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Brisbane Roar stop over in the Hunter to meet the Newcastle Jets as they continue their pub crawl up the NSW coast, after last week accounting for the Mariners 1-0. Join us for live scores and commetnary from 5.00pm AEDT.
Form – Newcastle: LDDDW, Brisbane: WWLWW.
Two teams with contrasting starts to the season – Brisbane continuing on from their 2011/12 season with an impressive 10 goals in five games.
Newcastle, perennial not quite finalists, not quite cellar dwellers, have only scored three goals in five matches, and have looked to improve game by game, by round 27 they should be raring to go.
Newcastle have built slowly, however are starting to show signs why GVE shouldn’t be shown the door.
Plenty of young players in both squads – how good was Andrew Hoole’s pass to Adam Taggart last week?
Deft outside foot flick as if he’s Andres Iniesta or something. Not that Kwame Yeboah’s rocket was a shabby effort either.
After that good win in Adelaide, Craig Goodwin has been recalled to the senior squad after starting the first few games of the season.
Brisbane are five wins out of five and are controlling games and attacking with purpose. Title favourites, I reckon.
However, before they start dreaming of another balmy Sunday afternoon next year, they’ll have to account for Newcastle without Ivan Franjic, Matt Mckay (Socceroos duty), Shane Stefanutto, Besart Berisha, Liam Miller and George Lambardardis.
Take out Lambardardis and add Thomas Broich and that would be a short list of Brisbane’s best players.
However, they do have the welcome news of Jade North’s return, who’s headed south for the for his first game since injury.
Brisbane face a similar task to which they had week; playing a team undefeated in four, with an injury list that rips through their first 11 and they have to play on the NSW coast, which is nothing compared to the Queensland coast. Poor Brisbane.
Luckily, the Roar have a brilliant structure, which will allow for the youngsters to slip into their line up easier than other clubs.
Newcastle, have played some pretty good football recently, they deserved a win against the Mariners, and taught the masquerading Spanish a lesson in Australian football.
Emile Heskey is also 100 percent for the first time this year, it’s all coming up Milhouse.
Van Egmond has managed to create a young squad with some of the best A-League youngsters going around, with a pretty good brand of football.
They’re starting to look like Brisbane Roar a few years ago. Can they become the machine that the Roar monstered into?
The last time these teams played was back in February, the result was Newcastle Jets 0-0 Brisbane Roar.
Newcastle Jets are currently undefeated in their last four matches.
Brisbane Roar have gone two matches without conceding a goal.
Brisbane seem to be a few matches better prepared than Newcastle, not that the Jets will be easy beats.
It will be a good quality game, however I think Brisbane may just have a tactical and structural advantage.
Prediction: 0-1 Brisbane.
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