Round 14 Preview –Newcastle Jets v Melbourne Victory
Overall – 25 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 12, Victory Wins – 9, Draws – 4
At Newcastle – 11 game in Newcastle
Jets Wins – 7, Victory Wins – 2, Draws – 2
Last Result -
Jets 2(Burns 44, 66) - 1 Victory (Troisi 50) in Melbourne.
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets – 4 (Joel Griffiths, Ryan Griffiths and Labinot Haliti).
Victory – 7 (Archie Thompson)
Coaches Head to Head – 2 matches
Gary Van Egmond (1 win), Kevin Muscat (1 win)
Newcastle Jets Coaching Records –
- Gary Van Egmond – 15 matches (10 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses = 66% win ratio)
- Richard Money – 3 matches (1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss = 33% win ratio)
- Branko Culina – 6 matches (1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses = 16% win ratio)
- Nick Theodorakopoulos - 1 match (0 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
The Referee – Strebre Delovski- Strebre hasn’t given a penalty in a game with the Jets in the last two seasons (only data available at this stage).
- 8 Jets players have been booked in the last 3 games refereed by Strebre, as opposed to 3 opponents though he did send off one opposition player.
- 5 of our bookings and the send off came in the last game in Adelaide this season.
- The Jets have won their last 3 games under Strebre Delovski.
- Strebre has only refereed this fixture once, which was a Season 6 match. The result was a 2-0 loss.
- Our overall win-draw-loss record with Strebre as a referee is 6-1-6.
Average Home crowd – 10451
Key facts:
- The Jets haven’t kept a clean sheet against the Victory since the 0-0 Round 8, Season 6 draw (25/9/2010).
- This was also the last draw between the two clubs, with the last 9 games producing an outright winner.
- The Jets haven’t lost against the Victory at home since Season 5, which was a 1-3 result.
- The last 10 home games against the Victory have seen the results as (most recent first) WWDWLWWDWL.
- This will be the first time Kevin Muscat has lead his team to Hunter Stadium as the manager.
- 3 of Emile Heskey’s 9 goals for the club have come against the Victory.
- Last season was the first season in his tenure Gary Van Egmond failed to win two games against Melbourne Victory.