2014/15 A-League Round 15 Preview – Adelaide United v Newcastle Jets
FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 29 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 10, Adelaide Wins – 10, Drawn – 9
In Adelaide – 16 games
Jets Wins – 3, Adelaide Wins – 6, Drawn – 7
Average Away A-League crowd – 9853
Goals in Fixture
Jets – 33, Adelaide – 35
Cards in Fixture
Jets – 73 (71 Yellow, 2 Red), Adelaide – 45 (42 Yellow, 3 Red)
Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets – DLLWL
Adelaide – WLWLW
Leading Scorers
Jets – Joel Griffiths, Edson Montano, Jeronimo Neumann 3, Adelaide – Sergio Cirio 4
Last Result -
Jets 2 (Neville 49’, Neumann 81’) – Adelaide 1 (Goodwin 69) at Hunter Stadium, A-League Season 10 Round 11, 19/12/2014.
FIXTURE RECORDS
Biggest Win
Jets 4 (Kemp 12’og, Carle 22’, Zelic 68’, Carle 89’) – Adelaide 2 (Valkanis 38, Corbo 67’og) at Hindmarsh Stadium, Round 8, Season 1, 14/10/2005.
Heaviest Defeat
Jets 1 (Bridge 52’) – Adelaide 5 (Rech 8’, Cornthwaite 18’, Shenquing 28’, Durante 65’og, Rech 72’), Round 5, Season 2 at Hindmarsh Stadium, 08/09/2006.
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets – 3 (Joel Griffiths, Nick Carle, Mark Bridge, Matt Thompson)
Adelaide – 4 (Carl Veart)
2014/15 SEASON STATISTICS
Appearances
- 14 David Carney, Joel Griffiths, Edson Montano
- 13 Andrew Hoole, Jeronimo Neumann
- 12 Kew Jaliens
- 11 Zenon Caravella, Jacob Pepper
- 10 Scott Neville
- 9 Ben Kantarovski, Adrian Madaschi, Allan Wesh
- 8 Sam Gallagher, James Virgili, Ben Kennedy
- 6 Mark Birrighiti , Marco Flores,
- 5 Taylor Regan, , Sam Gallaway,
- 4, Billy Celeski,
- 2 Jonny Steele
- 1 Nicholas Cowburn
Goals
- 3 Joel Griffiths, Edson Montano, Jeronimo Neumann
- 1 Kew Jaliens, Marco Flores
Assists
- 3 David Carney
- 2 Andrew Hoole
- 1 Joel Griffiths, Scott Neville, Jacob Pepper, Taylor Regan, Jeronimo Neumann, Adrian Madaschi
Yellow Cards
- 4 Kew Jaliens
- 3 Taylor Regan, Jeronimo Neumann, Andrew Hoole, Edson Montano, James Virgili, Adrian Madaschi
- 2 Jacob Pepper, Marcos Flores, David Carney, Scott Neville
- 1 Jonny Steele, Allan Welsh, Ben Kantarovski, Sam Gallaway, Mitch Cooper, Zenon Caravella, Joel Griffiths,
COACHING
Coaches Head to Head – 1 match
Phil Stubbins - 1 win, Josep Gombau - 0 wins, 0 drawn,
Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
- Phil Stubbins - 1 Matches (1 wins, 0 drawn, 0 loss = 100% win ratio)
- Gary Van Egmond – 17 matches (5 wins, 7 drawn and 5 losses = 29% win ratio)
- Richard Money – 3 matches (1 win, 0 drawn, 2 losses = 33% win ratio)
- Branko Culina – 6 matches (2 wins, 2 drawn, 2 losses = 33% win ratio)
- Nick Theodorakopoulos – 1 match (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
- Clayton Zane – 1 match (1 wins, 0 drawn, 0 losses = 0% win ratio)
- Craig Deans - 0 matches (0 win, 0 drawn, 0 loss = -% win ratio)
Adelaide United Coach Record – Josep Gombau 25% win ratio (1 win, 0 drawn, 3 losses)
KEY FACTS:
- In the last 7 seasons, the Jets are the only team to have scored more than 3 goals in one match in this fixture.
- The Jets have never salvaged a point against Adelaide when trailing at half time.
- Josep Gombau has only lead his team to victory over the Jets once in 4 attempts.
- The Jets kept their only clean sheet of the season in their last match..
- Newcastle’s overall Saturday matches record is (W-D-L) 27-17-35. However, they have a 3-1-2 record against Adelaide
- Only 5 Jets players have scored a goal this season.
- Ben Kennedy has 1 clean sheet from 5 appearances in Adelaide. He was between the sticks during the Jets heaviest defeat to Adelaide in Season 3, conceding 5 goals.
- Kew Jaliens faces a 1 week suspension if he is booked this weekend.
- Ben Kennedy will make his 100th A-League appearance for the club this weekend. He is the 5th player to achieve this.
- Joel Griffiths is now the Jets 9th most capped player, with 82 A-League appearances.
- Nigel Boogaard is the player who has received the most bookings in this fixture with 6 (4 yellows and 2 red).
- The current Adelaide player who has scored the most A-League goals against the Jets is Bruce Djite with 4.