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The Newcastle Jets stunned the Brisbane Roar, winning 4-0 at home.
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Final score
Newcastle Jets 4
Brisbane Roar 0
The Newcastle Jets will do battle with a Brisbane Roar outfit looking to launch off their confidence-boosting draw in the opening round, as they make the trip to Newcastle this afternoon. Catch all the live scores and highlights on The Roar from 5pm (AEDT).
Brisbane scored off the last play of the game in injury time against Melbourne Victory last week to snatch a competition point late from the jaws of defeat, after struggling for most of the contest.
The Jets, on the other hand, kicked off their campaign with a huge performance against defending champions Adelaide United, also collecting a single point with a one-all draw at home.
New coach Mark Jones kicked off his Jets career well last week, but the tough introduction will continue this week against the Roar, who are undefeated against Newcastle from their last six encounters.
To add to that, the Jets have only won one of their last seven games and held just one clean sheet from their last 17 in the A-League, coming off the back of a disastrous 2015/16 season.
Not to be deterred though, the Jets can take comfort in knowing that Brisbane has struggled away from home in recent times, going winless in their last five games on the road.
Brisbane won just three of 14 away matches last season and will be out to rectify their poor form away from Suncorp this season.
Team News
Plenty of changes and alterations on both sides of the park as the two coaches take extended squads to be shortened on matchday.
For the home side, Newcastle will be without Dan Mullen who went off during the second half last week with a knee injury and is waiting for scan results to know the extent, but he’s expected to miss up to three months.
Defender Jason Hoffman and striker Aleksandr Kokko will also miss out with calf and Achilles injuries respectively but are expected to return within the next two weeks.
Mateo Poljak and Morten Nordstrand come into the squad after missing the first week under a fitness cloud, while Mitch Cooper gets a promotion into the extended squad.
For the Roar, coach John Aloisi will be without skipper Matt McKay after the 33-year old was shown a red card during the draw against Victory last week.
Nathan Konstandopoulos, Nick D’Agostino and Mark Rodic have all been brought into the squad by Aloisi for this afternoon’s fixture.
Prediction
The Jets surprised a lot of people last week with their performance against Adelaide to take an early lead and hold the defending champs to a draw.
While probably not the toughest road trip in the A-League, Brisbane is still faced with an away game that causes some issues for them.
This one might be a sluggish affair and it will be hard to separate the two sides that are in very different stages at the moment.
If there was to be a winner, Newcastle could get the job done at home off some confident form, but I think this one will be a draw in a grinding contest.
1-1 draw
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