A-League 2018/19 Round 1 Wellington Phoenix v Newcastle Jets
FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 34 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 11, Phoenix Wins - 18, Drawn - 5
In Newcastle – 16 matches.
Jets Wins - 7, Phoenix Wins - 7, Drawn - 2
In New Zealand - 18 matches
Jets Wins - 4, Phoenix Wins - 11, Drawn - 3
Average Home A-League Crowd – 9553
Average Away A-League Crowd - 8321
Goals in Fixture
Jets – 44, Phoenix - 66
In New Zealand -
Jets – 13, Phoenix - 39
1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 13, Phoenix - 20
Cards in Fixture
Jets - 64 (57 yellow, 7 red), Phoenix 54 (50 yellow, 4 red)
Last Result -
Newcastle Jets 1 (Hoffman 43') - Wellington Phoenix 0 at North Harbour Stadium, A-League, Round 23, Season 2017/18
Starting line-ups from Last Meeting in Season 2017/18 Round 23
Newcastle Jets |
Wellington Phoenix |
Jack Duncan |
Tando Velaphi |
Jason Hoffman |
Scott Galloway |
Lachlan Jackson |
Goran Paracki |
Nikolai Topor-Stanley |
Dylan Fox |
Daniel Georgievski |
Liberto Cacace |
Steven Ugarkovic |
Thomas Doyle |
Ben Kantarovski |
Matthew Ridenton |
Dimitri Petratos |
Matija Ljujic |
Riley McGree |
Sarpreet Singh |
Patricio Rodriguez |
Nathan Burns |
Joe Champness |
Roy Krishna |
FIXTURE RECORDS
Biggest Win
Jets 5 (Heskey 36’, Griffiths 46’, Taggart 57’, Taggart 77’, Bridges 90+3’) – Phoenix 0 at Hunter Stadium, Round 24, Season 2013/14, 22/03/2014.
Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – Phoenix 5 (Barbarouses 24', Finkler 36', Ridenton 49', Hoffman 66' o.g, Bonevacia 86'), Round 24, Season 2016/17 at Westpac Stadium, 26/03/2017.
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets - Joel Griffiths (4)
Phoenix - Shane Smeltz (6)
COACHING
Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Ernie Merrick - 0 wins, Mark Rudan - 0 wins, 0 drawn
Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
- Ernie Merrick - 3 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 67% win ratio)
- Mark Jones - 3 matches (0 wins, 1 drawn, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
- Scott Miller - 3 matches (3 wins, 0 drawn, 0 losses = 100% win ratio)
- Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses = 0% win ratio)
- Gary Van Egmond – 12 matches (3 wins, 3 drawn and 6 losses = 25% win ratio)
- Richard Money - No matches
- Branko Culina – 7 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 5 losses = 29% win ratio)
- Nick Theodorakopoulos - No Matches
- Craig Deans - 1 Match (0 win, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
- Clayton Zane – 2 matches (1 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 50% win ratio)
TALKING POINTS:
General
- The last occasion the Jets played the Phoenix in Round 1 was in 2015/16 when they came away with 3 points in a 2-1 win. The winning goal was scored by Milos Trifunovic.
- This was the Jets last win in Wellington.
- This is the 3rd occasion the Jets and Phoenix will meet in Round 1. The Jets have only faced Adelaide (4) on more occasions in Round 1.
- The Jets have conceded goals in the first half of the last 6 games, while scoring in just one of these.
Players
- Mitch Austin may become the 75th player to appear for the Jets and another team in the league.
- The next player to appear will be the 162nd capped player for the club in the league.
- Matt Ridenton will be the 16th player to appear for both teams in this fixture.
- Andrew Durante will make his 28th appearance against the Jets. This is 8th highest on the list, equal with Manny Muscat and Michael Theoklitos.
Newcastle Jets
- Newcastle lost 3 of 13 away games last year.
- The Jets scored in every away game last year.
- The Jets record in their last 5 games have been won 2, lost 3.
- Newcastle are 14 consecutive games without a clean sheet at Westpac Stadium.
- When scoring first, Newcastle's record last year was 11 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss.