Luke Brattan – 8

The midfielder had an immense second half. His first half was decent, but he took the reigns as the midfield master to guide City to the win. His range and weight of passing still holds up the “pass master” tags he earned at Brisbane Roar.

Nick Fitzgerald – 7

We saw his lateral thinking come to the fore in the wet conditions. His charging runs, dinky passes and ability to control the ball in tight areas is as impressive as any forward in the league. Sparked the equaliser with a world class cross that the Jet’s defence simply couldn’t defend cleanly.

Marcin Budzinski – 5

Made the ridiculous error which led to Newcastle’s opening goal, punting it all the way into his own penalty area. Aside from the mistake, helped on the counters but wasn’t an overly big presence and thus was taken off at half-time.

Ross McCormack – 6

Scored the penalty to equalise the game but was otherwise extremely quiet. He tended to come in a little deeper in the second half as City got on top in the game but didn’t have a huge impact in the conditions.

Bruce Kamau – 6

Kamau gave City the extra spurts of energy and speed they lacked from the first half (aside from Fitzgerald).

Tim Cahill – 5

Played the last 15 or so minutes but had limited impact.