15/16 HAL Round 15 | Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix | Sunday 17/01/16 ko 500pm

[Jeterpool]

A-League 15/16 Round 15 Preview - Newcastle Jets v Wellington Phoenix

FIXTURE FACTS

Overall – 26 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 7, Phoenix Wins - 15, Drawn - 4

In Newcastle – 11 matches.
Jets Wins - 4, Phoenix Wins - 6, Drawn - 1
In New Zealand - 15
Jets Wins - 3, Phoenix Wins - 9, Drawn - 3

Average Home A-League Crowd – 10222
Average Away A-League Crowd - 8962

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 30, Phoenix - 51
In Newcastle -
Jets – 18, Phoenix - 19

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 10, Phoenix - 15

Cards in Fixture
Jets - 52 (46 yellow, 6 red), Phoenix 44 (41 yellow, 3 red)

Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets - LDLLL (1 points from last 15)
Phoenix - LDLLD (2 points from last 15)

Leading Scorers
Jets - Milos Trifunovic (4)
Phoenix – Roy Krishna (6)

Last Result -
Jets 2 (Carney 30', Trifunovic 71') – Phoenix 1 (Ki-Je o.g 45+1') at Westpac Stadium, A-League, Round 1, 11/10/2015.

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 11 Round 1

Newcastle Jets	Wellington Phoenix
Mark Birighitti	Glen Moss
Jason Hoffman	Louis Fenton
Daniel Mullen	Andrew Durante
Nigel Boogaard	Ben Sigmund
Ki-Je Lee	Manny Muscat
Mateo Poljak	Albert Riera
Cameron Watson	Roly Bonevacia
Leonardo Vitor Santiago	Vince Lia
David Carney	Michael McGlinchey
Enver Alivodic	Blake Powell
Milos Trifunovic	Roy Krishna

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)

2015/16 SEASON STATISTICS

Number	Name	Appearances	Starts	Substitute Appearances	Subbed off	Minutes Played	Goals	Assists	Yellow Cards	Red - Second Bookable	Straight Red
1	Mark Birighitti	13	13	0	1	1159	0	0	1	0	0
2	Daniel Mullen	7	7	0	0	630	0	0	1	0	0
3	Jason Hoffman	13	13	0	1	1167	0	0	6	0	0
4	Nigel Boogaard	10	10	0	1	879	0	0	1	1	0
5	Ben Kantarovski	13	12	1	2	1067	2	0	4	0	0
6	Cameron Watson	13	9	4	5	801	0	0	3	0	0
7	Enver Alivodic	14	14	0	3	1196	1	0	1	0	0
8	Mateo Poljak	14	14	0	0	1260	0	1	2	0	0
9	Milos Trifunovic	13	13	0	3	1155	4	0	4	0	0
10	Leonardo Vitor Santiago	7	7	0	6	527	0	1	0	0	0
11	Labinot Haliti	2	1	1	1	24	0	0	0	0	0
12	Andy Brennan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Ki-Je Lee	8	8	0	0	720	0	1	1	0	0
14	Mitch Cooper	5	1	4	1	108	0	0	0	0	0
15	Themba Muata-Marlow	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	Radovan Pavicevic	5	0	5	0	82	0	0	2	0	0
18	Josh Barresi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Ben Kennedy	2	1	1	0	101	0	0	0	0	0
22	Lachlan Jackson	10	8	2	2	728	0	0	0	0	0
23	David Carney	13	13	0	1	1168	2	3	6	0	0
24	Nick Cowburn	9	4	5	1	415	0	0	1	0	0
25	Brandon Lundy	1	0	1	0	75	0	0	0	0	0
27	Braedyn Crowley	7	1	6	0	189	0	0	0	0	0
28	Ryan Kitto	8	5	3	5	396	0	1	0	0	0
29	Andrew Pawiak	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	Blake Tuxford	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

COACHING

Coaches Head to Head – 1 matches
Scott Miller - 1 win, Ernie Merrick - 0 wins, 0 drawn

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –

• Scott Miller - 1 matches (1 win, 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 36% win ratio (9 wins, 6 drawn, 10 losses)

KEY FACTS:

General

• The last first half goal the Jets scored was in Rd 1 this season against the Phoenix. It was scored by David Carney.
• A loss or draw this week will equal the Jets record of consecutive winless matches (11).
• The Jets haven't receive a penalty against Wellington at home in over 8 years.
• On average, there are 3 goals scored in this fixture.
• There have been 9 red cards in this fixture however none of them have been issued at Hunter Stadium.

