2025 AFL Season Round 10: Essendon v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 10 May 2025 between Essendon and Sydney during round ten of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Essendon hosted Sydney at Marvel Stadium. Zach Merrett captained the hosts with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Brad Scott and the visitors were coached by Dean Cox.

Essendon (11.5.71) defeated Sydney (8.15.63).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 10
Teams: Essendon v Sydney
Date: Saturday 10 May 2025
Time: 4:15 PM
Venue: Marvel Stadium
Attendance: 43,799

Match Results

Outcome: Essendon def. Sydney
Score: 11.5.71 - 8.15.63

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Essendon	3	.	1	9	.	1	11	.	4	11	.	5	11	.	5	(71)
Sydney	1	.	1	2	.	4	5	.	10	8	.	15	8	.	15	(63)
Margin	ESSE by 12			ESSE by 39			ESSE by 30			ESSE by 8			ESSE by 8
Duration	29:04			32:03			32:00			27:55			2:01:02

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Essendon

Captain: Zach Merrett
Vice-Captain: Andrew McGrath
Coach: Brad Scott

Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Dean Cox

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Andrew McGrath	ESSE	1	3
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	2
Nick Blakey	SYDN	22	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Caddy, Nate	CHF	70%	3	1	16	12	4	7	0	3	0	5	1	1	0	6
6	Caldwell, Jye	INT	68%	0	0	22	8	14	3	0	4	4	4	1	2	1	3
44	Day-Wicks, Archer	WR	65%	1	0	6	1	5	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	0
22	Durham, Sam	RO	77%	1	1	21	8	13	2	0	8	4	7	2	4	2	0
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT	77%	0	0	19	11	8	5	0	4	0	2	1	1	3	2
41	El-Hawli, Saad	INT	80%	1	0	21	15	6	6	0	0	2	5	1	0	2	4
17	Goldstein, Todd	RU	82%	0	0	19	6	13	6	29	0	5	1	4	1	3	0
18	Hayes, Lewis	BPR↓	67%	0	0	16	6	10	3	0	2	1	1	0	1	2	1
8	Hobbs, Ben	INT	74%	0	0	15	5	10	2	0	2	3	1	1	0	1	0
10	Kako, Isaac	FPR	76%	1	0	6	3	3	1	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	0
4	Langford, Kyle	FPL	87%	0	1	11	5	6	2	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	2
37	Martin, Nic	HFFR	100%	0	0	38	22	16	8	0	5	1	5	2	1	10	6
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	BPL	88%	0	0	35	18	17	11	0	1	2	1	0	0	9	4
32	McKay, Ben	FB	100%	0	0	12	6	6	7	0	1	0	3	2	3	1	0
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	C	86%	2	0	19	16	3	3	0	2	4	5	0	1	1	6
16	Perkins, Archie	HFFL	78%	1	0	15	8	7	3	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	1
25	Prior, Jaxon	HBFR	86%	0	0	23	17	6	14	0	2	0	3	2	0	5	2
27	Redman, Mason	HBFL	81%	1	0	32	19	13	6	0	0	0	1	1	0	3	3
31	Reid, Zach	CHB	100%	0	0	27	18	9	14	0	1	1	3	0	0	5	0
21	Roberts, Archie	WL	78%	0	0	27	11	16	7	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1
12	Setterfield, Will	RR	78%	0	1	28	11	17	9	0	8	3	1	1	1	1	1
9	Shiel, Dylan	SUB↑	20%	0	0	5	2	3	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	Wright, Peter	FF	81%	0	0	11	6	5	5	6	3	0	2	0	1	1	3
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				11	5	444	234	210	126	35	60	32	56	21	17	53	45

D. Shiel replaced L. Hayes.

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
26	Bice, Riley	INT	87%	0	0	17	8	9	4	0	3	0	2	0	0	2	5
22	Blakey, Nick	CHB	78%	0	0	22	21	1	13	0	3	0	0	1	0	8	1
16	Campbell, Braeden	HFFL	82%	1	1	15	11	4	7	0	2	0	3	0	1	0	6
33	Cleary, Caiden	FPR	74%	0	0	10	2	8	2	0	3	1	3	0	1	1	1
13	Florent, Oliver	WL	84%	0	0	17	13	4	5	0	1	0	3	1	0	1	4
10	Francis, Aaron	FF	71%	0	2	8	4	4	3	0	0	0	4	0	2	0	1
4	Grundy, Brodie	RU	84%	1	1	23	10	13	2	32	5	7	6	3	3	1	3
29	Hamling, Joel	CHF	79%	0	1	6	3	3	0	0	1	0	4	2	2	0	2
9	Hayward, Will	FPL	84%	2	1	14	9	5	2	0	2	0	6	1	1	0	1
5	Heeney, Isaac	C	89%	0	2	19	11	8	3	0	6	5	2	1	1	0	3
17	Jordon, James	HFFR	80%	0	0	9	6	3	2	0	8	0	1	0	1	2	1
44	Lloyd, Jake	WR	86%	0	1	22	10	12	5	0	1	0	3	0	2	2	0
30	McCartin, Tom	FB	98%	0	0	15	10	5	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	2
27	McInerney, Justin	RO	82%	1	1	22	15	7	5	0	0	2	4	2	0	3	5
2	McLean, Hayden	INT	69%	1	1	7	4	3	2	0	2	1	3	1	1	2	0
25	Paton, Ben	BPL↓	49%	0	0	3	2	1	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1
24	Rampe, Dane	HBFR	78%	0	0	10	6	4	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	3
34	Roberts, Matt	BPR	86%	0	1	26	17	9	8	0	0	1	5	0	0	4	4
8	Rowbottom, James	INT	73%	0	0	21	14	7	4	0	4	6	3	3	1	1	6
12	Sheldrick, Angus	SUB↑	33%	1	0	13	7	6	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
1	Warner, Chad	RR	93%	0	2	25	13	12	3	0	4	7	4	2	2	0	7
37	Warner, Corey	INT	77%	1	0	11	7	4	4	0	0	0	3	0	2	1	2
15	Wicks, Sam	HBFL	86%	0	0	13	5	8	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				8	15	348	208	140	92	32	46	32	66	17	21	33	61

