Match

North Melbourne vs Port Adelaide

Commentary / 05 Sep 2020

Pre Game

00:00
Port Adelaide has conceded just seven marks inside 50 per game – the second-fewest conceded by any side. Port Adelaide key defender and captain Tom Jonas ranks sixth in the competition for average spoils with 6.3 per game.

Quarter 1

00:00
Q1 is now underway.
04:09
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Trent Dumont)
05:48
It has been poor ball use early for the Power going at 50% efficiency and amassing four clanger disposals. This is largely due to the pressure the opposition is applying, the Kangaroos have a pressure factor of 255 thus far.
06:15
SCORE GOAL - Kangaroos (Todd Goldstein)
08:50
North Melbourne is already up to four intercept marks, meanwhile, Port Adelaide has not taken a mark of any kind.
09:11
SCORE GOAL - Power (Charlie Dixon)
09:42
Port Adelaide is able to get its first goal of the match through the clubs leading goalkicker this season, Charlie Dixon. Dixon has 27 goals to this point in the season, his most in a season since 2017.
12:05
SCORE GOAL - Power (Steven Motlop)
12:42
Steven Motlop kicks his 200th career goal and first of the match following a holding the ball free kick in the forward 50. The Power have five tackles inside 50 so far.
14:35
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Charlie Dixon)
17:16
SCORE GOAL - Power (Zak Butters)
17:27
Zak Butters kicks his 11th goal of the season and takes Port Adelaide out to a 12 point lead. Butters is now third for Port Adelaide in goals this season and remains first in goal assists for the club with 12.
19:21
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Ryan Burton)
20:10
Power Interchange - Ryan Burton and is possibly out for the game.
20:32
In the last 10 minutes, the Power have won uncontested possessions 24 to nine, as well as winning disposal efficiency 79% to 50%
22:06
SCORE GOAL - Power (Karl Amon)
22:47
Port Adelaide has the last four goals of the match, the latest coming through Karl Amon. In the last five minutes, it has a disposals efficiency of 94% in the attacking midfield.
24:06
Trent Dumont and Jed Anderson, North Melbourne's leading tacklers this season, are maintaining their high defensive numbers thus far. Both are leading the team in tackles with three in this match.
24:20
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Mason Wood)
24:27
Bailey Scott produced 19 pressure points in the first quarter, this is the most pressure points he has ever produced in a quarter of AFL football.

Quarter 2

00:00
Q2 is now underway.
01:31
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Robbie Gray)
03:47
SCORE GOAL - Kangaroos (Cameron Zurhaar)
04:14
Cam Zurhaar gets his first goal of the match through a forward 50 stoppage clearance. North Melbourne leads effective clearances 11 to six but leads points from stoppages just seven to six.
07:57
Ben McKay currently has a game-high five spoils, the next highest is two. Since round 7 McKay has 50 spoils - ranked 10th in the competition.
11:44
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Darcy Byrne-Jones)
13:31
Port Adelaide has a kicking efficiency of just 46% from kicks in the defensive midfield, North Melbourne is going at 74% from the same type of kicks.
16:28
No player has made their mark on clearances from a ball up or throw in. 16 different players in this match have had a clearance from these stoppage types, there have been 18 total clearances in this match from a ball up or throw in.
18:48
Ollie Wines has a kicking efficiency of just 17% so far. This is uncharacteristic this year for Wines since he has recorded a career-high kicking efficiency of 61% this season, an increase of 19% from last season.
20:22
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Sam Powell-Pepper)
24:01
Port Adelaide had a kicking efficiency of 41% in the second quarter, including kicking 0.3.

