2019 AFL Round 20: Essendon v Port Adelaide

This is the match report for the match played on 3 August 2019 between Essendon and Port Adelaide during round 20 of the 2019 AFL season. Essendon hosted Port Adelaide at Marvel Stadium. In the absence of Dyson Heppell, vice-captain Zach Merrett captained the hosts. Tom Jonas captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by John Worsfold and the visitors were coached by Ken Hinkley.

Essendon
Back: M. Redman, C. Hooker, C. McKenna
Half-back: A. Francis, P. Ambrose, D. Zaharakis
Centre: J. Stringer, Z. Merrett (capt.), A. Saad
Half-forward: D. Parish, M. Brown, A. McDonald-Tipungwuti
Forward: W. Snelling, M. Hartley, A. McGrath
Follower: Z. Clarke, D. Shiel, D. Clarke
Int.: O. Fantasia, M. Gleeson, M. Guelfi, K. Langford

Port Adelaide
Back: T. Jonas (capt.), T. Clurey, J. Westhoff
Half-back: H. Hartlett, D. Byrne-Jones, R. Bonner
Centre: K. Amon, T. Rockliff, X. Duursma
Half-forward: S. Gray, C. Rozee, Z. Butters
Forward: T. Marshall, R. Gray, C. Dixon
Follower: P. Ryder, D. Houston, T. Boak
Int.: M. Broadbent, P. Ladhams, S. Powell-Pepper, C. Sutcliffe

Essendon (9.13.67) were defeated by Port Adelaide (19.12.126).

Goalkickers
Essendon: O. Fantasia (2), W. Snelling (2), J. Stringer (2), A. Francis, Z. Merrett, D. Shiel
Port Adelaide: R. Gray (4), T. Marshall (3), D. Houston (2), C. Rozee (2), K. Amon, T. Boak, Z. Butters, X. Duursma, S. Gray, S. Powell-Pepper, P. Ryder, C. Sutcliffe

As a result of this match, Essendon remained 7th on the ladder and Port Adelaide were then 9th on the ladder (up from 10th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2019 AFL Season
Round: Round 20
Teams: Essendon v Port Adelaide
Date: Saturday 3 August 2019
Time: 1:45 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 42,940

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. by Port Adelaide
Score: 9.13.67 - 19.12.126

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Essendon 2 . 4 5 . 7 8 . 10 9 . 13 9 . 13 (67)
Port Adelaide 5 . 2 8 . 5 14 . 9 19 . 12 19 . 12 (126)
Margin PADL by 16 PADL by 16 PADL by 35 PADL by 59 PADL by 59
Duration 32:41 31:12 32:02 28:36 2:04:31

Honour Roll

Coaches: John Worsfold (Essendon), Ken Hinkley (Port Adelaide)
Captains: Zach Merrett (Essendon), Tom Jonas (Port Adelaide)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: S. Meredith (#21), A. Stephens (#12), N. Williamson (#22)

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Dan Houston PADL 43 3
Robbie Gray PADL 9 2
Zach Merrett ESSE 7 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Dan Houston PADL 43 9 1 1 0 0 0
Robbie Gray PADL 9 7 0 1 1 0 0
Darcy Byrne-Jones PADL 33 5 ? 0 ? ? 0
Connor Rozee PADL 20 5 ? 0 ? ? 0
Xavier Duursma PADL 21 2 0 0 0 1 0
Todd Marshall PADL 13 1 0 0 0 0 1
Will Snelling ESSE 40 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
29 Ambrose, Patrick CHB 99% 0 0 10 6 4 5 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
28 Brown, Mitch CHF 94% 0 3 19 12 7 5 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 1
37 Clarke, Dylan RO 88% 0 0 14 6 8 2 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 1
20 Clarke, Zac RU 86% 0 1 10 7 3 5 16 2 2 3 2 2 0 3
13 Fantasia, Orazio INT 79% 2 0 11 7 4 3 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 4
10 Francis, Aaron HBFL 75% 1 0 14 8 6 3 0 2 0 3 0 1 4 2
8 Gleeson, Martin INT 83% 0 0 17 11 6 6 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 1
35 Guelfi, Matt INT 79% 0 2 13 8 5 5 0 4 0 2 0 0 3 2
36 Hartley, Michael FF 100% 0 0 16 12 4 6 0 2 0 3 0 2 3 1
26 Hooker, Cale FB 93% 0 0 13 9 4 5 1 1 0 3 2 1 2 1
4 Langford, Kyle INT 75% 0 0 15 7 8 3 0 1 1 3 2 1 0 2
43 McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony HFFR 90% 0 2 10 5 5 2 0 2 1 3 1 2 0 3
1 McGrath, Andrew FPR 87% 0 1 20 8 12 3 0 1 2 2 0 0 2 1
45 McKenna, Conor BPR 84% 0 0 21 17 4 3 0 2 2 3 1 0 3 5
7 Merrett, Zach (ac) C 77% 1 0 31 17 14 5 0 4 7 6 3 1 3 5
3 Parish, Darcy HFFL 23% 0 0 7 2 5 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3
27 Redman, Mason BPL 84% 0 0 19 14 5 1 0 0 1 3 0 1 5 1
42 Saad, Adam WR 66% 0 0 11 9 2 1 0 3 2 2 0 2 5 3
9 Shiel, Dylan RR 84% 1 1 29 10 19 3 0 1 6 3 2 1 1 4
40 Snelling, Will FPL 87% 2 0 21 7 14 3 0 5 1 0 3 0 0 3
25 Stringer, Jake WL 85% 2 2 14 11 3 3 0 6 4 2 1 0 1 3
11 Zaharakis, David HBFR 82% 0 0 19 7 12 3 0 1 0 1 2 0 2 3
Rushed 1
Total (22 players) 9 13 354 200 154 76 19 43 31 52 22 15 38 52

