2020 AFL Season Round 8: Adelaide v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 26 July 2020 between Adelaide and Essendon during round eight of the 2020 season of the Australian Football League. Adelaide hosted Essendon at Adelaide Oval. The hosts were coached by Matthew Nicks and the visitors were coached by John Worsfold.

Adelaide (8.11.59) were defeated by Essendon (9.8.62).

Match Details

Season: 2020 AFL Season
Round: Round 8
Teams: Adelaide v Essendon
Date: Sunday 26 July 2020
Time: 12:35 PM
Venue: Adelaide Oval
Attendance: 15,155

Match Results

Outcome: Adelaide def. by Essendon
Score: 8.11.59 - 9.8.62

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Adelaide	2	.	1	4	.	3	7	.	5	8	.	11	8	.	11	(59)
Essendon	2	.	1	5	.	4	8	.	5	9	.	8	9	.	8	(62)
Margin	level			ESSE by 7			ESSE by 6			ESSE by 3			ESSE by 3
Duration	27:54			25:47			25:14			23:54			1:42:49

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Adelaide

Captain: unknown
Coach: Matthew Nicks

Essendon

Captain: unknown
Coach: John Worsfold

Match Umpires

Field Umpires

H. Gavine (#14)
B. Wallace (#33)
A. Whetton (#19)

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	3
Andrew McGrath	ESSE	1	2
Brodie Smith	ADEL	33	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1
Andrew McGrath	ESSE	1	8	?	?	?	0	0
Zach Merrett	ESSE	7	7	?	?	?	?	0
Brodie Smith	ADEL	33	7	?	?	?	?	0
Jordan Ridley	ESSE	14	6	0	?	?	?	0
Darcy Parish	ESSE	3	1	0	0	0	0	1
Paul Seedsman	ADEL	11	1	0	0	0	0	1

Player Statistics

Adelaide

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
16	Brown, Luke	BPL	90%	0	1	14	8	6	1	0	5	1	1	0	0	4	0
2	Crouch, Brad	HFFR	23%	0	0	5	3	2	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	0
5	Crouch, Matt	INT	76%	0	0	26	12	14	4	0	2	5	2	1	1	5	2
39	Doedee, Tom	CHB	56%	0	0	7	4	3	2	0	1	1	2	1	0	1	0
17	Hamill, Will	HBFL	90%	0	0	17	9	8	0	0	6	0	1	2	0	4	0
15	Hartigan, Kyle	BPR	91%	0	0	9	5	4	0	0	4	0	3	1	2	3	0
34	Himmelberg, Elliott	HFFL	90%	0	1	8	4	4	3	1	0	0	4	0	2	0	3
1	Jones, Chayce	C	80%	0	0	6	2	4	2	0	1	1	5	1	3	0	2
28	Keays, Ben	INT	84%	0	1	21	8	13	3	0	4	5	0	1	0	0	4
29	Laird, Rory	HBFR	80%	0	0	21	8	13	3	0	3	2	2	1	1	5	0
27	Lynch, Tom	WR	91%	0	1	14	11	3	4	0	0	1	4	1	1	0	2
14	MacKay, David	WL	83%	0	0	13	4	9	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	3
23	McAdam, Shane	FPR	84%	0	1	9	4	5	1	0	3	0	1	2	1	0	3
35	McAsey, Fischer	INT	83%	0	0	7	3	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
36	McPherson, Andrew	INT	83%	0	0	19	10	9	4	0	3	0	4	0	1	6	1
4	Murphy, Lachlan	RR	82%	3	1	16	10	6	4	0	1	0	2	2	1	1	3
43	O'Brien, Reilly	RU	96%	0	0	19	8	11	2	26	1	4	7	0	3	0	1
11	Seedsman, Paul	RO	87%	1	2	22	11	11	5	0	7	1	2	1	1	0	7
33	Smith, Brodie	CHF	77%	1	0	24	19	5	3	0	2	3	3	0	0	2	10
18	Stengle, Tyson	FPL	85%	1	1	18	8	10	1	0	3	1	2	0	0	0	1
12	Talia, Daniel	FB	95%	0	0	13	9	4	6	0	2	2	2	2	2	5	0
13	Walker, Taylor	FF	94%	2	1	9	7	2	5	0	2	1	2	0	1	0	1
Rushed					1
Total (22 players)				8	11	317	167	150	55	27	54	29	52	16	20	38	45

