A-League 2017/18 Round 25 Newcastle Jets v Melbourne City

FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 23 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 9, City Wins - 10, Drawn - 4

In Newcastle – 12 matches.
Jets Wins - 7, City Wins - 4, Drawn - 1
In Melbourne - 11 matches
Jets Wins - 2, City Wins - 6, Drawn - 3

Average Home A-League Crowd – 9378
Average Away A-League Crowd - 7251

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 34, City - 45
In Newcastle -
Jets – 20, City - 19

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 12, City - 11

Cards in Fixture
Jets - 64 (63 yellow, 1 red), City 40 (38 yellow, 2 red)

Recent Form (A-League)
Jets - DWWWL (10 point from last 15)
City - LLLDW (4 points from last 15)

Leading Scorers
Jets - Andrew Nabbout (10)
City – Ross McCormack (14)

Last Result -
Newcastle Jets 2 (Topor-Stanley 3', Hoffman 70') - Melbourne City 2 (Arzani 43' pen, Vidosic 82') at AAMI Park, A-League, Round 18, Season 2017/18

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 2017/18 Round 18
Newcastle Jets Melbourne City
Jack Duncan Dean Bouzanis
Daniel Georgievski Manny Muscat
Nigel Boogaard Harrison Delbridge
Nikolai Topor-Stanley Michael Jakobsen
Ivan Vujica Scott Jamieson
Steven Ugarkovic Osama Malik
Ben Kantarovski Luke Brattan
Patricio Rodriguez Stefan Mauk
Joe Champness Dario Vidosic
Andrew Nabbout Macin Budzinski
Jason Hoffman Daniel Arzani

FIXTURE RECORDS

Biggest Win
Jets 3 (Goodwin 56’, Zadkovich 52’, R Griffith 87’ pen) – City 0, Round 19, Season 2011/12 at Hunter Stadium, 11/02/2012.

Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – City 4 (Jaliens 18', Novillo 47', Williams 63', Ramsay 87') at AAMI Park, A-League, Round 21, 14/03/2015, Jets 0 - City 4 (Mooy 43', Fornaroli 56', Mooy 59', Fornaroli 62') at Hunter Stadium, A-League, Round 10, 13/12/15 and Jets 0 - City 4 (Cahill 12', Fitzgerald 65', Fornaroli 75' pen, Fornaroli 81') at AAMI Park, A-League, Round 23 18/3/2017

Leading Scorers in fixture –

Jets - Ryan Griffiths (6)
City - Bruno Fornaroli (8)


2017/18 SEASON STATISTICS
Number Name Appearances Starts Subbed On Subbed off Minutes Played Goals Assists Yellow Cards Red Cards
1 Jack Duncan 15 15 0 0 1350 0 0 0 0
3 Jason Hoffman 21 19 2 7 1657 5 1 3 1
4 Nigel Boogaard 21 21 0 1 1882 1 0 2 0
5 Ben Kantarovski 19 17 2 4 1544 5 0 5 0
6 Steven Ugarkovic 24 24 0 4 2113 1 3 1 0
7 Dimitri Petratos 22 22 0 5 1962 9 8 2 0
8 Ronald Vargas 5 4 1 4 288 0 1 0 0
9 Roy O'Donovan 11 10 1 3 817 7 2 3 1
10 Wayne Brown 19 11 8 8 948 0 0 4 0
11 Patricio Rodriguez 8 6 2 4 572 1 3 0 0
12 Mario Shabow 7 0 7 0 90 0 0 1 0
13 Ivan Vujica 19 17 2 2 1520 0 2 5 0
15 Andrew Nabbout 22 22 0 8 1902 10 7 4 0
16 Nick Cowburn 8 0 8 0 156 0 0 0 0
17 Daniel Georgievski 16 16 0 4 1272 1 2 7 0
18 John Koutroumbis 10 5 5 2 463 2 0 2 0
19 Kosta Petratos 4 0 4 0 27 0 0 0 0
20 Glen Moss 9 9 0 0 810 0 0 0 0
22 Lachlan Jackson 10 4 6 1 423 0 0 0 0
23 Devante Clut 5 1 4 1 59 0 0 0 0
24 Joe Champness 22 13 9 11 1130 4 1 1 0
27 Riley McGree 7 4 3 1 436 1 0 0 0
32 Angus Thurgate 6 0 6 0 93 0 0 0 0
44 Nikolai Topor-Stanley 24 24 0 0 2160 1 1 4 0


COACHING
Coaches Head to Head – 2 matches
Ernie Merrick - 0 wins, Warren Joyce - 1 win, 1 draw

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
  • Ernie Merrick - 2 matches (0 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
  • Mark Jones - 3 matches (1 win, 0 drawn, 2 losses = 33% win ratio)
  • Scott Miller - 3 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 67% win ratio)
  • Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
  • Gary Van Egmond – 7 matches (3 wins, 1 drawn and 3 losses = 43% win ratio)
  • Richard Money - No matches
  • Branko Culina – 3 matches (1 win, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 33% win ratio)
  • Nick Theodorakopoulos - No matches
  • Craig Deans - 1 Match (1 win, 0 drawn, 0 losses = 100% win ratio)
  • Clayton Zane – 1 match (1 win, 0 drawn, 0 losses = 100% win ratio)


Melbourne City Coach Record – Warren Joyce 50% win ratio (1 win, 1 draw, 0 losses)


TALKING POINTS:
General
  • The Jets secured 2nd spot following Victory's 1-0 loss to Perth.
  • This fixture has provided, on average, 4 goals per game over the last 10.
  • The two Sunday Jets home games this season have been draws.
  • City have defeated the Jets 4-0 once in each of the last 3 seasons.

Key Stats from Previous Round
  • This was the first match the Jets have lost by greater than 2 goals.
  • Ben Kantarovski has scored 5 goals this season, more than doubling his tally from the previous 9 seasons.
  • Bruno Fornaroli has scored in 5 consecutive matches against the Jets. He's scored 7 goals during that time.
  • The Jets scored in their 24th consecutive A-League match.

Players
  • Jason Hoffman is the 9th player to reach 100 A-League appearances for the Jets.
  • Daniel Georgievski is 1 yellow card from receiving a 1 week suspension.
  • Mateo Poljak was the last Jets played to score in April - the final goal in the 4-2 thrashing of the Mariners in 2016.

Newcastle Jets
  • The Jets have opened the scoring against City in the last 3 home games, and 7 of the last 9.
  • Newcastle have won 8, drawn 2 and lost 2 at home this season. One loss was to City.
  • The Jets have scored over 2 goals per home game, while conceding less than 1 goal per match.
  • However, they've had an average of 47% possession at home this season.

Melbourne City
  • City haven't been kept scoreless in 11 matches against the Jets.