A-League 2018/19 Round 5 Western Sydney Wanderers v Newcastle Jets

FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 18 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 4, Wanderers Wins - 8, Drawn - 6

In Newcastle – 9 matches.
Jets Wins - 1, Wanderers Wins - 5, Drawn - 3
In Sydney - 9 matches
Jets Wins - 3, Wanderers Wins - 3, Drawn - 3

Average Home A-League Crowd – 13760
Average Away A-League Crowd - 10984

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 21, Wanderers - 27
In Sydney -
Jets – 12, Wanderers - 13

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 5, Wanderers - 13

Cards in Fixture
Jets - 38 (36 yellow, 2 red), Wanderers 29 (29 yellow, 0 red)

Last Result -
Newcastle Jets 2 (D Petratos 48', Nabbout 68') - Western Sydney Wanderers 2 (Riera 7' pen, Riera 67' pen) at Spotless Stadium, A-League, Round 20, Season 2017/18

Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 2017/18 Round 20
Newcastle Jets Western Sydney Wanderers
Jack Duncan Vedran Janjetovic
Jason Hoffman Joshua Risdon
Nigel Boogaard Brendan Hamill
Nikolai Topor-Stanley Michael Thwaite
Daniel Georgievski Raul Llorente
Steven Ugarkovic Steven Lustica
Wayne Brown Roly Bonevacia
Dimitri Petratos Marcelo Carrusca
Patricio Rodriguez Christopher Ikonomidis
Andrew Nabbout Mark Bridge
Roy O'Donovan Oriol Riera

FIXTURE RECORDS

Biggest Win
Jets 4 (Koutroumbis 11', Hoffman 60', Kantarovski 68', Ugarkovic 84') – Wanderers 0, Round 12, Season 2017/18 at McDonald Jones Stadium, 22/12/2017.

Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – Wanderers 3 (Bridge 6’, 33’, Visconte 80’), Round 27, Season 2012/13 at Hunter Stadium, 29/03/2013 & Jets 0 - Wanderers 3 (Corthwaite 40', Sotirio 42', Corthwaite 50'), Round 25, Season 2016/17 at Hunter Stadium, 1/4/2017.

Leading Scorers in fixture –

Jets - Adam Taggart (3)
Wanderers - Mark Bridge (6)


2017/18 SEASON STATISTICS
Number Name Appearances Starts Subbed On Subbed off Minutes Played Goals Assists Yellow Cards Red Cards
1 Glen Moss 4 4 0 0 360 0 0 0 0
3 Jason Hoffman 4 4 0 3 323 0 1 1 0
4 Nigel Boogaard 4 4 0 0 360 0 0 1 0
5 Ben Kantarovski 3 1 2 1 99 0 0 0 0
6 Steven Ugarkovic 4 4 0 1 355 0 0 2 0
7 Dimitri Petratos 4 4 0 0 360 1 1 0 0
8 Jair Edmundo 4 4 0 4 267 0 0 0 0
10 Ronald Vargas 4 4 0 0 360 1 0 0 0
11 Mitch Austin 3 0 3 0 52 0 1 0 0
13 Ivan Vujica 1 0 1 0 26 0 0 0 0
14 Kaine Sheppard 3 0 3 0 70 0 0 1 0
16 Nick Cowburn 2 0 2 0 24 1 0 0 0
17 Daniel Georgievski 4 4 0 1 349 0 0 2 0
22 Lachlan Jackson 4 4 0 1 334 0 0 0 0
23 Matthew Ridenton 3 3 0 1 253 0 0 1 0
32 Angus Thurgate 1 0 1 0 8 0 0 0 0
44 Nikolai Topor-Stanley 4 4 0 0 360 0 0 0 0


COACHING
Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Ernie Merrick - 0 wins, Markus Babbel - 0 wins, 0 drawn

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
  • Ernie Merrick - 3 matches (1 win, 2 drawn, 0 losses = 33% win ratio)
  • Mark Jones - 3 matches (0 wins, 1 drawn, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
  • Scott Miller - 3 matches (0 win, 0 drawn, 3 losses = 0% win ratio)
  • Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (1 win, 2 drawn, 0 losses = 33% win ratio)
  • Gary Van Egmond – 4 matches (1 win, 0 drawn and 3 losses = 25% win ratio)
  • Richard Money - No Matches
  • Branko Culina - No Matches
  • Nick Theodorakopoulos - No Matches
  • Craig Deans - No Matches
  • Clayton Zane – 2 matches (1 win, 1 drawn, 0 losses = 50% win ratio)


TALKING POINTS:
General
  • Newcastle have been awarded just one penalty in this fixture's history compared to the 5 awarded to the Wanderers.
  • The two matches between these teams at Spotless Stadium have both ended in 2-2 draws.
  • Every second away fixture against the Wanderers, the Jets have scored 2 goals. This match is not the "second" fixture.
  • The Jets went undefeated against the Wanderers last season.
  • The last opposition player sent off in an away Jets' fixture was Nigel Boogaard in Round 8 of Season 13/14. That's a current streak of 65 consecutive matches.

Players
  • Nick Cowburn became the 81st player to score for the club in the A-League.
  • Nikolai Topor-Stanley will surpass Ben Kennedy's 114 A-League appearances for the club, moving into 4th in the overall standings.
  • Nigel Boogaard will surpass Taylor Regan's 68 appearances for the club, moving into 17th in the overall list.

Newcastle Jets
  • Newcastle have kept 2 clean sheets in their last 30 away matches.
  • The Jets have scored in 15 consecutive away fixtures in the A-League.

Western Sydney Wanderers
  • Markus Babbel will be the 4th different coach in the Wanderers dugout in the last 5 meetings between these two clubs.
  • The last 3 goals scored by the Wanderers against the Jets at Spotless Stadium have all been penalties.