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
2	Bellchambers, Tom	RU	88%	0	0	10	8	2	2	19	3	4	2	3	1	1	3
28	Cahill, Ned	INT	76%	2	1	7	3	4	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0
10	Francis, Aaron	FB	86%	0	0	9	5	4	3	0	1	0	0	2	0	4	0
8	Gleeson, Martin	INT	83%	0	0	7	4	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	1
33	Ham, Brayden	WR	84%	0	0	8	6	2	2	0	3	0	3	1	0	2	5
46	Hibberd, Mitchell	INT	80%	0	0	15	8	7	2	0	9	2	2	1	0	1	1
18	Hurley, Michael	BPR	90%	0	0	15	8	7	7	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	0
4	Langford, Kyle	WL	90%	2	0	19	10	9	4	0	1	2	4	2	1	0	2
15	Laverde, Jayden	FPR	27%	1	0	5	4	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1
43	McDonald-Tipungwuti, Anthony	FPL	88%	2	0	13	8	5	1	0	3	0	3	0	1	0	2
1	McGrath, Andrew	RO	85%	0	1	25	16	9	3	0	10	8	3	2	0	4	2
45	McKenna, Conor	HBFL	86%	0	0	14	10	4	3	0	2	2	8	1	1	1	4
44	McKernan, Shaun	FF	89%	0	0	9	6	3	3	6	3	1	6	1	2	0	2
7	Merrett, Zach	C	74%	0	0	33	20	13	9	0	6	6	3	1	0	2	6
3	Parish, Darcy	HFFR	82%	1	0	22	8	14	1	0	3	4	5	0	0	0	4
27	Redman, Mason	BPL	73%	0	0	13	9	4	2	0	2	0	4	0	2	5	1
14	Ridley, Jordan	CHB	92%	0	0	18	12	6	6	0	3	1	1	1	1	4	2
42	Saad, Adam	HBFR	90%	0	0	19	12	7	5	0	4	2	1	0	1	4	3
5	Smith, Devon	HFFL	85%	0	1	13	5	8	2	0	3	0	5	0	1	0	3
40	Snelling, Will	RR	88%	0	0	18	4	14	3	0	10	2	6	2	1	2	3
20	Townsend, Jacob	INT	79%	1	1	10	5	5	2	0	4	0	3	2	2	0	0
11	Zaharakis, David	CHF	85%	0	2	20	5	15	1	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	2
Rushed					2
Total (22 players)				9	8	322	176	146	66	25	75	37	64	20	16	37	47

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

Adelaide							Coach: Matthew Nicks
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	27	M. Redman	10	A. Francis	18	M. Hurley	43	R. O'Brien	5	M. Crouch
	23	S. McAdam	13	T. Walker	18	T. Stengle	4	L. Murphy	28	B. Keays
FORWARD							11	P. Seedsman	35	F. McAsey
HALF-BACK									36	A. McPherson
	45	C. McKenna	14	J. Ridley	42	A. Saad
	2	B. Crouch	33	B. Smith	34	E. Himmelberg
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	4	K. Langford	7	Z. Merrett	33	B. Ham
	27	T. Lynch	1	C. Jones	14	D. MacKay	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							2	T. Bellchambers	28	N. Cahill
HALF-FORWARD							40	W. Snelling	8	M. Gleeson
	5	D. Smith	11	D. Zaharakis	3	D. Parish	1	A. McGrath	46	M. Hibberd
	29	R. Laird	39	T. Doedee	17	W. Hamill			20	J. Townsend
HALF-BACK
FORWARD
	43	A. McDonald-Tipungwuti	44	S. McKernan	15	J. Laverde
	15	K. Hartigan	12	D. Talia	16	L. Brown
BACK
Essendon							Coach: John Worsfold

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	ESSE	Jayden Laverde goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	03:17
	ADEL	Tyson Stengle goal	1.0.6	-	1.0.6	06:09
	ESSE	Ned Cahill behind	1.0.6	-	1.1.7	07:52
	ADEL	Taylor Walker behind	1.1.7	-	1.1.7	14:42
	ESSE	Jacob Townsend goal	1.1.7	-	2.1.13	22:46
	ADEL	Lachlan Murphy goal	2.1.13	-	2.1.13	27:52
Q2	ESSE	Rushed behind	2.1.13	-	2.2.14	00:55
	ADEL	Tom Lynch behind	2.2.14	-	2.2.14	02:05
	ADEL	Brodie Smith goal	3.2.20	-	2.2.14	03:58
	ESSE	Darcy Parish goal	3.2.20	-	3.2.20	07:06
	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	3.2.20	-	4.2.26	08:27
	ESSE	David Zaharakis behind	3.2.20	-	4.3.27	14:45
	ESSE	Devon Smith behind	3.2.20	-	4.4.28	16:23
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	4.2.26	-	4.4.28	17:57
	ADEL	Elliott Himmelberg behind	4.3.27	-	4.4.28	20:04
	ESSE	Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti goal	4.3.27	-	5.4.34	21:58
Q3	ESSE	David Zaharakis behind	4.3.27	-	5.5.35	01:41
	ADEL	Taylor Walker goal	5.3.33	-	5.5.35	02:57
	ADEL	Paul Seedsman behind	5.4.34	-	5.5.35	05:24
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	5.4.34	-	6.5.41	06:23
	ESSE	Ned Cahill goal	5.4.34	-	7.5.47	11:17
	ESSE	Kyle Langford goal	5.4.34	-	8.5.53	15:31
	ADEL	Shane McAdam behind	5.5.35	-	8.5.53	16:57
	ADEL	Lachlan Murphy goal	6.5.41	-	8.5.53	19:10
	ADEL	Paul Seedsman goal	7.5.47	-	8.5.53	23:33
Q4	ADEL	Ben Keays behind	7.6.48	-	8.5.53	02:40
	ADEL	Lachlan Murphy behind	7.7.49	-	8.5.53	04:40
	ESSE	Jacob Townsend behind	7.7.49	-	8.6.54	05:33
	ESSE	Rushed behind	7.7.49	-	8.7.55	06:15
	ESSE	Ned Cahill goal	7.7.49	-	9.7.61	07:22
	ADEL	Tyson Stengle behind	7.8.50	-	9.7.61	10:46
	ADEL	Luke Brown behind	7.9.51	-	9.7.61	10:56
	ESSE	Andrew McGrath behind	7.9.51	-	9.8.62	12:47
	ADEL	Lachlan Murphy goal	8.9.57	-	9.8.62	16:25
	ADEL	Paul Seedsman behind	8.10.58	-	9.8.62	19:51
	ADEL	Rushed behind	8.11.59	-	9.8.62	20:35

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