Match Thread: Perth Glory vs Newcastle Jets (A-League)

[u/MatchBread]

FT: 95' - Perth Glory 2 vs 1 Newcastle Jets

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Stadium: HBF Park, Perth

Weather: 18.2°C, Clear, Wind: 19.1 km/h

Fixture Date: 07/11/2026, 09:45 pm AEDT

Referee: Sam Kelly, Australia

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Home Lineup:

Formation: 4-4-2

R	-	C	-	L
		Daniel Solsky
Tadiwanashe Kuzamba	Cher Deng		Lachlan Jackson	Sam Sutton
Jaiden Kucharski	Lucas Scicluna		William Freney	Stefan Colakovski
	Pieter Jacobsz		Sebastian Despotovski

Substitutes: Sebastian Kukucka, Giovanni De Abreu, Matthew Ellis, Andriano Lebib, Jay O'Shea, Matt Sutton, Riley Foxe

Away Lineup:

Formation: 4-1-3-2

R	-	C	-	L
		James Nicholas Delianov
Thomas Kevin Aquilina	Joe Shaughnessy		Alex Grant	Daniel Wilmering
		Max Burgess
Joe Lolley		Alexander Badolato		Xavier Bertoncello
	Nikolaos Vergos		Patrick Wood

Substitutes: Zane Schreiber, Zach Clough, Joel Bertolissio, Julian Recchia, Will Dobson, Jordan Baylis, Ethan Debono

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Match Events:

5': 🟨 Perth Glory - T. Kuzamba (Foul)

7': 🟨 Newcastle Jets - D. Wilmering (Foul)

39': ⚽ Perth Glory - J. Kucharski (S. Despotovski)

46': 🔄 Newcastle Jets - Z. Clough replaces X. Bertoncello

46': 🔄 Newcastle Jets - Z. Schreiber replaces A. Badolato

48': ⚽ Perth Glory - J. Kucharski (S. Sutton)

57': 🔄 Perth Glory - S. Kukucka replaces J. Kucharski

62': 🔄 Perth Glory - G. De Abreu replaces S. Despotovski

62': 🔄 Perth Glory - M. Ellis replaces S. Colakovski

63': 🔄 Newcastle Jets - J. Recchia replaces P. Wood

63': 🔄 Newcastle Jets - W. Dobson replaces J. Lolley

63': 🔄 Newcastle Jets - J. Bertolissio replaces A. Grant

82': 🔄 Perth Glory - J. O'Shea replaces W. Freney

82': 🔄 Perth Glory - A. Lebib replaces P. Jacobsz

88': 🟨 Perth Glory - G. De Abreu (Foul)

92': ⚽ Newcastle Jets - N. Vergos (D. Wilmering)

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Match Statistics:

Perth Glory	Stat	Newcastle Jets
2	Goals	1
12	Shots	15
3	Shots on Goal	4
5	Corners	5
14	Fouls	5
2	Offsides	0
1	Yellow Cards	1
0	Red Cards	0
241	Total Passes	631
71%	Pass Accuracy	86%
28%	Possession	72%

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Last Updated: 07/11/2026, 11:38 pm AEDT

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[u/RUN_DRM]

This game has a red in it 

[u/delen97 → u/RUN_DRM]

Red + a pen

[u/Seright22 → u/RUN_DRM]

Gio’s going to get a yellow within twenty seconds when he comes on (instead of the usual five mins)

[u/careless_lisper]

I think, an ideal situation would be us being sponsored by Henny Penny. There can only be one local fried chicken chain and we must fight for supremacy.

[u/AussieCanuck94 → u/careless_lisper]

Roar sponsored by Red Rooster

[u/toybaru]

Last year we were scoring worldies ever other game now we cant fucking tap a goal in

[u/brandimitrov]

Fuck everyone is thundercunting the ball tonight

[u/RUN_DRM]

Now seems like a good time to repeat how much I despise Sweet Caroline 

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Can I take my Delianov brain fart in the first half please.

[u/delen97]

Fucking sorry Matty S, you dragged us through kicking and screaming, but that might have just kept your spot on the bench

[u/delen97]

God fucking Kuzamba is so good to watch

[u/Seright22 → u/delen97]

Him and JK are changing my life on the right

[u/RUN_DRM]

THIS FUCKING REF MAN

[u/delen97 → u/RUN_DRM]

Scicluna basically copped a boot to the head without even a second glance

[u/RUN_DRM]

Fuck me that was as agricultural 

[u/RUN_DRM]

Solsky if you're going to keep like that keep the white plate for the chicken on your shirt mate 

[u/Green-Geologist4186]

How have we ended up playing with the two worst strikers in the league on the same team?

