In a weekend match on Sunday Jan 1st, in week 10, Newcastle Jets and Sydney will play a match in Newcastle 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 23 degrees, a perfect day for football. Newcastle Jets is fresh off their 1-0 shutout win against Adelaide United. Jaushua Sotirio scored the first goal for Newcastle Jets in the 25th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster At the end of 90 a dissapointed Adelaide United couldn’t manage to score, and Newcastle Jets took the shutout win. Newcastle Jets is looking for direction having earned 13 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 10th placed Sydney, recorded a 0-3 loss against Macarthur. Bachana Arabuli struck first for Macarthur in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time on a feed from Craig Noone, then Ulises Dávila added another in the 71st minute In the end, Sydney was frustrated by Macarthur’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Macarthur ended the match with the shutout victory. Sydney is looking for direction having 3 win and 5 losses in their last 10 matches.
These two teams have not yet played each other this season. Last season Newcastle Jets won the head to head battle with 1 win and 1 draw.
Anthony Caceres and Adam Le Fondre are the top scorers for Sydney in the last 5 matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.. Newcastle Jets is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Jamieson and Beka Mikeltadze each only have 1 goal in their last five.