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| Round: 16 Venue: M.C.G. Date: Sat, 03-07-2021 1:45 pm Crowd: 16,963 | |||||
| Melbourne | 1.3.9 | 3.6.24 | 5.9.39 | 7.13.55 | C: Simon Goodwin |
| Greater Western Sydney | 2.2.14 | 6.6.42 | 8.8.56 | 9.10.64 | C: Leon Cameron |
| GWS by 5 | GWS by 18 | GWS by 17 | GWS by 9 | ||
| Weather |
 6.6°C
 10.6°C
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 0mm
 66%
 1015.1mb
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 26km/h
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| Brownlow Medal | 3 Josh Kelly (GWS) | 2 Christian Petracca (MELB) | 1 Tim Taranto (GWS) |
Match Report
GOALS
Melbourne: Fritsch 3; Pickett, Sparrow, Neal-Bullen, Salem
Greater Western Sydney: Greene 3; Taranto, Ward, Kelly, Reid, Himmelberg, Whitfield
BEST - AFL.COM.AU (Riley Beveridge)
Melbourne: Salem, Petracca, Fritsch, Langdon, Rivers, Gawn
Greater Western Sydney: Kelly, Ward, Taranto, Green, Perryman, Hopper, Whitfield
BEST - THE AGE (Damien Ractliffe)
Melbourne: Salem, May, Oliver, Lever, Petracca
Greater Western Sydney: Kelly, Whitfield, Hopper, Green, Ward
INJURIES
Melbourne: Nil
Greater Western Sydney: Buckley (knee)
SUBSTITUTES
Melbourne: vandenBerg (unused)
Greater Western Sydney: Reid (replaced Buckley)
TELEVISION BROADCAST: Fox Footy
COMMENTATORS: Eddie McGuire, Mark Howard, Leigh Montagna, Cameron Mooney
Match stats
| Melbourne | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 10 | Brayshaw, Angus | 10 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 25y 175d | 109 | 43 |
| 31 | Fritsch, Bayley | 9 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24y 209d | 75 | 90 |
| 11 | Gawn, Max | 12 | 9 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 29y 185d | 149 | 67 |
| 4 | Harmes, James | 9 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 25y 271d | 113 | 63 |
| 14 | Hibberd, Michael | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 31y 181d | 167 | 14 |
| 29 | Hunt, Jayden | 9 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 26y 91d | 89 | 42 |
| 6 | Jackson, Luke | 6 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 19y 277d | 20 | 11 |
| 23 | Jordon, James | 8 | 2 | 12 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20y 195d | 15 | 6 |
| 15 | Langdon, Ed | 13 | 6 | 12 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 25y 152d | 99 | 46 |
| 8 | Lever, Jake | 9 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 25y 120d | 107 | 3 |
| 1 | May, Steven | 19 | 6 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 29y 174d | 162 | 23 |
| 25 | McDonald, Tom | 18 | 10 | 4 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 28y 288d | 185 | 133 |
| 30 | Neal-Bullen, Alex | 10 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 25y 175d | 95 | 74 |
| 13 | Oliver, Clayton | 10 | 4 | 18 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 23y 346d | 114 | 35 |
| 5 | Petracca, Christian | 18 | 10 | 12 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 25y 180d | 117 | 110 |
| 35 | Petty, Harrison | 6 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21y 233d | 20 | 6 |
| 36 | Pickett, Kysaiah | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20y 31d | 29 | 28 |
| 24 | Rivers, Trent | 15 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 19y 338d | 24 | 3 |
| 3 | Salem, Christian | 19 | 9 | 12 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 25y 353d | 120 | 23 |
| 9 | Spargo, Charlie | 7 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21y 220d | 49 | 32 |
| 32 | Sparrow, Tom | 6 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21y 33d | 18 | 7 |
| 22 | vandenBerg, Aaron | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29y 122d | 48 | 23 |
| 7 | Viney, Jack | 10 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 27y 81d | 142 | 38 |
| Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 227 | 115 | 151 | 378 | 7 | 13 | 29 | 63 | 19 | 21 | 24y 351d | 2066 | 920 | |
| Greater Western Sydney | Match Stats | Career | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Player | K | M | H | D | G | B | HO | T | FF | FA | Age | Games | G |
| 7 | Ash, Lachie | 11 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20y 12d | 27 | 1 |
| 44 | Buckley, Jack | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23y 198d | 17 | 0 |
| 13 | Cumming, Isaac | 9 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 22y 326d | 25 | 1 |
| 16 | Daniels, Brent | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 22y 116d | 57 | 21 |
| 1 | Davis, Phil | 7 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 30y 307d | 182 | 7 |
| 31 | Finlayson, Jeremy | 7 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 25y 144d | 64 | 88 |
| 30 | Flynn, Matt | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 23y 293d | 11 | 5 |
| 12 | Green, Tom | 9 | 6 | 16 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 20y 161d | 19 | 8 |
| 4 | Greene, Toby | 7 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 27y 281d | 171 | 215 |
| 19 | Haynes, Nick | 10 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 29y 46d | 157 | 9 |
| 37 | Hill, Bobby | 5 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 21y 144d | 28 | 23 |
| 27 | Himmelberg, Harry | 9 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 25y 56d | 96 | 110 |
| 2 | Hopper, Jacob | 15 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 24y 147d | 99 | 38 |
| 39 | Idun, Connor | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20y 339d | 17 | 0 |
| 22 | Kelly, Josh | 18 | 2 | 11 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 26y 141d | 147 | 97 |
| 40 | Kennedy, Adam | 13 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 28y 356d | 125 | 12 |
| 38 | Lloyd, Daniel | 11 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 29y 135d | 59 | 46 |
| 41 | Mumford, Shane | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 34y 363d | 210 | 53 |
| 36 | Perryman, Harry | 15 | 3 | 8 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 22y 196d | 61 | 16 |
| 50 | Reid, Sam | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 31y 238d | 103 | 32 |
| 14 | Taranto, Tim | 18 | 6 | 10 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 23y 156d | 89 | 33 |
| 8 | Ward, Callan | 18 | 7 | 6 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 31y 84d | 239 | 119 |
| 6 | Whitfield, Lachie | 14 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 26y 350d | 159 | 63 |
| Rushed | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 209 | 84 | 135 | 344 | 9 | 10 | 32 | 60 | 21 | 19 | 25y 295d | 2162 | 997 | |