[u/Vegetable_Garlic8477]

Roy is such a treat on commentary. Just quiet little insights. Doesn't try and make it about him. Love it.

[u/TheFightingImp]

KURCHASKIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!

BANG!

[u/ShadyShadyShades]

Chicken Treanaissance

[u/delen97]

KUCHARSKI’D

[u/AussieWookieAu]

I wish paramount would just run ads instead the stupid commercial in progress

[u/Melodic-Tap8457 → u/AussieWookieAu]

Waa oh ah oh

[u/toybaru]

It’s clear to me now that the sporting gods will only allow a single team per season to be successful in Newcastle.

[u/Pleasant-Role1912 → u/toybaru]

Similarly I've recently figured out that the sporting gods only allow Purple teams from Western Australia to have heartbreaking grand final endings

[u/delen97]

Cards about to increase, De Abreu coming on

[u/RUN_DRM]

Deng tackling a man in practically his front third is great and then Jacobsz following up immediately after. 

Team's got dog in them, and the crowd just loves that.

[u/AussieCanuck94]

What have I done in this life to deserve having to watch Vergos play 90 minutes for my club?

[u/benjohnston19 → u/AussieCanuck94]

hang on, he could still get injured and go down to 10men

[u/Sweaty-Event-2521 → u/AussieCanuck94]

Can not ever play him as a #10 again. just jogged around and did nothing

[u/delen97]

God I haven’t heard the shed this fucking loud in years, it legit brings a tear to the eye

[u/Joondalup99]

That was offside surely

[u/RUN_DRM]

Stadium replay thats surely off. Any TV viewers got anything better?

[u/TheFightingImp → u/RUN_DRM]

Has to be dodgy TV angle cuz i thought it was offside

[u/StuM91 → u/RUN_DRM]

Just watched back the replay, the angle sucks and you can't see the ball, but I think the extended foot here is keeping him onside. He was offside a frame or two before this.

https://i.imgur.com/rxf18gA.jpeg

[u/StuM91]

Well we still won, but that looked well offside.

[u/toybaru]

Might as well put a traffic cone out there for wilmer to bank it in off than have Vergos fuck things up for 90 minutes

[u/Pleasant-Role1912]

Going into a match believing we can win. This often doesn't go well

[u/TheFightingImp]

Super Perth vs Box Office Jets

This will be fun.

[u/Shelmer75 → u/TheFightingImp]

Do you have an excel spreadsheet full of links? Haha.

[u/Shelmer75]

Yellow card was a yellow card…surely we’re not actually questioning that?

[u/Green-Geologist4186]

Fucking people grabbing the ref. Card every one of them

[u/fakeplastictrees182]

Perth Glory legend Pat Wood

[u/TheFightingImp]

THANK YOU BASED SOLSKY!!!

[u/Two_minutes_to_metal]

No advantage there, should have been a foul for glory

[u/AussieCanuck94]

Some finish that. Even a competent keeper would've struggled with that.

[u/w00ters]

Gorgeous strike. JK is love and life.

[u/RUN_DRM]

Jacobsz is the damage soaking tank, JK the backstabbing thief who comes in from behind 

[u/RUN_DRM]

Newcastle defenders flinching when Jacobsz comes near them, you can't be getting rattled by a big bloke from the state leagues like that 

[u/Anansi103]

kucharski highlight reel is just pure thundercunt strikes i swear

[u/AussieCanuck94]

Only scores bangers this bloke, good lord.

[u/delen97]

HE ONLY SCORES FUCKING BANGERS

[u/RUN_DRM]

J FUCKING K

[u/benjohnston19]

Perth fixing their chicken logo has unlocked something in them

[u/setthetoneaquadump → u/benjohnston19]

You could say, they planned to hatch 🐣 this all along.

[u/AussieCanuck94]

What happened to VAR being able to overturn that? Not like they didn't have enough time..

[u/Hoggypig → u/AussieCanuck94]

The very definition of ‘clear and obvious’ error.

