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Hummet, who hit Gamba’s winner in the final of the 2025/26 AFC Champions League Two, made the difference in the 73rd minute, netting three minutes after his introduction while fellow substitute Welton Felipe scored his side’s third with four minutes remaining.
Nikolaos Vergos had given Newcastle the lead in the 32nd minute with a heavily deflected effort before Yusei Toshida levelled with a perfectly placed header five minutes before the interval.
Toshida had caused the Newcastle defence problems in the opening exchanges, shooting wide in eighth minute before appearing to put the visitors ahead three minutes later, only to be pulled back for a narrow offside call.
James Delianov then denied the Gamba Osaka forward with a fine reaction save on the quarter-hour mark after the ball was deflected into his path eight yards from goal, the keeper throwing himself to his right to push the shot to safety.
But it was the home side that took the lead in the 32nd minute, aided by a slice of good fortune.
Xavier Bertoncello fed the ball into Vergos from the edge of the penalty area and the former Melbourne Victory forward turned to shoot, seeing his deflected right-foot effort loop into the air and beat Jun Ichimori.
With five minutes left in the half, however, Gamba Osaka were level and it was Toshida who equalised. Former Newcastle winger Eli Adams delivered an inviting in-swinging cross from the right that Toshida met with a header that arced over the stranded Delianov.
MD2: Newcastle Jets FC (AUS) v Gamba Osaka (JPN)
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The Japanese side’s defence was called into action in the 58th minute when substitute Joe Lolley saw his shot blocked as the backline was forced to scramble the ball away and 11 minutes later Daniel Wilmering’s shot was cleared off the line.
Gamba Osaka turned the tables on Newcastle with 17 minutes remaining to take the lead. Max Burgess was dispossessed deep inside his own half to allow Adams to slip his pass into the path of Hummet and he made no mistake, stroking a low shot past Delianov.
Welton Felipe put the result beyond doubt in the 86th minute when he bent his right-foot strike around Delianov from the left corner of the penalty area, the Newcastle goalkeeper given no chance.
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