2019 AFL Season Round 5: North Melbourne v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 19 April 2019 between North Melbourne and Essendon during round five of the 2019 season of the Australian Football League. North Melbourne hosted Essendon at Marvel Stadium. Jack Ziebell captained the hosts. Dyson Heppell captained the visitors with Zach Merrett as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by John Worsfold.

North Melbourne (7.16.58) were defeated by Essendon (17.14.116).

Match Details

Season: 2019 AFL Season
Round: Round 5
Teams: North Melbourne v Essendon
Date: Friday 19 April 2019
Time: 4:20 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 48,278

Match Results

Outcome: North Melbourne def. by Essendon
Score: 7.16.58 - 17.14.116

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
North Melbourne	1	.	6	3	.	7	4	.	12	7	.	16	7	.	16	(58)
Essendon	3	.	4	9	.	7	13	.	11	17	.	14	17	.	14	(116)
Margin	ESSE by 10			ESSE by 36			ESSE by 53			ESSE by 58			ESSE by 58
Duration	27:43			30:17			29:19			30:06			1:57:25

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (North Melbourne) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Essendon) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

North Melbourne

Captain: Jack Ziebell
Coach: Brad Scott

Essendon

Captain: Dyson Heppell
Vice-Captain: Zach Merrett
Coach: John Worsfold

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

R. Findlay (#23)
S. Hay (#20)
S. Meredith (#21)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Dylan Shiel	ESSE	9	3
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	2
Orazio Fantasia	ESSE	13	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	8	?	?	?	0	0
Dylan Shiel	ESSE	9	8	?	?	?	0	0
Dyson Heppell	ESSE	21	5	?	?	?	?	?
Orazio Fantasia	ESSE	13	4	0	?	?	?	?
Michael Hurley	ESSE	18	4	0	?	?	?	?
Cale Hooker	ESSE	26	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

North Melbourne

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
15	Ahern, Paul	INT	63%	1	0	9	5	4	5	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	0
3	Anderson, Jed	RO	66%	0	0	19	3	16	2	0	10	4	1	0	0	0	1
18	Atley, Shaun	HBFR	89%	0	0	21	9	12	4	0	1	0	2	1	1	2	0
50	Brown, Ben	FF	100%	2	2	10	7	3	4	0	2	0	1	3	1	0	2
10	Cunnington, Ben	RR	80%	1	1	29	8	21	3	0	1	8	3	1	3	1	1
9	Davies-Uniacke, Luke	INT	71%	0	2	14	9	5	3	0	2	0	1	1	1	1	7
14	Dumont, Trent	WR	87%	0	0	31	20	11	5	0	2	0	5	0	0	3	3
22	Goldstein, Todd	RU	87%	0	2	13	4	9	1	25	1	5	2	2	1	0	2
43	Hall, Aaron	HFFL	76%	0	1	16	9	7	3	0	4	0	3	1	1	1	4
4	Higgins, Shaun	C	82%	0	1	30	15	15	5	0	2	6	4	1	1	0	4
34	Macmillan, Jamie	BPL	90%	0	0	24	15	9	8	0	2	0	6	3	2	10	1
17	Pittard, Jasper	BPR	83%	1	0	22	16	6	5	0	1	0	6	1	0	3	5
13	Polec, Jared	WL	88%	1	1	22	15	7	4	0	1	0	3	0	1	3	4
30	Scott, Bailey	INT	67%	0	1	11	5	6	3	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0
12	Simpkin, Jy	HBFL	79%	0	0	11	4	7	3	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	1
25	Tarrant, Robbie	FB	94%	0	0	17	11	6	8	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	3
16	Thompson, Scott	CHB	92%	0	0	16	13	3	5	0	1	0	1	1	1	4	0
28	Turner, Kayne	FPL	84%	0	0	12	5	7	2	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	1
32	Wood, Mason	HFFR	86%	0	3	12	9	3	4	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	2
19	Wright, Sam	INT	72%	0	0	19	8	11	2	0	1	0	6	2	3	2	2
7	Ziebell, Jack (c)	CHF	81%	0	0	6	4	2	1	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	2
44	Zurhaar, Cameron	FPR	86%	1	0	14	9	5	6	1	1	1	3	1	1	0	3
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				7	16	378	203	175	86	26	43	26	53	24	21	32	48