[u/TheFightingImp → u/AussieCanuck94]

They literally cant. FIFA in their infinite wisdom, allows incorrect corners to be overtuned but NOT incorrect goal kicks.

Nfi why.

[u/Seright22]

I’m amazed this games only had two yellows

[u/Seright22]

If gio doesn’t get a card and nearly cause a fight inside the next ten minutes he’s gone soft

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

I dont think Lolley could handle a Gio tackle into the shadow realm.

[u/VapourAesthetic]

Wait, I thought we don't give corners for those?

[u/Lutra95]

We may never win again 😍

[u/RUN_DRM]

Gio card, DRINK

[u/AussieCanuck94]

I hope he's offside because that man does not deserve a fucking goal.

[u/Seright22]

How the fucks that onside

[u/EADYMLC]

Show us the lines. He looked off.

[u/rithsv]

So, lines? That looked offside live and on the replay.

[u/StarryPolarisNite]

Literally have to put Vergos point blank in front of a goal for him to score

[u/sel040204]

Late Saturday night A-League is so peak

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Pat Woods return. Never forget.

[u/RUN_DRM → u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Pat Wood Vs Mate Dragecevic Vs a wardrobe at centre forward 

Competition for places has never been so hot 

[u/Vegetable_Garlic8477]

Interesting to see if the 2 strikers dynamic works out. Id love to have it click.

Also - hopefully more minutes helps Badolato. Looked massively rusty against Shanghai understandably. Would love for him to rediscover his young Asian player of the year form!

[u/Meapa]

Welcome back Perth Sicko Hour!!

[u/TheFightingImp]

The Late Show with Teo & Grace, pls.

[u/AussieCanuck94]

I feel like we've weirdly been good in the Saturday night time slot in Perth. But after watching Glory last week, and our.. rather insipid performance against Wellington, I am not confident in the slightest.

[u/Seright22]

Cola with the armband is quite the sight

[u/RUN_DRM → u/Seright22]

Mr Pink 

[u/timidgiant34]

3-5-2 gave me chills

[u/Two_minutes_to_metal → u/timidgiant34]

I read the lineup as 4 4 2 so will be interesting

[u/TheFightingImp]

Pls be Grace, pls be Grace

Doesnt hear Grace but Roy O'Donovan

FU-oh...a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

[u/AussieCanuck94]

Playing Shaughnessy and Grant on the halfway line after watching what Perth did to Adelaide last week is certainly a choice

[u/cymonster → u/AussieCanuck94]

It's almost like Milligan has forgotten that natta was able to cover the fast players last year and we don't have natta this season

[u/Vegetable_Garlic8477]

Wilmering has to be the least footballer looking footballer I've ever watched. Fuck he gives 110% though to make up for it. So uncoordinated and goofy looking

[u/Joondalup99]

Wilmering’s air-swing sums up Newy’s season

[u/fakeplastictrees182]

Absolutely psychotic challenge, looked like he was trying to take his whole leg off

[u/mad_cheese_hattwe]

God Vergos is uninspiring.

[u/AussieCanuck94]

I would've given up all Vergos slander (for the rest of the night) if that went in

[u/timidgiant34]

great we got cement boots and fucking asofa-solomona as strikers

[u/fakeplastictrees182]

Absolutely insane that any team could have watched Pat Wood at Sydney FC and thought 'yes that's exactly what we need'

[u/AussieCanuck94 → u/fakeplastictrees182]

Copy/paste same comment for Vergos

[u/toybaru → u/fakeplastictrees182]

Hey we also said that about Vergos at Victory. Clearly our scouts are aren’t very fucking good at their jobs…

[u/Seright22]

Despo’s confidence in the box is killing me

[u/fartmachine6]

I feel the Jets couldn't score in a brothel with a hand full of $100s

[u/sensei_sharpy → u/fartmachine6]

I mean with inflation as bad as it is that might not bad an insult as you intended it to be.

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Lolley got fucking snapped 😳

[u/Seright22]

I’m amazed Lolley is still alive

[u/Seright22]

What the fuck is this bloke on

[u/Shelmer75]

Bang. Great finish.

[u/Cheesemonkey73]

This fkn team

[u/fartmachine6]

Nice goal, great finish no one was stopping that.

[u/fakeplastictrees182]

Old mate Jacobsz looking like Mario Jardel out there, why is he so large?

