2014/15 Hyundai A-League – Round 25 Match Preview – Melbourne Victory vs Newcastle United Jets FC

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2014/2015 Hyundai A-League
Season 10 Round 25
Melbourne Victory FC vs Newcastle United Jets FC

When: Friday 10th April, 2015
Where: AAMI Park, Olympic Boulevard, Melbourne, VIC
Kickoff: 740pm AEST
Watch: LIVE on Foxsports 4 and FoxSports 4HD
Listen: ABC Grandstand Digital online or ABC Radio App
Tweet: @newyboys #MVCvNEW #NTUA

If you are unable to travel to the game in Melbourne, please join us at our new away venue – Sydney Junction Hotel (SJ’s) at Hamilton and watch the game LIVE. SJ’s is our new venue for away Newcastle Jets fixtures. Show your Newcastle Jets Membership at the bar and receive $5 selected house beers, wine and spirits.

FIXTURE FACTS

Overall – 29 games between the two teams.
Jets Wins – 12, Victory Wins – 10, Drawn – 7

In Newcastle – 14 games
Jets Wins – 7, Victory Wins – 2, Drawn – 5
In Melbourne – 15 games
Jets Wins – 5, Victory Wins – 8, Drawn – 2

Average Home A-League Crowd – 10664
Average Away A-League Crowd – 17143

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 42, Victory – 43

Cards in Fixture
Jets – 55 (51 Yellow, 4 Red), Victory – 47 (44 Yellow, 3 Red)

Recent Form (FFA Cup & A-League)
Jets – LLWLL (3 points from last 15)
Victory – WWDWD (11 points from last 15)

Leading Scorers
Jets – Edson Montano, Joel Griffiths, Jeronimo Neumann 3, Victory – Besart Berisha – 11

Last Result –
Jets 0 – Victory 1 (Finkler 85’) at AAMI Park, A-League, Round 12, 27/12/2014 .

FIXTURE RECORDS

Biggest Win

Jets 4 (Bridge 36’, Bridge 48’, Coveny 51’, J Griffiths 73’) – Victory 0 at Hunter Stadium, Round 21, Season 2, 19/01/2007.

Heaviest Defeat

Jets 0 – Victory 5 (Hernandez 41’, Thompson 45’, Allsopp 61’, Allsopp 64’, Brebner 90’), Round 3, Season 4 at AAMI Park, 29/08/2008.
Jets 0 – 5 (Rojas 8’, Leijer 15’, Milligan 30’ pen, Milligan 55’ pen, Rojas 66’), Round 23, Season 8, 03/03/2013

Leading Scorers in fixture –

Jets – 5 Joel Griffiths
Victory – 7 Archie Thompson

2014/15 SEASON STATISTICS

Appearances

  • 24 Edson Montano
  • 21 Andrew Hoole
  • 20 Zenon Caravella, Jacob Pepper
  • 18 Ben Kennedy, Ben Kantarovski
  • 17 Sam Gallagher,
  • 16 Scott Neville,
  • 15 David Carney, Joel Griffiths,
  • 13 Jeronimo Neumann, Kew Jaliens, Allan Welsh, Taylor Regan, Mitch Cooper
  • 10 Adrian Madaschi, Radovan Pavicevic
  • 9 Daniel Mullen, Lee Ki-Je
  • 8 James Virgili,
  • 7 Nicholas Cowburn
  • 6 Mark Birrighiti , Marco Flores, , Enver Alivodic
  • 5 Sam Gallaway
  • 4 Billy Celeski,
  • 2 Jonny Steele, Brandon Lundy, Max Burgess
  • 1 Braedyn Crowley,

 

Goals

  • 3 Joel Griffiths, Edson Montano, Jeronimo Neumann
  • 2 Scott Neville, Lee Ki-Je,
  • 1 Kew Jaliens, Marco Flores, Radovan Pavicevic, Enver Alivodic, Oggie

 

Assists

  • 4 Andrew Hoole
  • 3 David Carney,
  • 1 Joel Griffiths, Scott Neville, Jacob Pepper, Taylor Regan, Jeronimo Neumann, Adrian Madaschi, Edson Montano

 

Yellow Cards

  • 6 Andrew Hoole
  • 5 Kew Jaliens
  • 4 Adrian Madaschi, Taylor Regan, Edson Montano,
  • 3 Jeronimo Neumann, James Virgili, Scott Neville, David Carney, Ben Kantarovski
  • 2 Jacob Pepper, Marcos Flores, Joel Griffiths, , Allan Welsh, Zenon Caravella, Lee Ki-Je, Daniel Mullen, Radovan Pavicevic,
  • 1 Jonny Steele, Sam Gallaway, Mitch Cooper, Sam Gallagher, Nick Cowburn

 

Red Cards

  • 1 Kew Jaliens, Ben Kantarovski

COACHING

Coaches Head to Head – 2 matches
Phil Stubbins – 0 wins, Kevin Muscat – 1 win, 1 drawNewcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –

  • Phil Stubbins – 2 Matches (0 wins, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
  • Gary Van Egmond – 16 matches (10 wins, 2 drawn and 4 losses = 19% win ratio)
  • Richard Money – 3 matches (1 win, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 33% win ratio)
  • Branko Culina – 6 matches (1 wins, 2 drawn, 3 losses = 17% win ratio)
  • Nick Theodorakopoulos – 1 match (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
  • Clayton Zane – 1 match (0 wins, 1 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)

Melbourne Victory Coach Record – Kevin Muscat 33% win ratio (2 win, 3 drawn, 1 loss).

KEY FACTS:

  • The Jets have the opportunity to record back to back away victories since Season 9.
  • The Jets haven’t kept a clean sheet in the last 13 matches against Melbourne Victory.
  • Melbourne Victory have scored in the last 11 matches in Melbourne against the Jets. The last clean sheet in Melbourne against Victory was back in Round 10, Season 3.
  • The Jets haven’t scored a second half goal in 6 matches in total and their last 8 matches away from home. Neumann scored the last away goal in the second half against Perth back in Round 4.
  • The Jets have conceded 13 goals in the last 10 minutes of matches this season.
  • The Jets remain one goal away from scoring the 300th in their A-League history.
  • The only two goals Jacob Pepper has scored were against Victory in Melbourne.
  • The Jets have won all matches where they’ve lead at half time.
  • Ben Kantarovski will surpass Jobe Wheelhouse to become the player with the 4th largest amount of appearances with 107. While Taylor Regan will equal the number of appearances of Michael Bridges (66).
  • The Jets have only received 2 penalties against the Victory, converting one. The Victory, however, have received 5.