{"id":5797,"date":"2026-05-06T08:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/5797\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T08:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:57:15","slug":"sydney-fc-v-newcastle-jets-semi-final-preview-match-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/5797\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney FC v Newcastle Jets: Semi-Final Preview, Match Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle Jets defender Joe Shaughnessy admits his side are primed for any kind of test Sydney FC throw at them ahead of this weekend\u2019s semi-final first leg at Allianz Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Having captured the Premiership crown on the penultimate weekend of the season the Jets earned the bye in Week One of the Finals Series and subsequently watched on as Sydney FC defeated Melbourne Victory to set up a two-legged semi-final showdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/isuzu-ute-a-league-men-tickets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR TICKETS TO THE ISUZU UTE A-LEAGUE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you can just tell from training that everyone\u2019s kind of upped it a gear,\u201d said Shaughnessy when speaking earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s switched on, everyone\u2019s buzzing to get involved, and, yeah, everyone\u2019s pushing each other to do better each day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>VOTE NOW: <a href=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/news\/isuzu-ute-a-league-dolan-warren-awards-voting-now-open-everything-you-need-to-know\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isuzu UTE A-League Dolan Warren Awards voting now open for 2025-26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Often labelled the \u2018Box Office Jets\u2019, Mark Milligan\u2019s side have been the Isuzu UTE A-League\u2019s great entertainers this season as they romped their way to the Premiership.<\/p>\n<p>However, in Sydney FC they face a side that\u2019s seemingly reinvigorated under new Head Coach Patrick Kisnorbo.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Blues are unbeaten since the Championship-winning coach took over at Sky Park, chalking up three draws and two wins from his five matches in charge, the latest of which came against bitter rivals Melbourne Victory in the Elimination Finals.<\/p>\n<p>MUST READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/aleagues.com.au\/news\/juan-mata-aleagues-future-discussed-download-melbourne-victory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Experts weigh in on the A-Leagues\u2019 big burning question<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Sydney FC have conceded just two goals during Kisnorbo\u2019s tenure but despite their defensive resilience, Shaughnessy believes his side have the tools to break open an airtight defence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I suppose that\u2019s something we\u2019ll just have to come up against,\u201d said the Irish defender who joined in the off-season from Scottish Premiership outfit Dundee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll have to break them down. I think a lot of the teams probably over the last, whatever, maybe six weeks that we\u2019ve played against, have kind of done that, try to shut up shop against us and try and frustrate us. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s just another challenge to try and break them down and crack them open. And, you know, we\u2019ve got whatever, 180 minutes to do that now. So it\u2019s yeah, something to look forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the form between these two sides it was the Sky Blues who took out the first meeting of the season 4-1 at McDonald Jones Stadium before the Jets then sealed back-to-back victories both at home and on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newcastle Jets defender Joe Shaughnessy admits his side are primed for any kind of test Sydney FC throw&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1264,1417,1418,4916,152,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-5797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sydney","8":"tag-a-league-men","9":"tag-a-leagues","10":"tag-almfeatured","11":"tag-finals26","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sydney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}