The second of Saturday’s AFL Round 10 matches is between Adelaide Crows and Fremantle Dockers. The game is set to commence at 1:40pm local time with the game to be played at AAMI Stadium. Home team Adelaide Crows go into the match as the favourites in the market. View our preview and teams for the game between Adelaide Crows and Fremantle Dockers.

Round: Round 10 1:40 PM June 01, 2013
Stadium: AAMI Stadium
Weather: 21° Shower or two

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Odds Comparison by AFL Odds:

Adelaide Crows	1.80	1.78	1.75	1.78	1.80	1.80
Fremantle Dockers	2.02	2.03	2.10	2.03	2.02	2.03

Preview:

Two great clashes scheduled for Saturday and this is the first of them.

Fourth placed Fremantle visit Adelaide to take on the seventh placed Crows who mounted an unbelievable comeback last week to defeat North 125-124.

After wins over GWS and St. Kilda, it was Adelaide third consecutive win and their fifth of the season.

The manner in which they won last week will no doubt have given the club a real spring in its step this week and they’ll be looking to consolidate their recent form, with a win here.

Fremantle’s only two losses this year have been to Hawthorn and Essendon. In round 8, they toughed out a draw with Sydney at the SCG before last week, drumming Melbourne by 90 points.

It’s a tough road trip the Crows in Adelaide yet so are the Swans in Sydney and the Dockers, who are 3-1 when covering the line away from home, are well positioned here to give a good account of themselves.

Adelaide beat Fremantle in each of their three clashes last year, including a ten point win in the Finals however, Freo have a displayed a tenacity that may not have been as strong as last season as it has been in the opening nine rounds.

Teams:

Adelaide Crows:
B: Luke Brown, Ben Rutten, Andrew Otten
HB: Brent Reilly, Daniel Talia, Brodie Smith
C: Bernie Vince, Patrick Dangerfield, David Mackay
HF: Rory Sloane, Josh Jenkins, Sam Kerridge
F: Jared Petrenko, Thomas Lynch, Richard Douglas
Foll: Sam Jacobs, Scott Thompson, Nathan van Berlo
Int: Jarryd Lyons, Shaun McKernan, Rory Laird, Jason Porplyzia
Emerg: Ricky Henderson, Brodie Martin, Matthew Wright

No change

Fremantle Dockers:
B: Lee Spurr, Zac Dawson, Michael Johnson
HB: Garrick Ibbotson, Luke McPharlin, Alex Silvagni
C: Stephen Hill, Ryan Crowley, Paul Duffield
HF: Michael Barlow, Chris Mayne, Nathan Fyfe
F: Matt de Boer, Zac Clarke, Hayden Ballantyne
Foll: Jack Hannath, David Mundy, Clancee Pearce
Int: Nick Suban, Hayden Crozier, Tendai Mzungu, Danyle Pearce
Emerg: Cameron Sutcliffe, Matthew Taberner, Tom Sheridan

In: S.Hill
Out: C.Sutcliffe

Crows attack can crack Freo defence: coach

The Adelaide Crows believe their attacking prowess can crack Fremantle’s renowned defensive wall in Saturday’s AFL game.

But the Crows are wary of Dockers coach Ross Lyon throwing a curve ball in what looms as a rain-soaked AAMI Stadium battle.

Adelaide beat Fremantle three times last season, including a semi-final victory which ended the Dockers’ season.

“We were the only team that beat them from about round 13 onwards, so we’re confident that our game style is sufficient enough to get it done,” Crows assistant coach Mark Bickley told reporters on Friday.

“But we understand that when you beat a team a couple of occasions in a row, it’s unlikely they will come back and play exactly the same way. So there will be some adjustments that they make.”

Bickley said Adelaide’s success against Fremantle was based on a simple premise.

“You can’t afford, when you play Freo, to be safe. You really have to attack,” he said.

The Crows will field the same side for the third consecutive week, with Bickley saying heavy rain forecast to continue through Saturday was unlikely to prompt a late change.

Adelaide climbed into the top eight for the first time this year following their one-point win against North Melbourne last Sunday, but the jury remains out: the Crows’ five wins have all been against sides outside the top eight.

The fourth-placed Fremantle, who regain winger Stephen Hill from a thigh strain, have conceded the fewest points of any club this year.

“Ross Lyon’s trademark is that he’s able to get everyone on the same page,” he said.

“One of the things about a really strong press or defensive unit is if one or two people aren’t committed to it and aren’t in the right spot and don’t support their teammates, then it all falls apart and teams go straight through and they score really heavily.

“That is the strength of Fremantle – that everyone is really tight, really united and on the same page.

“That doesn’t sound very difficult, but I assure you, it is.

“They have had to introduce, through injury, six or seven new players who have just jumped straight into that system and been able to hold up exactly the same … that is why they’re so good.”