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A-League In Focus – Melbourne City vs Newcastle Jets Preview
When? Thursday 25th January, 08:50 (UK)
Where? AAMI Park
What channel is it on? BT Sport 1
Are tickets still available?
Melbourne City & Newcastle Jets - http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=MCITY1818
Where can I stream the match? BT Sport subscribers can stream the match online via the BT Sport website
HEAD-TO-HEAD
Last five meetings: Melbourne City W3, Newcastle Jets W2
A-League meetings: Melbourne City W10, Newcastle Jets W9, D3
MELBOURNE CITY
Predicted line-up: Bouzanis; Muscat, Jakobsen, Delbridge, Jamieson; Malik, Brattan; Vidosic, Budzinski, Fitzgerald; McCormack
Unavailable: Fornaroli (Injured), Carrusca (Rested), Schenkeveld (Suspended), Atkinson (Injured), La Rocca (Out of favour)
Doubtful:
NEWCASTLE JETS
Predicted line-up: Duncan; Georgievski, Topor-Stanley, Boogaard, Vujica; Ugarkovic, Kantarovski; Hoffman, D. Petratos, Rodriguez; Nabbout
Unavailable: Vargas (Injured), O'Donovan (Injured)
Doubtful:
PREDICTION
Second place plays host to third this weekend in the A-League as Melbourne City take on the Newcastle Jets. City are currently four points behind the Jets but are unbeaten in their last four outings and with Ernie Merrick’s men visiting them off the back of a defeat, Warren Joyce will be confident of closing the gap between the two teams come full time.
MEMORABLE MEETING
March of last year saw the two sides face off in Melbourne and the Jets would have a long flight home after being dealt a crushing 4-0 away defeat. The evergreen Tim Cahill opened the scoring for City as early as the 12th minute and from there they never looked back as they eased to a comprehensive win.
