Newcastle Jets Perth Glory A-League Men match result, Digi Mart USA News (Perth, Australia): The Newcastle Jets’ horror start to the season has continued, with the reigning A-League Men premiers still winless across all competitions after falling 2-1 away to Perth Glory. Eliminated from the Australia Cup in the last-32 and defeated in all four of their Asian Champions League Elite fixtures, the Jets have now gone the entire opening month of their league campaign without a win.
A brace from Jaiden Kucharski at HBF Park on Saturday secured the result for Perth. Heading into the international break after five games in just a fortnight, the Jets will next host Kashiwa Reysol in the ACLE on November 24, with no A-League Men games until a December 12 trip to Melbourne Victory.
Coach Mark Milligan told Paramount+: “I can’t ask any more of them. The schedule has been difficult; a lot of travel this trip just to finish off a massive 14 days.
Our intent in terms of the way we tried to play from the beginning tonight was very, very good.”
Picked out by a neat pass from Sebastian Despotovski and given an angle on goal, Kucharski fired a laser into the top corner in the 39th minute, giving him goals in back-to-back games. He then doubled his haul three minutes into the second half, receiving a throw-in, turning, shaking off Jets skipper Max Burgess, and driving a low effort into the bottom corner.
Kucharski said: “I put a lot of focus on myself, to try and be one of those players that can make something happen every time we get the ball. I really pride myself on that.”
Kucharski’s goals ensured that Adam Griffiths’ side headed into the international break inside the top six. Glory goalkeeper Daniel Solsky also played a key role, producing a superb double save in the 23rd minute to first deny an Alex Grant header from a corner and then see off a point-blank effort from Patrick Wood.
The visitors had plenty of the ball in the second half as they pressed against Glory’s block, but their 92nd-minute breakthrough through Nikos Vergos came too late to spark a comeback. Milligan said: “When you’re in a result rut, it’s difficult to get out of it, (especially) because we’ve had so many games.
But look, we have a good five weeks without A-League games now, so plenty of time to work on it.”
Source: Australian Associated Press.
