Round 16 Preview –Newcastle Jets v Western Sydney Wanderers
Overall – 4 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 1, Wanderers Wins – 3, Draws – 0
In Newcastle – 14 games
Jets Wins – 0, Wanderers Wins – 2, Draws – 0
Last Result -
Jets 0 – Wanderers 1 (Bridge 33) in Newcastle.
Biggest Win
Jets 2 (R Griffiths 28, Heskey 37) – Wanderers 1 (Gibbs 15), Round 6, Season 8 at Parramatta Stadium, 10/11/2012.
Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – Wanderers 3 (Bridge 6, 33, Visconte 80), Round 27, Season 8 at Energy Australia Stadium, 29/03/2013.
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets – 1 (Ryan Griffiths, Ruben Zadkovic, Emile Heskey)
Wanderers – 4 (Mark Bridge)
Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Newcastle Jets Coaching Records –
Gary Van Egmond – 4 matches (1 wins, 0 draw and 3 losses = 25% win ratio)
Average Home crowd – 19577
Key facts:
- Mark Bridge has scored against the Jets 6 times since leaving.
- In 4 matches, only 3 Wanderers players have received bookings.
- The Jets haven’t scored against the Wanderers in the last 2 meetings of the clubs.
- The Jets haven’t kept a clean sheet in the last 5 matches, and haven’t kept a clean sheet at home since Round 2 against Perth (0-0 draw).
- Adam Taggart was the last Jets player to score at home, which was his hattrick game against the Heart.
- The Jets have failed to score in half of their games this season.
- The Jets never played on 1st of February..
- This season, the Jets have had a discipline problem. The Jets have received 54 bookings to date, where our opponents have been booked 34 times.
- This game will be Ruben Zadkovic’s 87th appearance for the club. This moves him to equal 6th in overall A-League appearances for the Jets with Ben Kennedy. In all of these appearances, Ruben has never come off the bench. He has received 26 bookings and 1 red card. He has scored 6 goals for the club.
- This match will be Taylor Regan’s 50th appearance for the club.
- Andrew Hoole has 4 bookings and is one away from a suspension.