Port Adelaide

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
15 Amon, Karl WL 91% 1 1 23 12 11 7 0 3 2 1 0 1 2 2
10 Boak, Travis RO 74% 1 0 23 13 10 3 0 4 9 1 1 0 0 4
26 Bonner, Riley HBFR 76% 0 0 19 14 5 4 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 2
5 Broadbent, Matthew INT 82% 0 0 22 14 8 7 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 2
18 Butters, Zak HFFR 52% 1 0 8 3 5 2 0 2 0 2 1 2 0 0
33 Byrne-Jones, Darcy CHB 83% 0 0 25 19 6 7 0 5 0 3 0 2 7 4
17 Clurey, Tom FB 93% 0 0 11 11 0 8 0 1 0 1 2 1 5 0
22 Dixon, Charlie FPR 89% 0 0 5 5 0 3 2 1 0 4 1 2 0 2
21 Duursma, Xavier WR 83% 1 0 26 13 13 6 0 2 1 1 1 0 3 1
9 Gray, Robbie FF 82% 4 1 19 10 9 5 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 2
46 Gray, Sam HFFL 85% 1 1 19 11 8 8 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 2
8 Hartlett, Hamish HBFL 84% 0 0 23 16 7 5 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 4
43 Houston, Dan RR 82% 2 0 29 17 12 10 0 2 7 3 1 1 2 4
42 Jonas, Tom (c) BPL 93% 0 0 14 10 4 3 0 1 1 6 0 5 6 1
38 Ladhams, Peter INT 75% 0 0 18 7 11 2 22 2 7 1 2 1 2 5
13 Marshall, Todd FPL 69% 3 0 11 10 1 6 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 3
2 Powell-Pepper, Sam INT 78% 1 1 22 14 8 9 0 5 2 3 0 2 0 4
11 Rockliff, Tom C 89% 0 0 27 16 11 4 0 4 6 5 0 2 0 5
20 Rozee, Connor CHF 82% 2 5 22 13 9 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 5
4 Ryder, Paddy RU 88% 1 0 10 3 7 1 20 0 1 1 1 1 0 3
50 Sutcliffe, Cam INT 82% 1 1 17 11 6 5 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 3
39 Westhoff, Justin BPR 90% 0 0 17 13 4 7 0 1 0 2 0 1 4 0
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 19 12 410 255 155 117 45 43 42 41 15 22 41 58

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

Essendon Coach: John Worsfold
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
42 T. Jonas (c) 17 T. Clurey 39 J. Westhoff 20 Z. Clarke 13 O. Fantasia
1 A. McGrath 36 M. Hartley 40 W. Snelling 9 D. Shiel 8 M. Gleeson
FORWARD 37 D. Clarke 35 M. Guelfi
HALF-BACK

4 K. Langford
8 H. Hartlett 33 D. Byrne-Jones 26 R. Bonner



43 A. McDonald-Tipungwuti 28 M. Brown 3 D. Parish



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



15 K. Amon 11 T. Rockliff 21 X. Duursma



42 A. Saad 7 Z. Merrett (ac) 25 J. Stringer FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 4 P. Ryder 5 M. Broadbent
HALF-FORWARD 43 D. Houston 38 P. Ladhams
46 S. Gray 20 C. Rozee 18 Z. Butters 10 T. Boak 2 S. Powell-Pepper
11 D. Zaharakis 29 P. Ambrose 10 A. Francis

