McDonald Jones Stadium: Newcastle Jets vs Central Coast Mariners A-League news and facts

Not much time to rest for the home team, as they played a A-League fixture only three days back. That game was an away game at Western Sydney Wanderers, so at least Newcastle Jets are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

Newcastle Jets form and stats

Newcastle Jets have played 11 A-League games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 6-1-4 (wins-draws-losses).

Newcastle Jets faced defeat in their previous match, away at Western Sydney Wanderers (2-3). Duncan had a busy but productive day in the Western Sydney Wanderers match. Despite making seven saves the loss could not be prevented. Hoffman, defender, was given a rating of 8.14/10 in that game, top of the team. Hoffman scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and won 10 of 19 duels.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Melbourne Victory (1-2).

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Newcastle have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 14 matches with the results: Won four, drawn four and lost six.

Goals decide football matches and Newcastle Jets are scoring many of them at home; 26 on target from 11 league matches. 14 goals have been conceded.

Central Coast Mariners form and stats

There's been little loot from Central Coast Mariners's travels as they have only collected 9 points from 11 away games in the A-League. Central Coast Mariners only have 2 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 3 draws.

It's the second away game in a row for Mariners, but there's smiles all around after the 4-0 victory versus Wellington Phoenix (placed 5th) last time out. As mentioned above, Central Coast Mariners was the only team on the pitch versus Wellington Phoenix in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task. Moresche, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.13. Moresche scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 19 successful passes (of 23 total).

Before that, Mariners travelled to Western Sydney Wanderers and returned home with a draw after the game finished 2-2.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Central Coast Mariners playing away and similar expectations, we found nine relevant matches. Results were three Central Coast Mariners wins, one draw and five defeats.

The visiting Central Coast Mariners have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 16 goals from 11 games. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Central Coast Mariners's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 17 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Newcastle - Central Coast Mariners 1-2 was the result in these sides' latest head-to-head fixture, earlier this season. As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's four Newcastle Jets victories, two draws and four Central Coast Mariners wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

B. Mikeltadze 12 goals

M. Ureña Porras 7 goals

J. Cummings 7 goals

Newcastle Jets missing players

Central Coast Mariners missing players