Round 19 Preview –Newcastle Jets v Brisbane Roar
Overall – 27 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 11, Roar Wins – 9, Draws – 7
In Brisbane – 12 games
Jets Wins – 8, Roar Wins – 2, Draws – 2
Last Result -
Jets 2 (Donachie 34og, Gibbs 87) – Roar 0 at Suncorp Stadium, Round 9.
Biggest Win
Jets 3 (Bridge 9, 77, J Griffiths 53) – Roar 0, Round 16, Season 2 at Suncorp Stadium, 9/08/2009.
Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – Roar 5 (Reinaldo 10, Richter 44, Brosque 52, McKay 83, Murdocca 91), Round 20, Season 1 at Newcastle, 26/01/2006.
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets – 9 (Joel Griffiths)
Roar – 7 (Reinaldo – including 2 penalties)
Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Newcastle Jets Coaching Records –
Richard Money – 3 matches (1 win, 0 draws, 2 losses = 33% win ratio)
Nick Theodorakopoulos – 1 match (0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
Gary Van Egmond – 17 matches (9 wins, 3 draw and 5 losses = 53% win ratio)
Branko Culina – 6 matches (1 wins, 4 draws, 1 loss = 17% win ratio)
Craig Deans – 0 matches
Clayton Zane – 0 matches
Average Away crowd – 11460
Key facts:
- 22 of the 27 clashes between the two teams have been decided by one goal or less.
- The Roar are the only team the Jets have been behind to at half time and come back to defeat in 9 seasons of A-League. That occurred this Season.
- Joel Griffiths will miss the opportunity to extend his run of scoring for the Jets against Brisbane. Griffiths has scored in 8 consecutive games against the Roar while playing for the Jets.
- Michael Theo has kept 5 clean sheets in 20 matches against the Jets.
- Mark Birighitti has kept 3 clean sheets in 4 appearances against the Roar .
- The Jets kept Brisbane scoreless in the first 5 meetings in Brisbane. Mitch Nichols was the first player to score for the Roar against the Jets in Brisbane in Round 15, Season 4. That was a total of 495 minutes scoreless.
- The Jets have only been kept scoreless in Brisbane once (Round 9, Season 8).
- Matt McKay (4) and Ruben Zadkovich (7) are the most booked players for each team in this fixture.
- The Jets have received an average of 3.4 yellow cards in the last 10 fixtures against the Roar. The Jets have only ever played one game against the Roar where they received no cards or bookings.
- The Jets have kept 8 cleans sheets in 12 meetings against Brisbane.
- The last 6 matches in Brisbane have seen Brisbane score 1, 0, 1, 0, 1 and 0 goals. Following this trend, it could be assumed they will score a goal.
- Thomas Broich is the only player in this fixture to have been given a straight red card. The 7 other players dismissed in this match all received second yellows. Those players are Joel Griffiths, Jobe Wheelhouse, Ruben Zadkovich, Josh Mitchell, Kew Jaliens, Stuart McLaren and Craig Moore.
- In Season 5, the Brisbane Roar fielded a different goalkeeper in each of the three meetings between the teams.
- Neither team has scored more than one goal in the first half in the last 13 meetings.
- The Jets haven’t lost in their last 4 matches against Brisbane.
- A Mike Mulvey coached side has never beaten the Jets. (2 draws and 3 losses).
- Each team has scored 29 goals in this fixture. Brisbane has only scored 5 goals in 12 fixtures against the Jets in Brisbane. The Jets have scored 15 in 12.
- Andrew Hoole will miss the match because he has accumulated 5 bookings this season.
- This match may prove to be Craig Goodwin’s 30th start for the Jets.
- This match will be the 89th start for Ruben Zadkovich. This gives him the 3rd highest number of starts for the club, moving him ahead of Jobe Wheelhouse. Ruben has never appeared for the Jets off the substitutes bench.
The Referee – TBA