A-League 15/16 Round 19 Preview - Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets

FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 32 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 12, Roar Wins - 12, Drawn - 8

In Newcastle – 18 matches.
Jets Wins - 3, Roar Wins - 9, Drawn - 6
In Brisbane - 14
Jets Wins - 9, Roar Wins - 3, Drawn - 2

Average Home A-League Crowd – 9791
Average Away A-League Crowd - 11163

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 33, Roar - 38
In Brisbane -
Jets – 17, Roar - 7

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 17, Roar - 13

Cards in Fixture
Jets - 78 (72 yellow, 6 red), Roar 47 (43 yellow, 4 red)

Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets - LWLLW (6 points from last 15)
Roar - DLLWW (7 points from last 15)

Leading Scorers
Jets - Milos Trifunovic (8)
Roar – Jamie Maclaren (10)

Last Result -
Jets 1 (Kantarovski 71') – Roar 1 (Maclaren 52') at Hunter Stadium, A-League, Round 8, 28/11/2015.

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 11 Round 8
Newcastle Jets Brisbane Roar
Mark Birighitti Jamie Young
Jason Hoffman Jack Hingert
Ben Kantarovski Daniel Bowles
Lachlan Jackson Jade North
Ki-Je Lee Shane Stefanutto
Mateo Poljak Dimitri Petratos
Cameron Watson Corona
Leonardo Vitor Santiago Matt McKay
David Carney Brandon Borrello
Braedyn Crowley Jamie Maclaren
Enver Alivodic Thomas Broich

FIXTURE RECORDS

Biggest Win
Jets 3 (Bridge 9’, J Griffiths 53’, Bridge 77’) – Roar 0 at Suncorp Stadium, Round 16, Season 2006/07, 07/12/2006.

Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – Roar 5 (Reinaldo 10’, Richter 44’, Brosque 52’, McKay 83’, Murdocca 90+1’), Round 20, Season 2005/06 at Energy Australia Stadium, 26/01/2006.

Leading Scorers in fixture –

Jets - Joel Griffiths (8)
Roar - Reinaldo (7)


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 17 17 0 1 1519 0 0 1 0 0
2 Daniel Mullen 11 11 0 0 990 0 0 1 0 0
3 Jason Hoffman 17 17 0 1 1527 0 0 7 0 0
4 Nigel Boogaard 13 13 0 1 1104 0 0 1 2 0
5 Ben Kantarovski 14 13 1 2 1125 2 0 4 1 0
6 Cameron Watson 15 11 4 7 911 0 0 3 0 0
7 Enver Alivodic 18 18 0 3 1556 1 1 1 0 0
8 Mateo Poljak 18 18 0 0 1620 0 1 4 0 0
9 Milos Trifunovic 17 17 0 5 1458 8 0 4 0 0
10 Leonardo Vitor Santiago 11 9 2 8 697 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 8 2 6 2 211 0 0 0 0 0
15 Themba Muata-Marlow 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Radovan Pavicevic 6 0 6 0 87 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 13 11 2 2 998 0 0 0 0 0
23 David Carney 15 15 0 3 1334 3 4 6 0 0
24 Nick Cowburn 13 6 7 1 664 0 0 3 0 0
25 Brandon Lundy 1 0 1 0 75 0 0 0 0 0
27 Braedyn Crowley 8 1 7 0 202 0 0 0 0 0
28 Ryan Kitto 11 8 3 7 648 1 1 1 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 - 0 wins, John Aloisi - 0 wins, 1 draw

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
  • Scott Miller - 1 matches (0 wins, 1 draw, 0 losses = 0% win ratio)
  • Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 3 losses = 0% win ratio)
  • Gary Van Egmond - 17 matches (9 wins, 3 drawn and 5 losses = 53% win ratio)
  • Richard Money - 3 matches (1 win, 0 drawn, 2 losses = 33% win ratio)
  • Branko Culina - 6 matches (1 wins, 4 drawn, 1 losses = 17% win ratio)
  • Nick Theodorakopoulos - 1 match (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
  • Craig Deans - No Matches
  • Clayton Zane - 1 match (1 win, 0 drawn, 0 loss = 100% win ratio)


Brisbane Roar Coach Record – John Aloisi 20% win ratio (1 win, 2 drawn, 2 losses)


KEY FACTS:
General
  • The Jets last weekend passed the points tally of the two wooden spoon seasons.
  • Mark Birighitti has never conceded a goal against the Roar at Suncorp Stadium.
  • Last season, Brisbane won all 3 matches against the Jets. The season before, the Jets won all 3 matches against the Roar.
  • Newcastle have scored the first goal in 12 of the 14 matches in Brisbane.

Milos Trifunovic
  • Milos Trifunovic is 2 goals away from being only the third Jets player to score 10 or more goals in the regular season. The other two are Joel Griffiths and Adam Taggart.
  • He has the 6th best goals per minute ratio in Jets history at 1 goal every 182 minutes. Only Joey Gibbs, Franco Parisi, Sasho Petrovski, Adam Taggart and Jeronimo Neumann
  • He is the 5th highest scoring Visa player in Jets history behind Michael Bridges (12), Jeremy Brockie (11), Emile Heskey (10) and Vaughan Coverny (9).
  • He has scored 4 goals in the last 4 matches.
  • Trifunovic is the 5th player to score 2 or more doubles in a season, joining Mark Bridge (2 in Season 2), Ryan Griffiths (2 in Season 7), Jeremy Brockie (3 in Season 7) and Adam Taggart (4 in season 9)

Players
  • Jason Hoffman (7), Milos Trifunovic (4), Ben Kantarovksi (4) and Mateo Poljak (4) are all one yellow card away from an automatic one week suspension.

Newcastle Jets
  • The Jets have lost their last 4 away matches.
  • They have also failed to score in their last 5 away matches. The last away goal was Milos Trifunovic's 78th minute winner against Melbourne City in Round 3 - 462 minute of play.
  • The Jets have kept 9 clean sheets in Brisbane.
  • Newcastle have scored the first goal in 12 of the 14 matches in Brisbane.

Brisbane Roar
  • In the last 4 Brisbane Roar matches, 4 or more total goals have been scored.
  • They have score dhte first goal in the last 4 matches of this fixture.