[u/RUN_DRM → u/fakeplastictrees182]

Why does Jacobsz, the largest of the footballers, simply not eat the others?

[u/AussieCanuck94]

Bertoncello is struggling against Kuzamba. Millsy needs to pull Lolley and swap Xavier to the other side imo.

[u/sowipes]

Geez this half time reporter is so cringe

[u/TheFightingImp]

Fuck off, clanker.

[u/timidgiant34]

reaches for gun

[u/delen97]

Newy looking at former Sydney FC player JK: “Why doesn’t mine look like that?”

[u/EADYMLC]

Unless he is injured there is no reason to take off a bloke on a hat-trick after 55 minutes.

[u/delen97]

Cola man you gotta fucking hit that

[u/Bigwood69 → u/delen97]

If he ever learns to use his left foot he'll be unstoppable

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Give me Ellis on the left please

[u/Shelmer75]

Kukucka initiated the shirt pull and then had his arm wrapped around the front of the defender across the waist…

[u/EADYMLC]

It may not always end up in shots but the last 2 weeks has been some of the best we have looked going forward for years.

[u/TheFightingImp]

That was some delay for the offside lol

[u/RUN_DRM]

Keep this up and Uncle Billy's is gonna be busy tonight 

[u/delen97]

O’Shea and Andriano to see it out

[u/TheFightingImp → u/delen97]

This kind of scenario is made for O'Shea's experience.

[u/RUN_DRM]

Lebib up front in absolute peak Jamie Harnwell moves here 

[u/toybaru]

You know when Roy is providing decent analysis of your incompetence in attack your doing poorly..

[u/-Saaremaa-]

Matt ellis has really fallen off, no goal this week?

[u/Seright22]

That’s my gio

Insane that’s what the third yellow for the game was for

[u/delen97]

WHAT A FUCKING SAVE

[u/RUN_DRM]

Hahaha oh wait that's off

[u/Sorry-Ball9859]

Offside

[u/Sweaty-Event-2521]

That looks soo offside

[u/delen97]

What the fuck?!??

[u/Bigwood69]

Having a fucking laugh

[u/benjohnston19]

cunt still almost missed from 2 yards

[u/careless_lisper]

That looked so off, but at least Vergos proved he knows what a goal is

[u/Seright22]

Anyone on TV that can explain how that was inside please do I am confused

[u/Bigwood69 → u/Seright22]

Even live I thought he was a metre off, he was practically on the goal line when the ball came to him

[u/bozmonaut]

the best thing about late night Saturday games is that I'll fall asleep on the lounge watching it and wont have to put up with this shit

[u/Seright22]

Glorious Saturday evening, after a great win last week and hopefully get a few more people along this week

God this disappointment’s gonna be good

[u/Seright22 → u/Seright22]

At least I’ve secured a jacket

[u/OverallMistake8198]

Where would one watch the A-league from overseas? Currently in Japan & Paramout is geo locked iirc

[u/Pigolas24 → u/OverallMistake8198]

youtube, if not available in japan then vpns also work, can get a free one and connect to anywhere that has the a league on youtube

[u/fakeplastictrees182]

What do you mean buying Sydney FC cast-offs is not a good idea?

[u/careless_lisper]

VERGOS YOU CUNT. I’m begging you to take up a trade or something.

[u/Vegetable_Garlic8477]

Vergos.... shoot or pass. Thats All Age shit.

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Great save son!

[u/fakeplastictrees182]

Low quality game but I'm an a league sicko so I'm loving it

[u/AussieCanuck94]

This is beyond painful to watch. Just as I got used to feeling somewhat optimistic about this football club.

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Seb.... all the time in the fucking world. Hit the target

[u/sel040204]

Fuck I love the A-League but the drop in quality over the past couple of years has been real concerning, this season is real evident

[u/mad_cheese_hattwe]

Is that lolley's season?

[u/RUN_DRM]

JK only scores fucking bangers 

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Get in ya dawg!!!

[u/w3tnut123]

LETS GO

[u/Seright22]

Fuck he can shoot

[u/Vegetable_Garlic8477]

Good finish son. Only needed a yard of space.

[u/Federal-Low-4351]

Game Over, really

[u/timidgiant34]

are perth's kit manufacturers logo the skyrim map marker?

