The visiting Melbourne Victory team are thought to be odds-on favourites at Newcastle Jets, as the visitors have a 10 point lead from their 21 league matches this season.
- Newcastle Jets have the the best goal difference (+13) at home in A-League
- Melbourne Victory have the fewest conceded goals (20) 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.
Melbourne Victory could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a A-League game only four sleeps ago.
Newcastle Jets form and stats
The overall A-League statistics playing at home this season for Newcastle Jets are 6-1-3 (wins-draws-losses). Newcastle are on a three game winning streak in their home games.
A nice win for Newcastle Jets last time playing, versus Perth Glory. That was also a home game and the match ended 6-1 with Penha (2), Yuel and Mikeltadze (3) scoring for the victors. As mentioned above, Newcastle Jets "killed" Perth Glory in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. Mikeltadze was absolutely essential when Newcastle Jets beat Perth Glory 6-1, scoring three goals. Attacking player Mikeltadze outshone all the other footballers in that fixture and received a match rating of 10.0 out of 10. Mikeltadze scored three goals and hit one key pass.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Brisbane Roar (0-2).Newcastle are traveling soon after this match as the A-League match at Western Sydney Wanderers awaits in four days.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (25 in 10 games), Newcastle Jets's attacking play is working. 12 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. When Newcastle Jets hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Western Sydney Wanderers, Brisbane Roar and Perth Glory), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.
Melbourne Victory form and stats
4-3-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Melbourne Victory in their A-League matches away. In general it has been a productive period now for Melbourne as they haven't lost any of their last ten games.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Melbourne Victory goalkeeper Ivan Kelava is eager to challenge this, with his 360 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
Melbourne's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Brisbane Roar that finished 0-0. Geria, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.75. Geria won 5 of 8 duels.
A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Melbourne City.Melbourne Victory are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 8 times in 9 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The teams have faced each other already this season, with the match result Melbourne Victory - Newcastle Jets 1-2 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Newcastle four wins, one draw and Melbourne Victory five victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Mikeltadze 12 goals |   N. D'Agostino 7 goals | A. Thurgate 5 goals |
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| Newcastle Jets | Melbourne Victory | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 20 | 10 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 21 |
| 7 | 6 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | 3 | 2 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 36 | 25 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 28 |
| 31 | 12 | 6 | Conceded | C | 2 | 8 | 20 |
| 95% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 95% |
| 90% | 90% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 56% | 71% |
| 80% | 80% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 22% | 43% |
| 40% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 11% | 19% |
| 15% | 20% | 50% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 65% | 60% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 44% | 52% |
| 25% | 40% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 33% |
| 15% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 22% | 19% |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 4.9 | 5.2 |
| 5.5 | 5.5 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 6.1 | 5.7 |
| 2.2 | 2 | 1.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 15.6 | 15.6 | 14.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 11.2 | 13.3 |
| 5.2 | 5.7 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 3.8 | 4.4 |
| 35% | 44% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 26% | 30% |
| 13.4 | 11.9 | 12.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.5 | 13.2 | 12.2 |
| 4.2 | 3.7 | 5.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4 | 3.7 |
- Melbourne Victory have the fewest conceded goals (20) in A-League
- Melbourne Victory have the fewest conceded goals (8) away in A-League
- Melbourne Victory have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (2) in A-League
- Melbourne Victory haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
- Newcastle Jets have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Newcastle Jets have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Melbourne Victory have scored away.
- Newcastle Jets have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Newcastle Jets have the the best goal difference (+13) at home in A-League
- Newcastle Jets haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
| 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 | 24 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 52 | 31 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 16 | 21 | 46 |
| 2 | Western United | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 26 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 2 | 38 |
| 3 | Melbourne Victory | 21 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 28 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 35 |
| 4 | Adelaide United | 23 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 32 | 30 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 17 | 2 | 34 |
| 5 | Sydney | 24 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 36 | 34 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 2 | 31 |
| 6 | Wellington Phoenix | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 28 | 39 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 23 | -11 | 30 |
| 7 | Macarthur | 21 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 34 | 36 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 24 | -2 | 29 |
| 8 | Central Coast Mariners | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 34 | 31 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 26 |
| 9 | Newcastle Jets | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 36 | 31 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 25 |
| 10 | Brisbane Roar | 21 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 24 | 31 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 18 | -7 | 22 |
| 11 | Western Sydney Wanderers | 20 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 22 | 29 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 20 | -7 | 21 |
| 12 | Perth Glory | 21 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 17 | 33 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 20 | -16 | 14 |