Players

• 3 goals were put past Mark Birighitti in the two matches at Hunter Stadium against the Nix.
• Leonardo's only away appearance this season was against the Phoenix in Rd 1. His other appearances have all come at home.
• Mark Birighitti saved a Roy Krishna penalty in the last match.

Coaches

• Ernie Merrick's Phoneix teams have scored 24 goals in the last 30 minutes of a match. Merrick's Phoneix team have scored 36 goals in total.
• Scott Miller has equalled the longest winless streak for a Jets coach in the A-League over the weekend, held by Phil Stubbins (twice).

Newcastle Jets

• The Jets biggest win in their history came against Wellington Phoenix
• The Jets have scored in 6 consecutive matches against the Phoenix.
• Last weekend was the third match this season where the Jets failed to have a shot on target.
• As has been widely publicised, the Jets need to by the 50th minute to prevent becoming the team to have the longest goaless streak in the league

Wellington Phoenix

• Wellington scored 3 goals in 5 minutes during their last visit to Hunter Sadium.
• The Phoenix are also struggling with their own form, having taken 2 points from their last 5 matches.

[Roundball Enthusiast]

Wont be attending. Will lose. Won't score. Will execute game plan well though.

Will/Wont.

[Hunter403]

New record coming up. As I enjoy putting myself in a miserable state each weekend I will attend, get angry then despondent then wander home, yell at the kids and kick the dog.

[hawk]

boycotting Sunday games. fk you ffa

[redwah]

What do we have? 19 minutes to score to not get the all time record.......all out attack h....2-3-5....score early (please)....make some subs or keep going, don't care just don't get that record.

[plague]

we'll win

[MFKS]

What do we have? 19 minutes to score to not get the all time record.......all out attack h....2-3-5....score early (please)....make some subs or keep going, don't care just don't get that record.

Bullshit.

I say we get the record and then give ourselves something to chase in the future.

Nothing like setting ourselves a challenge

[Hunter403]

we'll win

what are you smoking and where can i get it?

[Jeterpool]

What do we have? 19 minutes to score to not get the all time record.......all out attack h....2-3-5....score early (please)....make some subs or keep going, don't care just don't get that record.

Here you go. from the preview

Newcastle Jets

• As has been widely publicised, the Jets need to by the 50th minute to prevent becoming the team to have the longest goaless streak in the league

[plague]

what are you smoking and where can i get it?

Folks are out there on me for being too negative.
I'm trying to be positive.

Are you enjoying the new Plague?

[WolfMan]

Folks are out there on me for being too negative.
I'm trying to be positive.

Are you enjoying the new Plague?

I'd prefer the Black Plague to be honest

[Wilso8948]

I'd prefer the Black Plague to be honest

Aint nobody got time for dat

[halo se7en]

Pretty sure it's 47 minutes for those playing at home. I thought we were up to 559 and the Knoughts were sitting on 606. I'm almost willing it to happen - feels like we'll have achieved something this season.

[Jeterpool]

Pretty sure it's 47 minutes for those playing at home. I thought we were up to 559 and the Knoughts were sitting on 606. I'm almost willing it to happen - feels like we'll have achieved something this season.

Yep you're right. I calculated on 609.

[Rocknerd]

Durante will foul Milos in the box on the 7th minute allowing us a reprieve grom the record then we'll go on to lose 1-4 with a game full of wonderful tavtics being poorly executed and foolish substitutions which defend a losing game rather than attacking it.

[hawk]

Folks are out there on me for being too negative.
I'm trying to be positive.

Are you enjoying the new Plague?

fk them. Stick to your guns because you can handle the damn truth.

btw, All our fans are the best as no others would back a backward club for this long.

.....cheers have another scotch if watching the game

[plague]

fk them. Stick to your guns because you can handle the damn truth.

Yeah I was just tricking to see if anyone out there expects me to be anything but an asshole on here.

As usual Hawk is fully woke.

[Jeterpool]

Durante will foul Milos in the box on the 7th minute allowing us a reprieve grom the record then we'll go on to lose 1-4 with a game full of wonderful tavtics being poorly executed and foolish substitutions which defend a losing game rather than attacking it.

That'd be interesting. We haven't scored a goal that early since 3/11/2012

[Jeterpool]

Also, we haven't won a match in January since 12/1/2013 - 3 years ago.

The last 6 wins in January have come against teams from Qld - Roar (3), Gold Coast (2) and North Qld.

[halo se7en]

Jets 6-0.... Trif & Leo hat-tricks. Records will be getting smashed all over the place.