Reds defeat Jets in spicy clash

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ADELAIDE United can start thinking about finals football after marking its final game of the year with a timely 1-0 victory over Newcastle Jets at Coopers Stadium on Sunday.

The win saw Adelaide take seven points from its last three games with United now three points adrift of sixth placed Central Coast before the Mariners complete the round at home on New Year's Eve against Perth Glory.

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Another win at home - Adelaide faces Sydney FC at Coopers Stadium on Friday - will see the Reds edge closer to the top six.

It was by far Adelaide's best opening 45 minutes of the season as the partisan holiday crowd - 10,778 - enjoyed every second of the opening stanza.

But in the second half Adelaide was pegged back in its own half as Jets prodded for an equaliser which never eventuated.

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Victory, however, was deserved as man-of-the-match Sergio Cirio ran rampant in midfield.

The Jets failed to control the Spaniard's surging forward runs and it was only a matter of time before the Reds broke Newcastle's last lines.

Cirio started the move in the 25th minute when he found Jeronimo Neumann with a perfect 25m diagonal ball.

Marcelo Carrusca protests to referee Chris Beath on another incident with Ruben Zadkovich. Source: News Limited

The Argentine's attempted cross was intercepted by former Adelaide gloveman Mark Birighitti before a desperate Jets clearance fell to the feet of Bruce Djite.

The striker was beneficiary of all the good work built by Cirio when he slammed a 6m loose ball into the back of the net.

It was Djite's ninth goal in 40 appearances since re-signing for the Reds in 2011.

Cirio should have then made it 2-0 and rightfully ending the game as a hero four minutes from time.

When substitute Awer Mabil's spectacular step overs allowed the teenager room to provide a neat cross the Spanish pocket rocket's first half V8 engine was spent with his meek shot an easy save for Birighitti.

United coach Josep Gombau gives instructions from the sidelines. Source: News Limited

But a second Adelaide goal nearly arrived when Steven Lusctica's 25m effort then rattled both posts after Birighitti's got a finger tip onto the pile driver.

With Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou in the stands scouting for potential FIFA World Cup talent for the June tournament in Brazil next year he wouldn't have been disappointed with a few international hopefuls performing well at Hindmarsh yesterday.

ndrew Hoole on the attack with Michael Zullo coming in. Source: News Limited

And with Adelaide again showing no signs of playing the strict 'Barcelona style' for the third week in succession the Reds found holes in the Jets defence with surging long balls through

Gombau lambasted the Jets for being too physical at Coopers Stadium.

Adelaide lost Marcelo Carrusca to heavy bruising during the clash after the Argentine was first battered by a clumsy Taylor Regan challenge in the 36th minute of the clash.

Carrusca was forced off in the 69th minute.

Marcelo Carrusca goes down again in a clash with Ruben Zadkovich. Source: News Limited

"We need to protect the players we need to protect the football people,'' Gombau said.

"They make a lot of fouls and they make one foul in the first half that can be red (card).

"The referee must protect the players if not they make fouls, fouls, fouls."

Jets coach Gary van Egmond claimed Regan was lucky to survive with just a yellow card but said Adelaide gave as good as it got during the clash.

Referee Chris Beath issue 16 free kicks to United and 13 to Jets in a game which produced seven yellow cards.

"I think there were some poor challenges from both sides,'' van Egmond said.

"The one that Carrusca did on Ruben (Zadkovich), although he (Zadkovich) didn't roll around 15 times, was a poor challenge.

"So I think it's fair to say that both sides were very physical out there and it I remember rightly last time we played (round 5) it was one of the Adelaide players that got sent off.

"It's a physical game it's the nature of the sport."

The Jets emerged from the break revitalised as Adelaide was dropping deeper and using counter attacking football to try and bust Newcastle's defenders.

But despite the Reds sitting on the edge of its own box a route one Jets ball from stopper Regan nearly paid dividends.

Prolific Jets goalscorer Adam Taggart tried flicking the bouncing ball past the advancing Galekovic but the gloveman expertly read the move and averted the danger with a timely interception.

Marcelo Carrusca of Adelaide United lies injured after a tackle while Josep Gombau fumes. Source: Getty Images

But as the Reds legs were tiring Jets coach Gary van Egmond sent on his big striker Emile Heskey in the 66th minute, three minutes before a battered Carrusca ended his shift.

As Jets found some holes in Adelaide's tiring defence poor finishing cost the away side dearly.

A lack of composure in front of goal allowed Adelaide off the hook.

Josh Brillante spurned an opportunity in the 75th minute when he found space on the left before Taggart smacked a loose ball over the bar from 10m after Adelaide couldn't clear a corner.

Osama Malik was then forced to the bench 14 minutes before time when failed to recover from a clash of heads with Regan just four minutes earlier inside the Jets penalty box.

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