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
29	Ambrose, Patrick	FB	85%	1	0	6	3	3	4	0	0	0	2	0	2	3	0
12	Baguley, Mark	FPR	93%	0	0	10	4	6	1	0	2	0	6	0	6	0	1
2	Bellchambers, Tom	RU	84%	0	1	13	5	8	7	23	0	2	2	0	2	1	1
28	Brown, Mitch	FF	97%	3	3	20	13	7	7	0	0	1	1	3	1	0	1
6	Daniher, Joe	CHF	86%	2	1	10	7	3	5	6	3	0	5	0	3	0	2
13	Fantasia, Orazio	RR	74%	4	1	18	12	6	3	0	4	1	3	3	0	0	4
35	Guelfi, Matt	INT	70%	0	0	21	8	13	4	0	2	2	3	0	1	2	0
33	Ham, Brayden	HFFL	81%	1	0	10	6	4	3	0	5	0	4	0	1	0	4
21	Heppell, Dyson (c)	WL	79%	0	0	32	17	15	10	0	3	5	3	1	1	1	6
26	Hooker, Cale	BPL	92%	0	0	22	15	7	11	0	0	0	1	3	0	5	1
18	Hurley, Michael	CHB	89%	0	0	25	16	9	12	0	1	0	4	0	0	5	1
43	McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony	HFFR	71%	2	0	11	7	4	2	0	4	1	3	2	1	0	2
1	McGrath, Andrew	HBFL	82%	2	0	20	11	9	5	0	0	2	0	1	0	2	3
45	McKenna, Conor	BPR	89%	0	1	26	17	9	2	0	1	1	3	0	1	6	4
7	Merrett, Zach (vc)	C	82%	0	0	39	18	21	4	0	9	7	4	2	1	2	6
23	Myers, David	INT	68%	0	0	17	6	11	2	0	4	5	3	0	1	0	2
3	Parish, Darcy	INT	79%	0	1	16	11	5	5	0	4	2	4	1	0	1	2
27	Redman, Mason	WR	79%	0	0	15	9	6	4	0	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
14	Ridley, Jordan	INT	84%	0	0	13	12	1	6	0	2	0	2	1	0	6	0
42	Saad, Adam	HBFR	85%	0	0	18	9	9	2	0	2	0	1	1	1	5	1
9	Shiel, Dylan	RO	73%	0	1	36	23	13	7	0	3	5	5	1	1	2	10
25	Stringer, Jake	FPL	77%	2	2	9	8	1	5	0	5	0	1	1	1	0	1
Rushed					3
Total (22 players)				17	14	407	237	170	111	29	58	35	62	21	24	41	55

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s

Player Line-Up

North Melbourne							Coach: Brad Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	26	C. Hooker	29	P. Ambrose	45	C. McKenna	22	T. Goldstein	15	P. Ahern
	44	C. Zurhaar	50	B. Brown	28	K. Turner	10	B. Cunnington	9	L. Davies-Uniacke
FORWARD							3	J. Anderson	30	B. Scott
HALF-BACK									19	S. Wright
	1	A. McGrath	18	M. Hurley	42	A. Saad
	32	M. Wood	7	J. Ziebell (c)	43	A. Hall
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	21	D. Heppell (c)	7	Z. Merrett (vc)	27	M. Redman
	14	T. Dumont	4	S. Higgins	13	J. Polec	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							2	T. Bellchambers	35	M. Guelfi
HALF-FORWARD							13	O. Fantasia	23	D. Myers
	33	B. Ham	6	J. Daniher	43	A. McDonald-Tipungwuti	9	D. Shiel	3	D. Parish
	18	S. Atley	16	S. Thompson	12	J. Simpkin			14	J. Ridley
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	25	J. Stringer	28	M. Brown	12	M. Baguley
	17	J. Pittard	25	R. Tarrant	34	J. Macmillan
BACK
Essendon							Coach: John Worsfold