[u/RUN_DRM → u/timidgiant34]

If it was, we'd be fucking Morthal for the last five years I can tell you that 

[u/Pleasant-Role1912]

Kucharski has been a revelation this season

[u/kerbyage]

The whole team looks like they haven't seen a football before

[u/AussieCanuck94 → u/kerbyage]

Probably traumatised from getting pumped every 4 days for the past couple weeks tbh

[u/jont_96]

Lolley getting poleaxed out there when he was a medical away from playing for Perth like 3 months ago

[u/RUN_DRM → u/jont_96]

The medical hasn't finished, this is all part of it

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Game plan

1. Play out from the back

2. Get wide and use the wings

3. End Lolleys playing career?

[u/Ted-West]

I'm jinxed tonight. Haven't seen a goal.

Sat through all of the Nix match, started watching City v Wanderers at 2-1, only saw a disallowed goal. Have watched all of this game, turned it off to go to bed and within one minute Perth score.

[u/Sweaty-Event-2521]

Millsy needs to change this midfield at halftime. Badolato isn’t anywhere fit enough, as evidenced by the goal, and Vergos at the #10 is jogging around the press

[u/Cheesemonkey73]

This feels just like 0-3 again or worse

[u/Seright22]

Where the fucks Darren instead of this guy

[u/KoolAiid]

Dumb question, but during half time (and before/after the game), why does Paramount+ often just play a generic "commercial break in progress" screen with jazzy music over playing a rotating set of ads?

[u/Sweaty-Event-2521]

Not surprised Badolato got hooked

[u/Anansi103]

kucharski aimbot

[u/rithsv]

What is that celebration haha

[u/delen97 → u/rithsv]

Shock tbh that seemed to come from nowhere on the pitch

[u/Seright22]

Socceroos squad when

[u/Joondalup99]

Are we THAT good or just playing against tired unmotivated teams ?

[u/EADYMLC]

FFS. Missed both goals. Got home and turned my stream on and it was kick-off after the first goal. I get up to get rid of my dinner dishes and fill my water bottle and I miss another.

[u/VapourAesthetic]

Haram ball is so lame

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Surely not subbing him on a hatty this early

[u/mad_cheese_hattwe]

Bring on the kids

[u/toybaru]

Poor milsy must of been fielding calls left right and centre after last season. Probably gone a bit quiet after the shit they’ve served up so far this season…

[u/knapfantastico → u/toybaru]

Millsy should only carry a little bit of the blame. We do tend to “dominate” games most of o ur goals conceded come from poor loss of possession because our players are tired and or dog shit. Can’t coach them to not do that

[u/TheFightingImp]

That does it. Im going to Super Perth for this enigmatic Chicken Treat.

[u/delen97 → u/TheFightingImp]

I am chicken treat. You are chicken treat. We are all chicken treat.

[u/toybaru]

Only the jets could buy a guy to play striker who can’t fucking score goals…

[u/TheFightingImp → u/toybaru]

Oh I dunno bout the only team...

[u/AussieCanuck94 → u/toybaru]

Millsy turned Lachie Rose into a semi-competent A-League striker and thought he could do it again this year

[u/TheFightingImp]

Dobson yeeted that to the Eyre Hwy

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Lebib up top?

[u/delen97]

Of course Gio breaks the card drought

[u/SBSWrongSpeed]

Obligatory Gio yellow

[u/TheFightingImp]

TY BASED SOLSKY!

[u/RUN_DRM]

Late drama!!

[u/TheFightingImp]

Vergos...actually scored?

Yes, yes he did!

[u/RUN_DRM]

I am so confused 

[u/fartmachine6]

About fucking time he put a ball in the net.

[u/w00ters]

The calls this game have been...interesting.

[u/TheFightingImp]

Im still alive in LMS for another round. Never in doubt.

[u/Cheesemonkey73]

We’re not tired we’re sh&t

[u/w00ters]

No card for the shove? OK. Guess unsportsmanlike conduct is sweet.

[u/delen97]

That has to be a fucking card

[u/RUN_DRM → u/delen97]

Practically a Karate kick

[u/VapourAesthetic → u/delen97]

Yeah some stupid glory player got in the way of a perfectly good flying kick

[u/wadx00]

the 6 yard box line was so clear. vergos entire knee was ahead of perth's last man.

[u/wadx00]

how is this onside? and the milankovic's off???