{"id":189610,"date":"2025-10-04T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189610\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:07:08","slug":"follow-australia-cup-final-scores-results-odds-squads-and-start-time-from-the-lakeside-stadium-in-melbourne-heidelberg-alexander-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189610\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow Australia Cup Final scores, results, odds, squads and start time from the Lakeside Stadium in Melbourne. Heidelberg Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Newcastle Jets have won the Australia Cup, ending the fairytale run for Heidelberg United with a 3-1 win in extra time at a capacity Lakeside Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>This trophy is the Jets\u2019 first since they won the A-League championship in 2007-2008 and since then, they have only made the finals once.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jets star Max Burgess celebrates his goal.\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.243%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_26\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/93374cbe403b69f3e376a404f2621180c10f1557\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jets star Max Burgess celebrates his goal.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Lethlean gave the Bergers the lead in the opening minutes, but the Jets fought back with Max Burgess levelling the game.<\/p>\n<p>Neither side could score again in regular time but Jets substitute Oscar Fryer conjured a stunning strike in the first half of extra time to give the Jets a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Jets skipper Kosta Grozos and Bergers substitute Johnny Apostolopoulos were both shown red cards within a minute of each other in the second half of extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Jets substitute Ben Gibson extended the lead to 3-1 late in extra time.<\/p>\n<p>The win means former Socceroos captain Mark Milligan has claimed his first trophy as a coach.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oscar Fryer\u2019s goal broke the game open for Newcastle.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static.ffx.io\/images\/$zoom_0.104%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_0%2C$y_0\/t_crop_custom\/q_86%2Cf_auto\/8dafe9b9687539c3c2dc3e79ad47b5ef4a6a222c\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oscar Fryer\u2019s goal broke the game open for Newcastle.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Newcastle Jets have won the Australia Cup, ending the fairytale run for Heidelberg United with a 3-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-189610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}