Two goals in as many minutes from Tom Rojas has seen Melbourne Victory come away the winners over the Newcastle Jets.
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Final score
Melbourne Victory 2
Newcastle Jets 0
Melbourne Victory will look to add another win to their tally in this A-League season when they host the Newcastle Jets at AAMI Park on Saturday afternoon. Join The Roar for live scores and a live blog of the match, starting from 5:35pm (AEDT).
Victory have recorded three wins and a draw this year and find themselves in a middling fifth position on the A-League table, however, they’ve got an ace-in-the-hole in that they’ve played less games than other sides particularly due to last week’s postponed match that was to be played in Wellington.
A couple of quick wins when they get the chance to make up that ground could catapult them right into the upper echelon of the league, and coming up against the struggling Newcastle Jets today is a perfect opportunity to do that.
The Jets currently find themselves eighth on the A-League table – from seven matches played, they have just a single win, three draws and three losses for a total of six points.
That win came in the third week of the season when they had a dominant performance at home against the Brisbane Roar, winning 4-0. Since then however they’ve gone on a five-match winless streak, losing to Sydney, Wellington and Melbourne City in recent weeks before a draw with the Central Coast Mariners last time around.
The Victory have had some big wins in through the season, defeating Wellington Phoenix 6-1 and most recently the Western Sydney Wanderers 3-0, but couldn’t get over the form side of the League in Sydney FC when they met them a few weeks ago, losing 1-2.
Prediction
Over the balance of the season so far the Victory are clearly the better side of these two. The only concern is that with a fortnight since their last game, they may take a while to get into the groove again – and the Jets could use that opportunity to pounce. Still, Victory should win out.
Melbourne Victory to win 2-1.
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FULLTIME Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Victory claim 3points thanks to a Rojas double who continues his great scoring record against the Jets, Victory had the only real chance in what was a very slow first half. Berisha had a chance to make it 1-0 with the easiest of tap ins but somehow fluffed it. Not alot else happended in the first half apart from man of the match Troisi having a few shots on goal (ended the game with 9attempts). The 2nd half was alot more lively and it didnt take long for Victory to get on the board with a deflected free kick from Rojas leaving Duncan stranded. 2 Minutes later Rojas was on the scoresheet again after Newcastle gave the ball away cheaply leaving rojas with a 3on1 situation to calmly slot the ball past the keeper. Newcastle never looked like scoring today apart from a few long range attempts. Nabbout out with an injury really hurts them. Muscat will be happy to walk away with the 3points after having the week off but will not be overly thrilled with the performance.
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90' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 3 Minutes of stoppage time
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89' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Yellow Card Baro receives the card after his challenge on Hoole.
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88' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 CHANCE Great freekick whipped in by the jets. Acton misses the ball and hoffmans shot is cleared off the line by Donachie.
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83' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Nice bit of play between Geria and Berisha leads to the albanians shot going over the bar. 20attempts on goal for Victory now.
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81' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Cowburns shot is deflected forcing Acton into a save and getting newcastle a corner. Much more lively 2nd half Crowd: 18267
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80' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Substitution Brennan OFF Poljak ON
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79' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 CHANCE Best of the game for Newcastle with Hoole finding Brennan but his shot is wide.
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77' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 CHANCE Berisha with some fancy footwork to create space but his shot is straight at Duncan.
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76' Substitution Bozanic OFF Beister ON
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76' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Yellow Card Ma gets a card for his tackle on valeri.
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74' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 CHANCE Troisi with ANOTHER effort on goal which he puts wide again. His 9th attempt today
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72' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Substitsution Ansell OFF Donachie ON
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70' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 CHANCE Great long range effort from Clut forces Acton to push the ball away for a corner.
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65' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Yellow Card Hoole receives the card after FBK gets hacked again. Resulting free kick doesnt amount to much
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63' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Substiution Fyfe OFF Kantarovski ON
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60' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 STRIKE! Troisi with a long range shot which puts Duncan at full stretch for a great save.
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58' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Khalfallah with a left footed shot into duncans arms. Newcastle sitting back now
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56' Victory 2 vs Jets 0 Victory dominating the ball now
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53' Victory 0 vs Jets 0 GOAL! Disaster for Newcastle as Rojas strides into the penalty box to bury his 2nd within minutes. This could get ugly now