Saturday second AFL Round 2 match is between Port Adelaide Power and Adelaide Crows with the game to be played at Adelaide Oval. The opening bounce is set to commence at 4.15pm with home team Port Adelaide Power currently holding favouritism. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Port Adelaide Power and Adelaide Crows.
Round: Round 2, Saturday, March 29, 4.15pm
Stadium: Adelaide Oval
Weather: 28° Partly cloudy.
Odds Comparison:
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| Port Adelaide Power | 1.67 | 1.65 | 1.67 | 1.65 | 1.67 | 1.67 |
| Adelaide Crows | 2.20 | 2.25 | 2.25 | 2.25 | 2.20 | 2.20 |
All odds are subject to change. Odds listed are correct at the time of the latest update.
Preview:
This local derby clash always gets a lot of attention from AFL fans, both in Adelaide and beyond. Kicking off at Adelaide Oval on Saturday, 4.45pm, both teams will want to take the points at the redeveloped Adelaide Oval. The Power will be slight favourites to win this one, especially after their impressive first round effort against Carlton. Justin Westhoff, Robbie Gray, and Angus Monfries were all in great form for Port last round, and if they can keep it up, the Crows could be in trouble.
In contrast, the Crows fell apart in the fourth quarter against Geelong last round, after looking pretty good for the first three quarters of the game. Their 38-point loss to Geelong was worrying, especially the lack of fighting spirit shown in the last quarter. The new Adelaide Oval surface is likely to produce a fast, high- scoring game, and both teams will be out to prove themselves for such an historic occasion.
Teams:
Port Adelaide Power:
Backs: Hombsch Carlile Impey
Half-backs: Jonas Trengrove Cassisi
Centres: Polec Hartlett Cornes
Half-forwards: White Westhoff Wingard
Forwards: Butcher Schulz Monfries
Followers: Lobbe Boak Ebert
Interchange: Broadbent R Gray Wines Pittard
Emergencies: O’Shea Clurey Young
In: Carlile
Out: Clurey
Adelaide Crows:
Backs: Shaw Rutten Brown
Half-backs: Reilly Talia Mackay
Centres: Smith Dangerfield Grigg
Half-forwards: B Crouch Podsiadly Wright
Forwards: Johnston McKernan Betts
Followers: Jacobs Sloane Douglas
Interchange: S Thompson Jaensch Kerridge Porplyzia
Emergencies: Jenkins Lyons Martin
In: Reilly Douglas
Out: Martin Lyons
News:
Ken Hinkley and his mate Brenton Sanderson agree: it’s futile.
The Port Adelaide and Crows coaches say it’s pointless trying to downplay Saturday’s AFL match between the clubs as just another game.
The clashes of the bitter rivals, dubbed `Showdowns’, are always fierce. But this one is also historic: the first AFL match at a newly-completed and redeveloped Adelaide Oval.
“Showdowns are always big,” Hinkley told reporters on Friday.
“But because we’re here at Adelaide Oval and the significance of the first game, it feels like there’s a little bit more on it, it feels like a really big game. I feel a little bit more tension in the game.”
Sanderson, who played with Hinkley at Geelong and then sat in the same coaches box when both were assistant coaches with the Cats, said the game was a watershed moment for not just the AFL, but South Australia.
“This is just so exciting for out city, for our state, and for our football clubs,” Sanderson told reporters.
About 53,000 spectators are expected to fill the revamped Adelaide Oval, which has undergone a $535 million redevelopment.
But amid much hoopla surrounding the oval itself, Hinkley and Sanderson both realised a game has to be won.
“The feedback we get from the players is the build-up is enormous to this game and there’s a lot of anxiety and pressures,” Sanderson said.
“When the ball gets bounced, it’s just another game of footy. But it just feels like the hits are a little bit harder, the tackles are a little bit more fierce, the pressure when you’re having a shot for goal seems to be magnified a little bit more.”
Sanderson embraced Adelaide’s underdog tag for the fixture, heaping praise on Port – their fitness, their coaching, their midfield, their forwards.
“This is a really good football team we’re up against … we have got to be at our best to beat them,” Sanderson said.
“That half-forward line – (Robbie) Gray, (Chad) Wingard, (Angus) Monfries – is probably the envy of most sides in the competition.
“We can’t make it an open running game.
… because Port probably wins that sort of game against any team, let alone us.
“We’ll have to make sure that we make it a contest. Keep it in close, don’t let the ball get outside.”
Hinkley said he was prepared for that tactic, believing his friendship with Sanderson meant neither held any secrets.
“He knows what I’m like. And I’ve got a fair understanding of what he’s like,” he said.
