Balanced ball game between Newcastle Jets and Western Sydney Wanderers expected

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Competition: Australia A-League
Competition: Wed 23.February
Match begins: 08:55 (UTC)
Venue: McDonald Jones Stadium (33000 seats)

Newcastle Jets - Western Sydney Wanderers in A-League: Numbers, team sheets, fixtures, trends and headlines. Get our broad preview!

Insights:
  • Newcastle Jets have the fewest matches under the total-line (0) in A-League
  • Western Sydney Wanderers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Western Sydney Wanderers could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a A-League game only three sleeps ago. That game, against Western United, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Western Sydney Wanderers.

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Newcastle Jets form and stats

When playing at home in the A-League, Newcastle Jets have managed 2 wins, 0 draws and suffered 3 defeats from 5 games.

Newcastle Jets lost their last game at Melbourne City (placed 2nd) after a 0-3 scoreline. Boumale (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 7.13/10. Boumale hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times and had 23 successful passes (of 26 total).

In the game before, an away victory match versus Melbourne Victory with a 2-1 scoreline.

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 13 matches with the results: Won three, drawn three and lost seven.

The match schedule is unforgiving for Newcastle Jets as they have a new game in only three days, a A-League match thankfully also at home. Macarthur are visiting.

Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 9 goals have been conceded.

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Western Sydney Wanderers form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their A-League travels is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats. Wanderers seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?

Western Sydney Wanderers play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 2-3 to Western United (placed 1st). Midfield player Ugarkovic was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.55/10. Ugarkovic scored one goal, hit two key passes and had 32 successful passes (of 37 total).

Before that, Western Sydney Wanderers secured a home win against Melbourne Victory with the score 2-0.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Wanderers playing away and similar expectations, we found 15 relevant matches. Results were four Western Sydney Wanderers wins, four draws and seven defeats.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Wellington Phoenix in just four days.

Western Sydney Wanderers are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 7 away goals from 5 games (in the league). Western Sydney Wanderers have conceded 11 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The latest H2H encounter ended Western Sydney Wanderers - Newcastle 2-2, played this season. Head-to-head data (for the prior ten meetings): Newcastle Jets won five games, four matches ended in a draw and Western Sydney Wanderers managed one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / four

Top Goalscorers

Newcastle JetsB. Mikeltadze
B. Mikeltadze
7 goals
NewcastleV. Yuel
V. Yuel
4 goals
Western Sydney WanderersT. Hemed
T. Hemed
3 goals

Newcastle Jets missing players

Western Sydney Wanderers missing players

Newcastle Jets Western Sydney Wanderers
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
10 5 1 Played P 2 5 12
3 2 1 Won W 0 1 3
2 0 0 Drew D 0 1 3
5 3 0 Lost L 2 3 6
17 10 4 Scored S 0 7 13
19 9 0 Conceded C 5 11 19
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 92%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 75%
100% 100% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 60% 42%
40% 40% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 40% 33%
10% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 40% 17%
80% 80% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 33%
10% 20% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 33%
10% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 40% 42%
 
4.6 5.6 6 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 5 5.7
5.4 4.6 6 Corners against (avg) C A 3 4.8 4.3
1.6 1.6 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 1.8 1.7
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
14.3 15.6 18 Shots (avg) S ( 11.5 13 14.8
4.6 5.2 9 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.4 3.9
37% 38% 44% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 32% 28%
 
14.6 12.4 10 Shots against (avg) S A 16.5 15.6 11.6
4.8 4.4 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 5.4 4
Key stats in A-League this season:
  • All of Newcastle Jets's matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • All of Western Sydney Wanderers's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Newcastle Jets have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Newcastle Jets have the fewest matches under the total-line (0) in A-League
  • Newcastle Jets have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Newcastle Jets haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Western Sydney Wanderers have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Western Sydney Wanderers haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Western United 12 7 2 3 14 11 6 5 0 1 7 3 6 2 2 2 7 8 3 23
2 Melbourne City 13 6 4 3 26 18 7 3 2 2 12 9 6 3 2 1 14 9 8 22
3 Adelaide United 14 4 6 4 21 19 5 1 2 2 10 8 9 3 4 2 11 11 2 18
4 Sydney 13 4 6 3 18 16 7 2 3 2 10 10 6 2 3 1 8 6 2 18
5 Macarthur 11 5 3 3 18 17 6 3 2 1 10 8 5 2 1 2 8 9 1 18
6 Melbourne Victory 12 5 3 4 16 15 7 3 2 2 11 9 5 2 1 2 5 6 1 18
7 Wellington Phoenix 12 5 3 4 15 18 8 5 2 1 13 7 4 0 1 3 2 11 -3 18
8 Western Sydney Wanderers 12 3 3 6 13 19 7 2 2 3 6 8 5 1 1 3 7 11 -6 12
9 Perth Glory 9 3 2 4 9 7 2 1 1 0 3 1 7 2 1 4 6 6 2 11
10 Central Coast Mariners 10 3 2 5 14 15 5 2 2 1 9 7 5 1 0 4 5 8 -1 11
11 Newcastle Jets 10 3 2 5 17 19 5 2 0 3 10 9 5 1 2 2 7 10 -2 11
12 Brisbane Roar 12 3 2 7 11 18 5 3 1 1 8 4 7 0 1 6 3 14 -7 11

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The A-League is the top level of the Australian football league system. Seasons run from October to May. Ten teams play a regular season of 27 fixtures to create a league table winner and the highest placed teams qualify for a playoff. The league winner is called the “premier” while the playoff winner is the “champion”. There is no set system for relegation, unlike most leagues in the world.