A. Sheldrick replaced B. Paton.

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: Brad Scott
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	25	B. Paton	30	T. McCartin	34	M. Roberts	17	T. Goldstein	6	J. Caldwell
	10	I. Kako	20	P. Wright	4	K. Langford	12	W. Setterfield	28	X. Duursma
FORWARD							22	S. Durham	41	S. El-Hawli
HALF-BACK									8	B. Hobbs
	15	S. Wicks	22	N. Blakey	24	D. Rampe			9	D. Shiel
	37	N. Martin	30	N. Caddy	16	A. Perkins
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	13	O. Florent	5	I. Heeney	44	J. Lloyd
	44	A. Day-Wicks	7	Z. Merrett (c)	21	A. Roberts	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							4	B. Grundy	26	R. Bice
HALF-FORWARD							1	C. Warner	2	H. McLean
	16	B. Campbell	29	J. Hamling	17	J. Jordon	27	J. McInerney	8	J. Rowbottom
	25	J. Prior	31	Z. Reid	27	M. Redman			37	C. Warner
HALF-BACK									12	A. Sheldrick
FORWARD
	9	W. Hayward	10	A. Francis	33	C. Cleary
	18	L. Hayes	32	B. McKay	1	A. McGrath (vc)
BACK
Sydney							Coach: Dean Cox

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Matt Roberts behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	03:28
	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	1.0.6	-	0.1.1	07:23
	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	2.0.12	-	0.1.1	13:20
	ESSE	Saad El-Hawli goal	3.0.18	-	0.1.1	16:36
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	3.0.18	-	1.1.7	18:32
	ESSE	Kyle Langford behind	3.1.19	-	1.1.7	25:56
Q2	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	4.1.25	-	1.1.7	05:51
	ESSE	Archer Day-Wicks goal	5.1.31	-	1.1.7	07:07
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	5.1.31	-	1.2.8	09:38
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	6.1.37	-	1.2.8	10:33
	ESSE	Zach Merrett goal	7.1.43	-	1.2.8	13:48
	SYDN	Brodie Grundy goal	7.1.43	-	2.2.14	16:33
	SYDN	Aaron Francis behind	7.1.43	-	2.3.15	19:32
	SYDN	Will Hayward behind	7.1.43	-	2.4.16	20:47
	ESSE	Isaac Kako goal	8.1.49	-	2.4.16	25:34
	ESSE	Sam Durham goal	9.1.55	-	2.4.16	30:08
Q3	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	9.1.55	-	3.4.22	03:58
	ESSE	Mason Redman goal	10.1.61	-	3.4.22	05:43
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell goal	10.1.61	-	4.4.28	07:59
	SYDN	Rushed behind	10.1.61	-	4.5.29	10:50
	ESSE	Nate Caddy behind	10.2.62	-	4.5.29	12:08
	SYDN	Aaron Francis behind	10.2.62	-	4.6.30	14:17
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	10.2.62	-	4.7.31	15:11
	ESSE	Nate Caddy goal	11.2.68	-	4.7.31	16:12
	ESSE	Sam Durham behind	11.3.69	-	4.7.31	20:41
	SYDN	Corey Warner goal	11.3.69	-	5.7.37	21:33
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney behind	11.3.69	-	5.8.38	25:27
	SYDN	Brodie Grundy behind	11.3.69	-	5.9.39	28:21
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	11.3.69	-	5.10.40	29:13
	ESSE	Will Setterfield behind	11.4.70	-	5.10.40	31:55
Q4	SYDN	Joel Hamling behind	11.4.70	-	5.11.41	04:54
	SYDN	Braeden Campbell behind	11.4.70	-	5.12.42	07:07
	SYDN	Angus Sheldrick goal	11.4.70	-	6.12.48	09:14
	SYDN	Justin McInerney goal	11.4.70	-	7.12.54	10:46
	SYDN	Jake Lloyd behind	11.4.70	-	7.13.55	13:28
	SYDN	Justin McInerney behind	11.4.70	-	7.14.56	18:13
	ESSE	Rushed behind	11.5.71	-	7.14.56	19:26
	SYDN	Will Hayward goal	11.5.71	-	8.14.62	19:53
	SYDN	Hayden McLean behind	11.5.71	-	8.15.63	21:35

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