
KEY FACTS:
- The Jets are scoreless against Sydney FC in the last 4 meetings. The Jets haven’t scored from open play in 514 minutes because last 2 goals have come from the penalty spot.
- The Jets last goal against Sydney was scored on 2/2/2013.
- Marc Janko has the chance to equal the record of scoring in consecutive games. The record stands at 6 and is held by Besart Berisha.
- The current available Jets squad has an A-League win percentage of 24% while in Jets colours.
- Sydney has scored 19 goals in their last 5 games.
- Last weekend was the second clean sheet the Jets have kept this season.
- Sydney has never lost to the Jets when they have scored first.
- The Jets have used 29 players this season.
- Enver Alivodic is the 124th player to represent the Jets.
- More than two thirds of the goals the Jets have conceded this season have come in the second half (27 of 40).
- The last meeting between these two teams was the first clean sheet Ben Kennedy has kept against Sydney FC.
- Taylor Regan and Edson Montano are both one booking away from an automatic 1 week suspension.
- Ben Kantarovski will equal Adam D’Apuzzo’s record of 102 appearances for the club this weekend.
- It is no longer mathematically possible for Newcastle, this season, to surpass their Season 4 points tally from 21 games. In Season 4 Newcastle earned 18 points from 21 matches, whereas this season we have 11 from 19.