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Greater Western Sydney vs Essendon
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| Round: 8 Venue: Sydney Showground Date: Sat, 08-05-2021 2:10 pm Crowd: 8,526 | |||||
| Greater Western Sydney | 6.2.38 | 7.4.46 | 14.8.92 | 16.11.107 | C: Leon Cameron |
| Essendon | 2.2.14 | 5.7.37 | 10.7.67 | 16.9.105 | C: Ben Rutten |
| GWS by 24 | GWS by 9 | GWS by 25 | GWS by 2 | ||
| Weather |
 14.0°C
 26.3°C
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| Brownlow Medal | 3 Tim Taranto (GWS) | 2 Darcy Parish (ESS) | 1 Zach Merrett (ESS) |
Match Report
GOALS
Greater Western Sydney: Finlayson 3; Sproule, Bruhn, Greene, Kelly 2; Himmelberg, Lloyd, Taranto, Hopper, Hill
Essendon: Langford 3; Wright, McDonald-Tipungwuti, Jones, Snelling 2; Hooker, Perkins, Cox, Redman, Guelfi
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Greater Western Sydney: Greene, Taranto, Kelly, Perryman, Green, Ward
Essendon: Merrett, Parish, Hind, Phillips, Langford, Heppell
INJURIES
Greater Western Sydney: Nil
Essendon: Stringer (hamstring)
SUBSTITUTES
Greater Western Sydney: Stone (unused)
Essendon: Guelfi (replaced Stringer)
TELEVISION BROADCAST: Fox Footy
COMMENTATORS: Kelli Underwood, Brenton Speed, Dermott Brereton, Gerard Healy
Match stats
| Greater Western Sydney | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 7 | Ash, Lachie | 9 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 19y 321d | 20 | 1 |
| 5 | Bruhn, Tanner | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18y 346d | 4 | 2 |
| 44 | Buckley, Jack | 7 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23y 142d | 10 | 0 |
| 13 | Cumming, Isaac | 15 | 3 | 5 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 22y 270d | 18 | 0 |
| 31 | Finlayson, Jeremy | 9 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 25y 88d | 58 | 76 |
| 12 | Green, Tom | 14 | 7 | 14 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 20y 105d | 13 | 5 |
| 4 | Greene, Toby | 17 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 27y 225d | 166 | 204 |
| 37 | Hill, Bobby | 8 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21y 88d | 21 | 15 |
| 27 | Himmelberg, Harry | 9 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 25y 0d | 89 | 105 |
| 2 | Hopper, Jacob | 11 | 4 | 12 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 24y 91d | 92 | 35 |
| 39 | Idun, Connor | 11 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 20y 283d | 10 | 0 |
| 25 | Keeffe, Lachie | 6 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31y 24d | 79 | 15 |
| 22 | Kelly, Josh | 14 | 4 | 16 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 26y 85d | 140 | 90 |
| 38 | Lloyd, Daniel | 11 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 29y 79d | 52 | 39 |
| 41 | Mumford, Shane | 3 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 34y 307d | 206 | 53 |
| 33 | O'Halloran, Xavier | 11 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 20y 301d | 9 | 3 |
| 36 | Perryman, Harry | 14 | 6 | 10 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22y 140d | 57 | 15 |
| 28 | Sproule, Zach | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 22y 361d | 3 | 4 |
| 18 | Stone, Conor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19y 16d | 4 | 1 |
| 14 | Taranto, Tim | 17 | 5 | 12 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 23y 100d | 82 | 31 |
| 15 | Taylor, Sam | 11 | 8 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22y 3d | 42 | 1 |
| 8 | Ward, Callan | 11 | 4 | 12 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 31y 28d | 232 | 112 |
| 6 | Whitfield, Lachie | 9 | 9 | 10 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 26y 294d | 152 | 61 |
| Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 226 | 88 | 154 | 380 | 16 | 11 | 28 | 43 | 17 | 17 | 24y 113d | 1559 | 868 | |
| Essendon | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 13 | Cox, Nik | 6 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 19y 113d | 8 | 4 |
| 10 | Francis, Aaron | 8 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 23y 271d | 42 | 6 |
| 35 | Guelfi, Matt | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 23y 267d | 49 | 9 |
| 33 | Ham, Brayden | 8 | 4 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22y 13d | 23 | 4 |
| 21 | Heppell, Dyson | 14 | 8 | 13 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 28y 359d | 178 | 60 |
| 19 | Hind, Nick | 22 | 5 | 7 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 26y 262d | 29 | 17 |
| 26 | Hooker, Cale | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 32y 207d | 209 | 111 |
| 23 | Jones, Harrison | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20y 72d | 8 | 8 |
| 4 | Langford, Kyle | 10 | 9 | 10 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 24y 158d | 89 | 58 |
| 15 | Laverde, Jayden | 10 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25y 26d | 54 | 37 |
| 43 | McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony | 6 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 28y 16d | 114 | 139 |
| 1 | McGrath, Andrew | 11 | 3 | 14 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 22y 340d | 86 | 17 |
| 7 | Merrett, Zach | 22 | 6 | 15 | 37 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 25y 217d | 150 | 47 |
| 3 | Parish, Darcy | 17 | 5 | 18 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 23y 287d | 101 | 41 |
| 16 | Perkins, Archie | 5 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 19y 43d | 6 | 1 |
| 34 | Phillips, Andrew | 8 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 29y 309d | 48 | 16 |
| 27 | Redman, Mason | 16 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23y 255d | 45 | 5 |
| 14 | Ridley, Jordan | 17 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 22y 200d | 33 | 0 |
| 5 | Smith, Devon | 6 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 27y 353d | 162 | 133 |
| 40 | Snelling, Will | 9 | 5 | 10 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 23y 275d | 30 | 19 |
| 17 | Stewart, James | 9 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 27y 65d | 57 | 66 |
| 25 | Stringer, Jake | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 27y 13d | 144 | 250 |
| 20 | Wright, Peter | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24y 242d | 74 | 90 |
| Totals | 227 | 103 | 166 | 393 | 16 | 9 | 36 | 44 | 17 | 17 | 24y 332d | 1739 | 1138 | |