📏 Form Guide

Newcastle United Jets

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Newcastle United Jets will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 0-2 A-League triumph vs Brisbane Roar.

In that game, Newcastle United Jets had 36% possession and 8 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. For Newcastle United Jets, goals were scored by Clayton Taylor (53') and Apostolos Stamatelopoulos (63'). For their opponents, Brisbane Roar got 23 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target.

Rob Stanton's Newcastle United Jets have found the net 7 times over their last six outings. The corresponding number of goals that they have conceded in that time stands at 5.

Wellington Phoenix

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Wellington Phoenix come into this game following on from a 1-0 A-League win with the eclipse of Melbourne Victory in their most recent match.

In that match, Wellington Phoenix managed 55% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 5 on target. At the other end, Melbourne Victory had 21 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Roderick Miranda (95' Own goal) scored for Melbourne Victory.

In the course of their six latest matches, Giancarlo Italiano's Wellington Phoenix have managed to stick the ball in the net 8 times, yielding them the goals scored per game average of 1.33.

Coming into this fixture, Wellington Phoenix are without an away win for the past 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 09/03/2022, there has been little to separate the clubs with Newcastle United Jets winning 3 of those games, Wellington Phoenix 3 and 0 being draws after 90 minutes of play.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 22 in total at an average of 3.67 goals per meeting.

The last league contest between the two was A-League match day 14 on 27/01/2024 when it finished Newcastle United Jets 1-2 Wellington Phoenix.

In that game, Newcastle United Jets managed 57% possession and 17 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Trent Buhagiar (80').

For their opponents, Wellington Phoenix got 16 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Alex Rufer (5') and Oskar Zawada (87') scored.

The referee was Casey Reibelt.

🗞️ Team News: Newcastle United Jets

Looking at personnel, there is just the sole fitness concern for the Newcastle United Jets gaffer Rob Stanton to be concerned with thanks to an otherwise robust group of players. Jacob Dowse (unknown injury) is out of contention. Players who are serving a ban and are therefore ineligible to play are Mark Natta and Lucas Mauragis.

It looks as if The Jets may well make use of the 4-4-2 system for this one, utilising Ryan Scott, Dane Ingham, Carl Jenkinson, Phillip Cancar, Daniel Wilmering, Lachlan Bayliss, Kostandinos Grozos, Callum Timmins, Clayton Taylor, Daniel Stynes and A. Stamatelopoulos.

📋 Team News: Wellington Phoenix

Thanks to a mainly available squad, there’s only a single fitness worry for the Wellington Phoenix gaffer Giancarlo Italiano to contend with. Isaac Hughes (Hamstring injury) won’t be playing here.

We’re of the thinking that The Nix appear most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup, choosing Alex Paulsen, Tim Payne, Finn Surman, Scott Wootton, Sam Sutton, Mohamed Al-Taay, Alex Rufer, Youstin Salas, Bozhidar Kraev, Benjamin Old and Kosta Barbarouses.

🔮 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Wellington Phoenix and Newcastle United Jets could both end up scoring at least one each in what appears to be a good match-up, with little separating the two teams.

While there should be goals at both ends, it’s too close to call. With that in mind, we reckon that it will be a hard-fought 2-2 score draw at the end of this game.

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Victor Martins, 09:14 19/04/2024