2018/2019 Hyundai A-League
Season 14 Round 1
Wellington Phoenix FC vs Newcastle United Jets FC
When: Sunday 21st October, 2018
Where: Westpac Stadium, 105 Waterloo Quay, Wellington, New Zealand
Kickoff: 3pm AEDST (5pm local time)
Watch: LIVE on FoxSports or MyFootballLive app
Listen: ABC Grandstand Radio online/app
Tweet: @SquadronNewy @JetstreamNewy #NTUA #WELvNEW
FIXTURE FACTS
Jets Wins – 11, Phoenix Wins – 18, Drawn – 5
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
Heaviest Defeat
Leading Scorers in fixture –
Phoenix – Shane Smeltz (6)
COACHING
Ernie Merrick – 0 wins, Mark Rudan – 0 wins, 0 drawnNewcastle 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.