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Pre Game
00:00
In Round 10, Adelaide scored 42 points against the Saints from forward half intercept possession chains, the third highest total of any side from this source last round, and over double their season average of 20 points per game in this category, the fourth-lowest season average from this source.
Quarter 1
00:00
Q1 is now underway.
05:20
Jackson Hately gets the first score of the match to get the Crows on the board. That score was launched from Adelaide's fifth clearance for the match already, whereas the Cats have only recorded one clearance to this point of the match.
06:52
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Lachlan Murphy)
07:58
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Shane McAdam)
08:13
Three straight behinds now for the Crows from four inside 50 entries. In the last five rounds, the Crows rank in the bottom three teams in the side for both scores per inside 50 (39 per cent, ranked 16th) and goals per inside 50 (17 per cent, ranked 18th).
09:28
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Rushed)
12:38
Both teams are butchering the ball when kicking it in their forward half in the first term, with both the Cats (25 per cent kicking efficiency) and Crows (27 per cent) hitting less than one in every three targets by foot when in their attacking half respectively.
13:38
SCORE
BEHIND - Cats (Jeremy Cameron)
14:56
Tom Hawkins kicks the first goal of the match from Geelong's first mark inside 50. Geelong were held to zero marks inside 50 before half time last week against Port Adelaide for just the second time since the turn of the century.
17:51
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Shane McAdam)
20:02
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Gryan Miers)
20:41
Both of Geelong's goals in the first term have been scored from each forward pocket within 15 metres of the goal line. Geelong have kicked six goals from six shots at goal from their forward pockets on the angle in 2022, the most goals and best accuracy of any side from this zone.
22:26
SCORE
BEHIND - Cats (Rushed)
23:00
SCORE
BEHIND - Cats (Cameron Guthrie)
26:33
Crows Interchange - Sam Berry off due to the blood rule.
27:32
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Darcy Fogarty)
28:43
SCORE
BEHIND - Cats (Mark O'Connor)
29:56
Neither team was able to launch a scoring chain from their defensive half in the first quarter of today's match. Geelong ranks first for average points from their defensive half in the first 10 rounds (38 points per game) with Adelaide not far behind in eighth respectively (31 points per game).
Quarter 2
00:00
Q2 is now underway.
04:34
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Jeremy Cameron)
05:09
Cats Interchange - Zach Tuohy off due to an injury.
06:15
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Tom Hawkins)
06:22
That goal to Tom Hawkins has come from his second mark inside 50, making this the 20th consecutive match he has taken two or more marks inside 50. This makes Hawkins the first player in VFL/AFL history to accomplish such a streak of 20 games or more three times in their career.
09:10
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Tyson Stengle)
10:21
After Adelaide recorded five of the first six inside 50's of the second term without registering a score, Geelong have kicked two goals from their next two inside 50's. Tom Hawkins and Jeremy Cameron both kicked their goals from marks on the lead, in which Hawkins ranks first (24) and Cameron equal second (21) among all players in the AFL in 2022.
10:24
SCORE
BEHIND - Cats (Brad Close)
10:46
After both teams recorded just one centre clearance in the first term without registering a score from this source, Geelong have won three of the first four centre clearances in this term and have recorded the only two scores from this source as a result (1.1.7).
11:30
SCORE
GOAL - Crows (Darcy Fogarty)
13:18
SCORE
GOAL - Crows (Shane McAdam)
14:04
Each of the Crows first two goals for the match this term have come from forward half clearance chains. Last round against St Kilda they scored nine points from this source, the fourth-lowest tally of any side in Round 10.
15:29
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Joel Selwood)
17:25
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Rushed)
18:11
Of Rory Laird's game-high nine disposals in the second quarter, five of them have registered a stoppage clearance. No other player has more than two clearances in this term, or more than four clearances in the match.
21:58
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Jeremy Cameron)
26:14
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Gryan Miers)
28:18
Crows Interchange - Lachlan Murphy off due to an injury.
31:45
SCORE
GOAL - Crows (Darcy Fogarty)
33:41
All three goals for the Crows in the first half come from possession chains launched from their attacking midfield zone, where they lead the Cats for total scores with 3.3.21 to 2.2.14. However they have been outscored 28-24 from forward half chains, as well as 39-22 from midfield chains in the first half.
Quarter 3
00:00
Q3 is now underway.