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Orazio Fantasia goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	00:52
	NMLB	Todd Goldstein behind	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	02:43
	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	0.1.1	-	1.1.7	04:00
	ESSE	Joe Daniher behind	0.1.1	-	1.2.8	05:26
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke behind	0.2.2	-	1.2.8	07:22
	ESSE	Orazio Fantasia behind	0.2.2	-	1.3.9	09:05
	NMLB	Mason Wood behind	0.3.3	-	1.3.9	10:08
	ESSE	Andrew McGrath goal	0.3.3	-	2.3.15	11:50
	NMLB	Mason Wood behind	0.4.4	-	2.3.15	13:10
	ESSE	Mitch Brown behind	0.4.4	-	2.4.16	17:51
	NMLB	Jasper Pittard goal	1.4.10	-	2.4.16	18:44
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington behind	1.5.11	-	2.4.16	20:18
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	1.5.11	-	3.4.22	22:01
	NMLB	Todd Goldstein behind	1.6.12	-	3.4.22	25:08
Q2	ESSE	Dylan Shiel behind	1.6.12	-	3.5.23	00:33
	NMLB	Rushed behind	1.7.13	-	3.5.23	02:17
	ESSE	Orazio Fantasia goal	1.7.13	-	4.5.29	03:56
	NMLB	Cameron Zurhaar goal	2.7.19	-	4.5.29	06:00
	ESSE	Darcy Parish behind	2.7.19	-	4.6.30	16:39
	ESSE	Andrew McGrath goal	2.7.19	-	5.6.36	17:56
	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	2.7.19	-	6.6.42	19:51
	ESSE	Mitch Brown goal	2.7.19	-	7.6.48	21:13
	ESSE	Orazio Fantasia goal	2.7.19	-	8.6.54	22:25
	NMLB	Jared Polec goal	3.7.25	-	8.6.54	25:20
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	3.7.25	-	9.6.60	27:17
	ESSE	Rushed behind	3.7.25	-	9.7.61	28:42
Q3	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	3.7.25	-	10.7.67	00:46
	ESSE	Mitch Brown behind	3.7.25	-	10.8.68	02:50
	ESSE	Conor McKenna behind	3.7.25	-	10.9.69	03:58
	NMLB	Aaron Hall behind	3.8.26	-	10.9.69	04:29
	ESSE	Orazio Fantasia goal	3.8.26	-	11.9.75	05:24
	NMLB	Bailey Scott behind	3.9.27	-	11.9.75	08:15
	NMLB	Shaun Higgins behind	3.10.28	-	11.9.75	11:38
	ESSE	Patrick Ambrose goal	3.10.28	-	12.9.81	13:15
	NMLB	Rushed behind	3.11.29	-	12.9.81	15:26
	ESSE	Mitch Brown goal	3.11.29	-	13.9.87	16:12
	ESSE	Tom Bellchambers behind	3.11.29	-	13.10.88	18:03
	ESSE	Mitch Brown behind	3.11.29	-	13.11.89	20:13
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	4.11.35	-	13.11.89	21:56
	NMLB	Ben Brown behind	4.12.36	-	13.11.89	25:08
Q4	NMLB	Ben Brown behind	4.13.37	-	13.11.89	01:26
	NMLB	Jared Polec behind	4.14.38	-	13.11.89	04:04
	ESSE	Jake Stringer goal	4.14.38	-	14.11.95	05:34
	ESSE	Joe Daniher goal	4.14.38	-	15.11.101	07:11
	NMLB	Ben Brown goal	5.14.44	-	15.11.101	09:34
	NMLB	Luke Davies-Uniacke behind	5.15.45	-	15.11.101	11:00
	NMLB	Mason Wood behind	5.16.46	-	15.11.101	11:39
	ESSE	Mitch Brown goal	5.16.46	-	16.11.107	12:48
	ESSE	Jake Stringer behind	5.16.46	-	16.12.108	14:30
	NMLB	Ben Cunnington goal	6.16.52	-	16.12.108	17:58
	ESSE	Rushed behind	6.16.52	-	16.13.109	19:55
	ESSE	Rushed behind	6.16.52	-	16.14.110	20:22
	NMLB	Paul Ahern goal	7.16.58	-	16.14.110	21:10
	ESSE	Brayden Ham goal	7.16.58	-	17.14.116	25:59

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