A-League 2017/18 Round 3 Brisbane Roar v Newcastle Jets/B]

[B]FIXTURE FACTS
Overall – 37 matches between the two teams.
Jets Wins - 14, Roar Wins - 14, Drawn - 9

In Newcastle – 20 matches.
Jets Wins - 4, Roar Wins - 10, Drawn - 6
In Brisbane - 17 matches
Jets Wins - 10, Roar Wins - 4, Drawn - 3

Average Home A-League Crowd – 9584
Average Away A-League Crowd - 11436

Goals in Fixture
Jets – 44, Roar - 47
In Brisbane -
Jets – 23, Roar - 13

1st Goals in Fixture
Jets – 20, Roar - 15

Cards in Fixture
Jets - 85 (77 yellow, 8 red), Roar 54 (50 yellow, 4 red)

Recent Form (A-League)
Jets - WD (4 point from last 6)
Roar - LL (0 points from last 6)

Leading Scorers
Jets - Roy O'Donovan (4)
Roar – Massimo Maccarone (1)

Last Result -
Newcastle Jets 1 (Nabbout 10' pen) - Brisbane Roar 3 (Maclaren 62' pen, Maclaren 74', D'Agostino 90') at McDonald Jones Stadium, A-League, Round 22, Season 2016/17

FIXTURE RECORDS

Biggest Win
Jets 4 (Hingert 8' o.g, Boogaard 62', Ugarkovic 71', Clut 86') – Roar 0 at McDonald Jones Stadium, Round 2, Season 2016/17, 16/10/2016.

Heaviest Defeat
Jets 0 – Roar 5 (Reinaldo 10’, Richter 44’, Brosque 52’, McKay 83’, Murdocca 90+1’), Round 20, Season 2005/06 at Energy Australia Stadium, 26/01/2006.

Leading Scorers in fixture –
Jets - Joel Griffiths (8)
Roar - Reinaldo (7)


COACHING
Coaches Head to Head – 0 matches
Ernie Merrick - 0 wins, John Aloisi - 0 wins, 0 drawn

Newcastle Jets A-League Coaching Records –
Ernie Merrick - 0 matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 0 losses = N/A% win ratio)
Mark Jones - 3 matches (2 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 66% win ratio)
Scott Miller - 3 matches (0 wins, 2 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
Phil Stubbins - 3 matches (0 wins, 0 drawn, 3 losses = 0% win ratio)
Gary Van Egmond - 17 matches (9 wins, 3 drawn and 5 losses = 53% win ratio)
Richard Money - 3 matches (1 win, 0 drawn, 2 losses = 33% win ratio)
Branko Culina - 6 matches (1 wins, 4 drawn, 1 losses = 17% win ratio)
Nick Theodorakopoulos - 1 match (0 wins, 0 drawn, 1 loss = 0% win ratio)
Craig Deans - No Matches
Clayton Zane - 1 match (1 win, 0 drawn, 0 loss = 100% win ratio)[/list]

Brisbane Roar Coach Record – John Aloisi 30% win ratio (3 wins, 3 drawn, 4 losses)




TALKING POINTS:

General

A Jets win will be their 100th in the A-League.
The Jets have the same points and goal difference this season as they did after 2 rounds last year.
There were 13 goals scored across the 3 fixtures between these clubs last year.


Players
If Roy O'Donovan scores this weekend, he will become the first Jets player since Edson Montano to score in 3 consecutive appearances.
Nikolai Topor-Stanley could make his 84th A-League appearance for the club, taking him to 9th overall, surpassing Joel Griffiths.
Michael Theo hasn't kept a clean sheet against the Jets in his last 8 matches.
Theo willalso play his 27th A-League match against the Jets, the 4th most of any opposition player against Newcastle.
Ben Kantarovski and Roy O'Donovan both scored their 4th A-League goal for the Jets. This is the same number of goals Tarek Elrich, Enver Alivodic, Ali Abbas and Nikolai Topor-Stanley have scored for the club.

Newcastle Jets
The Jets have kept just 1 clean sheet in the last 12 months. It has been 11 matches without keeping their opposition scoreless.
Newcastle have never had more than 5 points after their opening 3 A-League fixtures.
Newcastle have scored the first goal 3 times in the last 4 matches between these teams.
However, the Jets have conceded the opening goal in their last 8 competitive fixtures (A-League and FFA Cup).
Three Jets players have been booked in the last 6 matches.