A-League: Melbourne City receive Newcastle Jets in what is nearly guaranteed to be an appealing football match. Here's a thorough preview!
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals (47) in A-League
- Newcastle Jets have the fewest points from losing position (2) in A-League
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1000 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Melbourne City form and stats
7-2-0 is the performance here at AAMI Park so far in the A-League, giving Melbourne City a total of 23 from their 9 games here. Outstanding results! Melbourne are on a three game winning streak in their home games.
Melbourne City drew their last game, 1-1 away at Macarthur (placed 9th). Midfield player Jamieson got a match rating of 7.7 in that game, the max score being 10. Jamieson hit the woodwork once, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 74 successful passes (of 85 total).
Before that, Melbourne City had a home game versus Brisbane Roar which ended with a victory 2-1.Melbourne are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 11 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 9, drew 2 and lost 0.
Sports gamblers, take note: A review of the 10 latest league games shows that 9 of them had goals from both teams.
Melbourne City have conceded 10 in these home matches.
Newcastle Jets form and stats
3 wins, 2 draws and 5 losses. That’s the product of Newcastle Jets playing as the away team in the A-League this season.
There were no winners in Newcastle Jets's previous match, the home game that ended 2-2 vs Perth Glory (placed 10th). Attacker Grozos got a player rating of 7.72 in the game. "Man of the match" Grozos scored one goal, hit one key pass and had 21 successful passes (of 24 total).
A loss against Adelaide United was the result prior to that, in a home game.Observe! Both sides have scored at least once in 8 of this club's last 10 league matches.
The attacking power of Newcastle when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 10 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Newcastle Jets have conceded 17 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
The duelists have battled earlier this season: Newcastle Jets - Melbourne City 1-2. Previous ten meetings between these squads: Melbourne won six, Newcastle Jets triumphed in four and we saw zero draws. eight games with over 2,5 goals, two matches with less than 2,5 goals. One of the profiles has been Maclaren with 8 goals scored against Newcastle Jets in these 10 games.
Top Goalscorers
  J. MacLaren 18 goals |  M. Leckie 6 goals |  M. Tilio 5 goals |
Melbourne City missing players
Newcastle Jets missing players
| Melbourne City | Newcastle Jets | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 10 | 4 | Played | P | 4 | 10 | 21 |
| 12 | 7 | 3 | Won | W | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 47 | 27 | 11 | Scored | S | 3 | 8 | 26 |
| 25 | 10 | 5 | Conceded | C | 6 | 17 | 35 |
| 90% | 90% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 86% | 80% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 80% | 86% |
| 67% | 80% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 50% | 62% |
| 48% | 60% | 75% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 33% |
| 29% | 30% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 67% | 60% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 25% | 40% | 57% |
| 33% | 40% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 20% | 14% |
| 10% | 10% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | 29% |
| 6.4 | 6 | 6.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.2 | 4.9 | 5 |
| 4.1 | 3.8 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7.2 | 6.9 | 6.1 |
| 2 | 1.6 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16.9 | 16.5 | 16.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7.2 | 10.9 | 10.9 |
| 5.7 | 6.4 | 7.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| 39% | 42% | 38% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 20% | 30% |
| 9.9 | 7.5 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.2 | 14 | 13.8 |
| 4 | 3.1 | 3.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.2 | 5.6 | 5.8 |
- Melbourne City have not yet lost a game at home.
- Melbourne City have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Melbourne City have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Melbourne City have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Newcastle Jets have scored away.
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals (27) at home in A-League
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals (47) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the most scored goals in the first half (25) in A-League
- Melbourne City have the the best goal difference (+17) at home in A-League
- Melbourne City have the the best goal difference (+22) in A-League
- Newcastle Jets have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Newcastle Jets have the fewest points from losing position (2) in A-League
- Newcastle Jets haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Melbourne City | 20 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 47 | 25 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 22 | 41 |
| 2 | Adelaide United | 21 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 44 | 34 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 23 | 10 | 37 |
| 3 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 21 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 31 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 34 |
| 4 | Central Coast Mariners | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 40 | 31 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 31 |
| 5 | Wellington Phoenix | 21 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 34 | 33 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 1 | 31 |
| 6 | Sydney | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 28 | 34 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 17 | 16 | -6 | 27 |
| 7 | Newcastle Jets | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 26 | 35 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 17 | -9 | 25 |
| 8 | Western United | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 27 | 37 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -10 | 25 |
| 9 | Macarthur | 21 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 26 | 39 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 26 | -13 | 25 |
| 10 | Perth Glory | 21 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 28 | 35 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 21 | -7 | 24 |
| 11 | Brisbane Roar | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 25 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 16 | -6 | 23 |
| 12 | Melbourne Victory | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 23 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | -4 | 21 |