03:09
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Ned McHenry)
04:02
SCORE
GOAL - Crows (Jake Soligo)
04:25
Jake Soligo gets the Crows on the board first in the second half with Adelaide's first goal from a forward 50 chain in today's match. Over the last five rounds, Adelaide have been outscored by 4.4 points per game from forward 50 chains, the equal-fifth worst margin of any side from this zone.
07:41
SCORE
GOAL - Crows (Darcy Fogarty)
09:16
Darcy Fogarty now leads all players with three goals for the match so far. He has only kicked more than three goals on one previous occasion in his career, when he kicked five goals against West Coast in Round 21, 2019.
12:44
SCORE
GOAL - Crows (Ben Keays)
14:34
Since quarter time, Adelaide lead the contested possession count 68-44, including 21-11 pre-clearance groundball gets, which has allowed them to score three goals to one from forward half clearance chains to get them back into this match.
15:21
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Jordan Dawson)
16:47
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Gryan Miers)
19:40
After allowing Geelong to record 38 intercept possessions and launch five goals to none in the first half, Adelaide have been much more secure with their ball use in the third term, giving up only seven intercept possession chains this quarter and not conceding a score from this source.
19:55
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Jeremy Cameron)
23:51
Crows Interchange - Jordon Butts and is possibly out for the game.
25:56
Geelong has been notably more aggressive with their ball movement in the third quarter. They have played on immediately from 53 per cent of their marks in this term, 25 per cent more than their opponents, and of their 15 inside 50's this term, seven have been repeat entries.
27:42
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Jackson Hately)
29:04
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Rushed)
30:45
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Zach Tuohy)
31:06
A late goal to Zach Tuohy, which is Geelong's first goal for the term from an intercept possession. Over the last five rounds, Geelong have outscored their opponents by five goals per game from this source, the second-highest margin of any side in the last five matches.
32:28
After recording just one offensive one-on-one contest win from eight attempts in the first half, Adelaide won two of five offensive one-on-one's in the third term. In the last fives rounds, Adelaide have won just under 20 per cent of these contests, ranked fourth-last in the AFL in this category.
Quarter 4
00:00
Q4 is now underway.
01:08
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Jeremy Cameron)
02:27
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Tyson Stengle)
03:22
Geelong get the first two goals of the final term to almost take this game beyond the reach of the Crows. They have now outscored their opponents by 44 points from shots at goal within 40 metres of the goalline in today's match (80-36).
04:38
SCORE
BEHIND - Cats (Rushed)
10:33
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Tyson Stengle)
11:17
After recording nine of the first ten inside 50's in the final term, the Cats take the lead beyond 40 points for the first time in today's match, and it looks as though the Crows' 11-game Kardinia Park losing streak, their only double-digit losing streak at any active AFL venue, will continue after today's match.
12:17
SCORE
GOAL - Crows (Ned McHenry)
14:19
SCORE
BEHIND - Cats (Rushed)
18:00
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (James Rowe)
19:00
Geelong are mopping up the easy ball at ground level in the final term, leading the loose-ball gets 20-6 in the final term, and the overall ground-ball get count 22-13. Geelong have won the ground-ball count by 1.8 possessions per game in the last five rounds, ranked seventh in the AFL.
23:11
Cats Interchange - Jake Kolodjashnij off due to an injury.
23:19
SCORE
GOAL - Cats (Brad Close)
25:07
Tom Stewart has equalled the 2022 season-record of 17 intercept possessions in a match, set by Griffin Logue against the Gold Coast in Round 9. This is a career-high figure for him in this category, and he has also equalled his career-high for disposals with 40.
27:24
Reilly O'Brien has responded to his re-elevation to the senior side they way the Crows would've hoped, leading all players on the ground with 22 contested possessions, to go with nine clearances and seven tackles.
29:46
Tom Atkins has become the first player since Jack Steele in 2019 to record 17 tackles in a game, the equal-seventh highest total in any game in VFL/AFL history.
30:10
SCORE
BEHIND - Crows (Shane McAdam)
31:07
Geelong have run out convincing winners at home to record back-to-back wins for the first time since Round 4. They dominated the game through the midfield, scoring 11.5.71 from chains launched between the 50 metre arc's. They also outscored the Crows 53-27 from intercept possessions despite recording just one more intercept than the Crows.