The Western Bulldogs have found some form in the past month and our playing with a purpose that was desperately missing from the first half of their season.

They’ve accounted for West Coast and Carlton and made Sydney earn their victory over them in round 19 in the last three weeks

Adelaide, who only sit two wins above the Bulldogs on the ladder, have had a season of ups and downs and that is well demonstrated by their results over the past month.

They’ve registered wins over Geelong and North, had a heartbreaking loss to Port and although competitive, fell several goals short of both Collingwood and Fremantle.

That said this is the first time in five rounds that the Crows come up against a team sitting outside of the eight.

The market is the closest of all games this round and rightly so.

Both teams match up well across the park and there’s little in the season stats to separate them.

Where the difference may lay is in the clearances and hit-outs, both areas of the game where the Bulldogs have a slight advantage over the Crows and against teams strong in similar areas, the Crows have just failed to produce the goods.

This game is a good way to finish the round and whilst it will have no bearing on the competition, expect a strong clash with little separating the two sides.

TIP: BULLDOGS 1 – 39.

Odds comparison by AFL Odds:

Western Bulldogs	2.12	2.15	2.12	2.15	2.12	2.15
Adelaide Crows	1.72	1.70	1.72	1.70	1.72	1.72

Teams:

Western Bulldogs:
B: L.Picken J.Roughead D.Morris
HB: T.Young M.Austin R.Murphy
C: M.Boyd T.Liberatore D.Cross
HF: R.Griffen J.Grant D.Giansiracusa
F: L.Dahlhaus T.Campbell K.Stevens
FOLL: W.Minson M.Wallis A.Cooney
EMG: E.Wood J.Macrae J.Tutt
I/C (from): L.Jones L.Hunter D.Addison T.Dickson
In: Lachie Hunter, Matthew Boyd, Jack Macrae
Out: Nil

Adelaide Crows:
B: R.Laird B.Rutten A.Otten
HB: L.Brown D.Talia B.Smith
C: R.Sloane P.Dangerfield N.van Berlo
HF: B.Vince T.Lynch B.Crouch
F: J.Petrenko L.Johnston I.Callinan
FOLL: S.Jacobs R.Douglas S.Thompson
I/C (from): M.Jaensch M.Wright D.Mackay S.Kerridge S.Shaw S.McKernan M.Grigg

In: Shaun McKernan, Matthew Jaensch, Ian Callinan, Sam Kerridge
Out: Ricky Henderson (knee)