50 C. Sutcliffe
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



13 T. Marshall 9 R. Gray 22 C. Dixon



45 C. McKenna 26 C. Hooker 27 M. Redman



BACK



Port Adelaide Coach: Ken Hinkley

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Jake Stringer behind 0.1.1 - 0.0.0 01:00
PADL Sam Gray behind 0.1.1 - 0.1.1 07:06
PADL Robbie Gray goal 0.1.1 - 1.1.7 08:43
ESSE Andrew McGrath behind 0.2.2 - 1.1.7 10:55
PADL Todd Marshall goal 0.2.2 - 2.1.13 12:51
ESSE Orazio Fantasia goal 1.2.8 - 2.1.13 14:31
PADL Cam Sutcliffe goal 1.2.8 - 3.1.19 16:32
ESSE Zach Merrett goal 2.2.14 - 3.1.19 20:23
ESSE Dylan Shiel behind 2.3.15 - 3.1.19 22:43
PADL Robbie Gray goal 2.3.15 - 4.1.25 24:06
PADL Cam Sutcliffe behind 2.3.15 - 4.2.26 26:35
PADL Zak Butters goal 2.3.15 - 5.2.32 28:21
ESSE Rushed behind 2.4.16 - 5.2.32 32:25
Q2 ESSE Mitch Brown behind 2.5.17 - 5.2.32 00:33
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti behind 2.6.18 - 5.2.32 03:30
PADL Connor Rozee behind 2.6.18 - 5.3.33 05:47
PADL Robbie Gray goal 2.6.18 - 6.3.39 10:14
PADL Karl Amon behind 2.6.18 - 6.4.40 11:59
ESSE Dylan Shiel goal 3.6.24 - 6.4.40 14:20
PADL Dan Houston goal 3.6.24 - 7.4.46 18:23
ESSE Matt Guelfi behind 3.7.25 - 7.4.46 22:53
ESSE Will Snelling goal 4.7.31 - 7.4.46 23:34
PADL Connor Rozee behind 4.7.31 - 7.5.47 25:45
ESSE Will Snelling goal 5.7.37 - 7.5.47 26:50
PADL Travis Boak goal 5.7.37 - 8.5.53 30:17
Q3 PADL Rushed behind 5.7.37 - 8.6.54 00:39
PADL Xavier Duursma goal 5.7.37 - 9.6.60 02:17
ESSE Aaron Francis goal 6.7.43 - 9.6.60 04:53
PADL Connor Rozee behind 6.7.43 - 9.7.61 06:50
PADL Connor Rozee goal 6.7.43 - 10.7.67 07:57
ESSE Orazio Fantasia goal 7.7.49 - 10.7.67 09:13
ESSE Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti behind 7.8.50 - 10.7.67 10:54
PADL Connor Rozee behind 7.8.50 - 10.8.68 12:47
PADL Sam Gray goal 7.8.50 - 11.8.74 15:03
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 8.8.56 - 11.8.74 17:08
PADL Connor Rozee goal 8.8.56 - 12.8.80 18:49
ESSE Matt Guelfi behind 8.9.57 - 12.8.80 20:22
PADL Todd Marshall goal 8.9.57 - 13.8.86 24:33
PADL Karl Amon goal 8.9.57 - 14.8.92 26:03
PADL Robbie Gray behind 8.9.57 - 14.9.93 30:55
ESSE Zac Clarke behind 8.10.58 - 14.9.93 31:59
Q4 ESSE Mitch Brown behind 8.11.59 - 14.9.93 02:43
PADL Robbie Gray goal 8.11.59 - 15.9.99 03:21
PADL Paddy Ryder goal 8.11.59 - 16.9.105 05:36
PADL Connor Rozee behind 8.11.59 - 16.10.106 06:47
PADL Sam Powell-Pepper behind 8.11.59 - 16.11.107 09:11
PADL Sam Powell-Pepper goal 8.11.59 - 17.11.113 12:50
ESSE Jake Stringer goal 9.11.65 - 17.11.113 15:16
PADL Rushed behind 9.11.65 - 17.12.114 17:07
PADL Todd Marshall goal 9.11.65 - 18.12.120 18:21
ESSE Jake Stringer behind 9.12.66 - 18.12.120 21:46
ESSE Mitch Brown behind 9.13.67 - 18.12.120 23:44
PADL Dan Houston goal 9.13.67 - 19.12.126 25:45