The Wanderers travelled to face Newcastle, increasingly under Markus Babbel's leadership beginning to show good form and goals, winning their last two matches out of three.

The visitors started brightly and with an energy about them, moving the ball around the park, linking up nicely in transition. Raul Llorente, delivering delicious balls into the area from the left-hand side and Bruce Kamau with his trademark pace supplying the goods from the right-hand side.

Oriol Riera always looking dangerous leading the line.

Newcastle Jets had their chances in the first-half, brilliant crosses by Ben Kantarovski and with Ronald Vargas trying to stamp his authority in the midfield by slipping in some nice through passes.

But it was the visitors who were rewarded for their work-rate and dominance, performance richly rewarded by a perfectly weighted cross from a free kick, deep in the left-hand side near the corner post.

It culminated in the first A-league goal from Rashid Mahazi, a delightful, gliding header into the back of the net, giving Glen Moss no chance.

My only question is, 'What was in those half-time oranges for the Jets?' Something special from Merrick's medicine cabinet? 

BEST

WONDER GOALS

Keanu Baccus' wonder strike on the 73rd minute to level it. 15 yards out with serious pace and power. Level 2-2. Right into the roof of the net, giving Glen Moss no chance of anything meaningful in an attempt the save it.

Just to give you a bit more spice to chew on tonight, the 80th minute saw 19-year-old Angus Thurgate's first goal in fourteen matches, beautiful placement, drilling the ball past the keeper, giving the Jets a 3-2 lead and the win.

What happened to the dominating away side who looked so comfortable right across the park? The vision of Markus Babbel shaking his head when the scores were 2-2, chewing his gum... one-word springs to mind but I don’t think I’ll be allowed to write it down.

WANDERERS' FORWARD LINE

You can arguably say the first half belong to WSW, using the width with extreme precision, Bruce Kamau, getting forward with his trade-mark pace and crosses, from the right-hand side you had Raul Llorente carbon copy like Kamau, causing the Jets all sorts of problems at the back.

Oriel Riera making himself big, the midfield controlling the passage of play, looked very comfortable when in possession, Mitchell Duke driving runs, Alexander Baumjohann just to name a few. The whole team looked the complete package.

MERRICK'S SCANT FINALS HOPES

Ernie Merrick's men can still mathematically, and with all the planets aligning, make the finals if they win all their remaining four fixtures.

The Scotsman said mid-week, lamenting that his side were beaten Grand finalist last season and now unable to make to the finals playoffs.

“When you’re in a situation of waiting for other teams to lose matches, I don’t think you’re in a good place," he said.

“I can’t see anyone losing that many games, two more games than us, so I don’t think we’re going to make the finals and we’re very disappointed by that.

“We feel as though we have let the fans down.”

NEWCASTLE'S SUBS

Inspired Newcastle Jets substitution from the Scotsmen, of Kaine Sheppard and Angus Thurgate, was a major fact and impact Ernie was looking for from his chargers. Boy, they did not disappoint, injection of pace, getting between the lines, linking up well with O’Donovan, Daniel Georgievski came alive, Dimi Petratos creating and find more space to operate in.

WORST

WANDERERS' ENERGY

WSW as a unit couldn’t handle the energy from the home side, they looked shaky and without ideas for it was the Jets who turned the tables.

They paid the price for being too casual in the second half as the Jets raised their game ten-fold, running out winners 3-2, after they looked well beaten in the first-half.

NEWCASTLE"S FIRST HALF

For Newcastle, their first-half performance and defence looked all over the place, maybe a better side would have punished the home side with more than one goal at the break. They were lucky that Roy O’Donovan changed the face of the game with a fantastic finish and Vedran Janjetovic hopelessly drive to his right.

In a highlight, Daniel Georgievski was like a man possessed in the second half, blistering runs down the right-hand side, swinging wonderful crosses, brilliant energy, far cry from his first-half performance.