A-League Women: Canberra United beats Newcastle Jets 3-0 for second win of season

The tempo of the game was slow right off the bat, thanks to wet conditions at Viking Park.

And the Newcastle Jets paid the price, slumping to a 3-0 deficit at half-time as Canberra United bagged its second win of the season.

United head coach Vicki Linton said it was good to get the side's second win - their first at home - this season.

And heaped praise on her record-goal scoring striker.

"I don't know what you guys see but ... hopefully you do see it, the amount of work [Heyman] puts in is phenomenal and the data will back that up," she said.

"The amount of running she does, and she's always makes a run off the ball and she always comes to the ball and then makes another run. She's sensational in that position and as a captain."

The visitors were caught flat-footed during the second phase of a United corner, allowing Heyman to tussle her way through the defence in the box and find an unmarked Allira Toby to slot home in the 11^th minute.

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Both sides were without key figures, the Jets without Taren King, Sunny Franco, Marie Dlvik Markussen or Tara Andrews - with her replacement Jemma House going down early after colliding with United's goalkeeper Chloe Lincoln - and Canberra missing veteran striker Ash Sykes.

It was deja vu for the Jets during another Lauren Keir corner in the 29^th minute, after an Ally Haran header from deep found Heyman's head as the home side doubled its lead.

The second goal flattened the Jets' play even further, breathing more life into Canberra's.

Unhappy with just one goal to her name, Heyman went for the brace. The 33-year-old pounced on a bad touch from a Newcastle defender in first-half injury time, shook one sliding defender and again, tussled her way through to make it 3-0. It marked Heyman's 79^th goal in the competition.

Canberra's captain was on the hunt for her third in the second-half and came closest from a through ball over the top, leaving her one-on-one with Newcastle's goalkeeper Claire Coelho. The tight angle, however, saw her shot saved by Coelho's leg for a corner.

Jets head coach Ash Wilson said the second half was more of an open game, but her side did not utilise their strengths.

"We were probably pushing to try to go long, probably more than we should have," she said.

"We were trying to get those goals back and Canberra were in a position where they were able to even have a few people just staying up front, so it became a real massive game of transition.

"In the first 45 [minutes] we were putting them under some pressure, we had a lot of opportunities in some composed areas up front, but we gave them three moments to set pieces where we didn't deal with second phase play.

"And that was something that we'd spoken about, so for me that wasn't good enough, and a turnover in a bad area in build up and it costs us."

The win was an ideal 20^th birthday present for Hayley Taylor-Young, but there was some concern. The defender went down in the 77^th minute and had to be subbed off with an injury.

Newcastle looked dangerous at times but walked away without a clear-cut goal-scoring opportunity in its seventh winless fixture in a row.

Player management will be key for United as it looks to its second fixture in four days, against Brisbane Roar on the Gold Coast on Monday night.

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