Jets break duck with win over Reds

Mark Birighitti of the Jets comes down hard after colliding with Bruce Djite. Source: Morne de Klerk / Getty Images

ADELAIDE United expected a second win of the season, instead it turned into a disastrous loss when Newcastle Jets walked away with maximum points in a shock 2-1 win at Coopers Stadium on Saturday.

Jets hadn't won an A-League clash since February but it appeared that Adelaide was the side that had forgotten how to win after last claiming a 3-1 victory over Perth Glory at home in the opening round.

Jets Dutch import Kew Jalien scored his first A-League goal in the first half before Adam Taggart embarrassed Adelaide after the Reds again won all the statistics except the one most important - the scoreboard.

Fabio Ferreira gave Adelaide hope of making a comeback 19 minutes before time, nodding the ball home from a neat Jeronimo Neumann cross after English superstar Emile Heskey made his season debut off the bench 60 seconds earlier.

To make matters worse, Nigel Boogaard equalled Kevin Muscat's record for A-League red cards when he was sent off for a challenge on Heskey in the 90th minute.

But Adelaide, true to coach Josep Gomabu's word, again delivered a possession-based attacking game.

Errors, however, are turning the "under construction'' side into a demolition job after Jets earlier picked off the Reds with ease.

The lack of game basics - the simple stuff - is costing Adelaide badly as former Reds midfielder Nathan Burns' corner in the 43rd minute proved that United does have alarming concentration lapses.

Scott Neville outjumping Jon McKain for a header from Burns' corner caused all sorts of problems.

When Zullo could only clear the headed ball with his shins off the line, Jaliens scored from the rebound after his Reds marker was nowhere to be found.

That goal upset some members of the crowd.

For the first time this season Reds fans jeered Adelaide's first half performance, despite being another entertaining chapter in the history of Gombau.

It was the Spaniard's tiki-taka taking on Jets coach Gary van Egmond's Australian version as both sides traded first half attacking forays.

Marcelo Carrusca had Adelaide's first shot on target inside eight minutes but former Reds gloveman Mark Birighitti clutched the ball safely.

But Jets sounded its first warning a minute later when Taggart's 5m free and meek header from a Josh Brillante cross did not test Adelaide skipper Eugene Galekovic's gloves or his agility.

Adelaide right back Tarek Elrich - a Jets legend with 136 games after spending the first six A-League years with the club - made a defining save on the line to take the ball away from Burns' boot after a Taggart and Brillante combination.

Four minutes later Elrich - playing his best game for Adelaide since signing from Western Sydney Wanderers this year - was thwarted by a Birighitti save.

But just seconds later Boogaard made another save on the line as the Reds were again exposed before Taggart could tuck the ball into the net from a Brillante header.

Carrusca then became a provider with a neat touch to Neumann which split the Jets defence but Birighitti's big gloves palmed the Argentine's 8m shot high in the air before the Perth-born keeper clutched the rebound.

Gombau made a change at half-time, which perhaps balanced the fixture in midfield, when Osama Malik had an early shower for Steven Lustica.

Lustica joined Carrusca as a no. 8 while Isaias dropped effectively back into a holder's midfield role.

But the start of the second half was a nightmare as Adelaide paid the ultimate price for losing a ball in midfield.

The Jets outnumbered Adelaide when Andrew Hoole side-stepped McKain's lunging tackle and Taggart's speed was no match for Boogaard as he chipped a 10m ball into the back of the net over the body of Galekovic.

But the biggest cheer of the match was reserved for long-serving Reds Cassio and Bruce Djite.

The pair made their season debuts for McKain and Zullo.

Isaias was shifted from holder to the stopper's role in a 3-4-3 formation change as Elrich and Cassio pushed high from their full back roles.

A-LEAGUE ROUND SIX

NEWCASTLE JETS 2 (Kew Jaliens 43m, Adam Taggart 52m) defeated ADELAIDE UNITED 1 (Fabio Ferriera 71m)at Coopers Stadium. Referee: Strebre Delovski. Crowd: 10,244.

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