Week 16 brings us a match on Feb 26th where Macarthur will travel to Newcastle to battle Newcastle Jets in a meeting of these two closely matched A-League teams. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy but warm day with daytime temperatures of 22 degrees, which is great football weather. Newcastle Jets is fresh off their 0-3 loss against Melbourne City. Jamie MacLaren scored the first goal for Melbourne City in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time, then Mathew Leckie added another in the 52nd minute In the end, Newcastle Jets couldn’t muster any offence and Melbourne City ran away with the shutout win. Newcastle Jets is looking for direction having 3 win and 5 losses in their last 10 matches, while macarthur sits at 5th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 4-1 win against Adelaide United. Craig Goodwin scored the first goal for Adelaide United in the 20th minute, but Apostolos Giannou got the equalizer for Macarthur in the 43rd minute But luckily in the 67th minute, they were able to complete the comback with a goal by Craig Noone. With 17 points in their last 10 matches Macarthur should be reasonably happy with their performance.
In their last match together, Macarthur won by a score of 2 to 1. Beka Mikeltadze struck first for Newcastle Jets in the 35th minute, then in the 48th minute, Craig Noone sent in a beautiful pass which was converted by Daniel De Silva Finally they completed the comback in the 84th minute on a goal by James Meredith to cap off a wild match.
Both Adrian Mariappa and Craig Noone have been the hottest scorers for Macarthur in the last five each having scored 2 goals each. Newcastle Jets’s most prolific scorer has been Beka Mikeltadze. The attacker has netted 3 goals over the last 5 matches.