Quarter 3

00:00
Q3 is now underway.
00:46
SCORE GOAL - Power (Charlie Dixon)
01:03
After not kicking a goal in the first term, Port Adelaide comes out hot kicking the first goal of the second half through Charlie Dixon.
03:30
SCORE GOAL - Kangaroos (Nick Larkey)
03:48
After kicking multiple goals in each match from Rounds 8-12, Nick Larkey has finished scoreless in each of his past two matches. He has broken that duck tonight kicking a goal after winning a one-on-one contest against Tom Clurey.
06:40
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Jack Ziebell)
07:46
Kangaroos Interchange - Jy Simpkin and is possibly out for the game.
07:53
SCORE GOAL - Power (Robbie Gray)
08:13
Robbie Gray kicks his first goal of the match following with Sam Powell-Pepper receiving the goal assist. Powell-Pepper is up to three goal assists in this match - a new career-high for him.
08:41
Kangaroos Interchange - Todd Goldstein off due to the blood rule.
11:26
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Sam Powell-Pepper)
11:37
Luke Davis-Uniacke has three clearances in this quarter including two from a centre bounce. He is also up to a game-high 12 contested possessions, the second-most in a match in his career. His career-high is 15 contested possessions from round 2 of the 2019 season against Brisbane.
12:42
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Rushed)
13:56
SCORE GOAL - Power (Connor Rozee)
14:33
Connor Rozee kicks his first goal of the match and his first since round 9. Port Adelaide has kicked 6.1 from set shots in this match including 4.0 from set shots taken 40 to 50 metres from goal.
15:56
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Steven Motlop)
16:51
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Rushed)
17:48
SCORE GOAL - Power (Ollie Wines)
18:14
Port Adelaide has kicked eight of the last 10 goals and is out to the largest lead of the match at 34 points. Charlie Dixon has been the inside 50 target 11 times, the only other Port Adelaide player with multiple targets is Todd Marshall with three. Dixon has been the inside 50 target 133 times this season, 15 more than the next highest player in the competition.
19:13
SCORE GOAL - Power (Travis Boak)
20:45
SCORE GOAL - Power (Ollie Wines)
21:09
The last three goals have come from Power midfielders, including two to Ollie Wines. In the last five minutes the Power lead disposals 16 to four.
23:49
Luke Davies-Uniacke has received the most pressure of any North Melbourne player in this match. He has received 2.45 pressure points per disposal, and despite this he has a disposal efficiency of 63%. This season Davies-Uniacke has received an average of 1.91 pressure points per disposal, the most of any North Melbourne player playing this match.
25:17
SCORE GOAL - Kangaroos (Aaron Hall)
28:37
Travis Boak has eight effective clearances in this match, a new season-high for him. Seven of these came in the third term in which he also had 13 disposals and a goal.

Quarter 4

00:00
Q4 is now underway.
02:34
Ben McKay is up to 10 spoils, the second time this season he has reached double-digit spoils.
03:15
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Cameron Zurhaar)
04:28
SCORE GOAL - Kangaroos (Josh Walker)
05:09
Josh Walker kicks his first goal for the match and third for the season, the most he has had since 2017. This is the first time North Melbourne has kicked consecutive goals in this match, having also kicked the last goal of the third quarter.
06:37
SCORE BEHIND - Kangaroos (Rushed)
07:14
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Connor Rozee)
08:41
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Karl Amon)
09:49
Xavier Duurmsa has spent a large majority of the night matched up on Shaun Higgins. In this matchup, he has amassed just six disposals, whilst Higgins has collected 16 disposals when on Duursma.
12:43
SCORE GOAL - Kangaroos (Mason Wood)
13:05
North Melbourne has 13 points from turnovers in this quarter. For the match Port Adelaide has nine unforced turnovers, it averages 11 this season - the fifth most in the competition.
15:28
SCORE GOAL - Power (Sam Powell-Pepper)
15:50
Sam Powell-Pepper finally gets a goal of his own in the match after recording two behinds in the first three quarters and amassing three goal assists.
18:37
Luke Davies-Uniacke has set a new career-high in contested possessions with 16.
19:11
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Dan Houston)
20:55
SCORE BEHIND - Power (Kane Farrell)
21:12
Tom Rockliff has 22 uncontested possessions which is a season-high. He has combined this with a game-high nine tackles.
22:49
Port Adelaide established its dominance in the third term winning the quarter 39 points to 14. It was Travis Boak who set the term alight with seven effective clearances, the equal most in a quarter since 2017. He combined this with a goal meanwhile other Port Adelaide midfielders in Ollie Wines (two goals) and Sam Powell-Pepper (two goal assists) chipped in during this term.