A-League 2017/18 Round 17 Melbourne City v Newcastle Jets
FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 22 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 9, City Wins - 10, Drawn - 3
In Newcastle – 12 matches.
Jets Wins - 7, City Wins - 4, Drawn - 1
In Melbourne - 10 matches
Jets Wins - 2, City Wins - 6, Drawn - 2
Average Home A-League Crowd – 9378
Average Away A-League Crowd - 7197
Goals in Fixture
Jets – 32, City - 43
In Melbourne -
Jets – 12, City - 24
1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 11, City - 11
Cards in Fixture
Jets - 62 (61 yellow, 1 red), City 38 (36 yellow, 2 red)
Recent Form (A-League)
Jets - LDWWL (7 point from last 15)
City - LWWDW (10 points from last 15)
Leading Scorers
Jets - Andrew Nabbout (8)
City – Ross McCormack (14)
Last Result -
Newcastle Jets 1 (Nabbout 32') - Melbourne City 2 (McCormack 40' pen, Muscat 86') at McDonald Jones Stadium, A-League, Round 9, Season 2017/18
Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 2017/18 Round 9
Newcastle Jets |
Melbourne City |
Glen Moss |
Dean Bouzanis |
John Koutroumbis |
Manny Muscat |
Nigel Boogaard |
Iacopo La Rocca |
Nikolai Topor-Stanley |
Bart Schenkeveld |
Ivan Vujica |
Scott Jamieson |
Steven Ugarkovic |
Michael Jakobsen |
Ben Kantarovski |
Luke Brattan |
Dimitri Petratos |
Stefan Mauk |
Jason Hoffman |
Nick Fitzgerald |
Joe Champness |
Macin Budzinski |
Andrew Nabbout |
Ross McCormack |
FIXTURE RECORDS
Biggest Win
Jets 3 (Goodwin 56’, Zadkovich 52’, R Griffith 87’ pen) – City 0, Round 19, Season 2011/12 at Hunter Stadium, 11/02/2012.
Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – City 4 (Jaliens 18', Novillo 47', Williams 63', Ramsay 87') at AAMI Park, A-League, Round 21, 14/03/2015, Jets 0 - City 4 (Mooy 43', Fornaroli 56', Mooy 59', Fornaroli 62') at Hunter Stadium, A-League, Round 10, 13/12/15 and Jets 0 - City 4 (Cahill 12', Fitzgerald 65', Fornaroli 75' pen, Fornaroli 81') at AAMI Park, A-League, Round 23 18/3/2017.
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets - Ryan Griffiths (6)
City - Bruno Fornaroli (8)
2017/18 SEASON STATISTICS
Number |
Name |
Appearances |
Starts |
Subbed On |
Subbed off |
Minutes Played |
Goals |
Assists |
Yellow Cards |
Red Cards |
1 |
Jack Duncan |
8 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
720 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
Jason Hoffman |
14 |
12 |
2 |
6 |
1049 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
Nigel Boogaard |
16 |
16 |
0 |
0 |
1440 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
5 |
Ben Kantarovski |
14 |
13 |
1 |
4 |
1139 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
6 |
Steven Ugarkovic |
17 |
17 |
0 |
3 |
1516 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
7 |
Dimitri Petratos |
17 |
17 |
0 |
4 |
1517 |
7 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
8 |
Ronald Vargas |
3 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
197 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
Roy O'Donovan |
7 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
571 |
7 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
10 |
Wayne Brown |
14 |
8 |
6 |
6 |
716 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
11 |
Patricio Rodriguez |
3 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
151 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
Mario Shabow |
7 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
90 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
13 |
Ivan Vujica |
16 |
16 |
0 |
1 |
1431 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
0 |
14 |
Riley McGree |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15 |
Andrew Nabbout |
17 |
17 |
0 |
6 |
1474 |
8 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
16 |
Nick Cowburn |
5 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
104 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
Daniel Georgievski |
10 |
10 |
0 |
4 |
732 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
18 |
John Koutroumbis |
10 |
5 |
5 |
2 |
463 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
19 |
Kosta Petratos |
4 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
27 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
20 |
Glen Moss |
9 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
810 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
22 |
Lachlan Jackson |
5 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
139 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
23 |
Devante Clut |
5 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
59 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
24 |
Joe Champness |
16 |
10 |
6 |
8 |
935 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
32 |
Angus Thurgate |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
20 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
44 |
Nikolai Topor-Stanley |
17 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
1530 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
COACHING
Coaches Head to Head – 1 matches
Ernie Merrick - 0 wins, Warren Joyce - 1 win, 0 drawn
Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
- Ernie Merrick - 1 matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
- Mark Jones - 3 matches (1 win, 0 drawn, 2 losses = 33% win ratio)
- Scott Miller - 3 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 67% win ratio)
- Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
- Gary Van Egmond – 7 matches (3 wins, 1 drawn and 3 losses = 43% win ratio)
- Richard Money - No matches
- Branko Culina – 3 matches (1 win, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 33% win ratio)
- Nick Theodorakopoulos - No matches
- Craig Deans - 1 Match (1 win, 0 drawn, 0 losses = 100% win ratio)
- Clayton Zane – 1 match (1 win, 0 drawn, 0 losses = 100% win ratio)
Melbourne City Coach Record – Warren Joyce 100% win ratio (1 win, 0 drawn, 0 losses)
TALKING POINTS:
General
- This fixture has produced, on average, over 3 goals per game.
- The Jets haven't scored the first goal away to City in the last 4 matches.
- The Jets will play their first away match since they took on Sydney FC in round 14.
- The score in 4 of the last 5 of the fixtures between these teams has been 2-1, each team winning twice.
- This game has been settled by 1 goal on 8 occasions.
- Newcastle have lost their last 4 matches at AAMI Park. Our last win was a 3-2 win over City under Scott Miller in October 2015.
Players
- Milos Trifunovic and Andrew Nabbout, with 4 each, have scored the last 8 Jets goals against City.
- Andrew Nabbout is now outright 5th on the Jets scoring charts, with 16 goals.
- Riley McGree could be the Jets 161st player to appear in the A-League.
- Daniel Georgievski is 1 yellow card from an automatic 1 week suspension.
Newcastle Jets
- The Jets only other game on a Thursday nightt his year was a 4-1 win over Victory at home.
- Newcastle have scored in 17 consecutive A-League games.
- Newcastle's Thursday night record is 3 wins, 1 draw, 3 losses.