2025 AFL Season Round 14: Carlton v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 8 June 2025 between Carlton and Essendon during round fourteen of the 2025 season of the Australian Football League. Carlton hosted Essendon at the MCG. Patrick Cripps captained the hosts. Zach Merrett captained the visitors with Andrew McGrath as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Michael Voss and the visitors were coached by Brad Scott.

Carlton (11.12.78) defeated Essendon (11.4.70).

Match Details

Season: 2025 AFL Season
Round: Round 14
Teams: Carlton v Essendon
Date: Sunday 8 June 2025
Time: 7:20 PM
Venue: MCG
Attendance: 74,280

Match Results

Outcome: Carlton def. Essendon
Score: 11.12.78 - 11.4.70

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Carlton	6	.	4	8	.	6	9	.	8	11	.	12	11	.	12	(78)
Essendon	1	.	1	4	.	2	8	.	3	11	.	4	11	.	4	(70)
Margin	CARL by 33			CARL by 28			CARL by 11			CARL by 8			CARL by 8
Duration	33:54			32:44			31:37			29:37			2:07:52

Score Worm

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

Honour Roll

Carlton

Captain: Patrick Cripps
Coach: Michael Voss

Essendon

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

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Tom De Koning	CARL	12	3
Sam Walsh	CARL	18	2
Nic Martin	ESSE	37	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Carlton

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
13	Acres, Blake	WR	91%	1	1	29	17	12	8	0	1	4	4	1	2	4	5
32	Carroll, Matt	HFFL↓	62%	0	0	11	9	2	5	0	2	1	5	1	2	4	2
5	Cerra, Adam	RR	70%	0	0	24	14	10	5	0	7	7	4	2	0	0	6
39	Cincotta, Alex	HBFR	83%	0	0	3	0	3	2	0	3	0	2	0	2	0	1
9	Cripps, Patrick (c)	C	87%	0	1	15	8	7	0	0	6	4	3	2	3	1	2
30	Curnow, Charlie	CHF	92%	2	2	13	11	2	7	0	3	0	3	2	2	0	2
12	De Koning, Tom	RU	79%	1	1	23	12	11	5	29	3	7	3	3	1	1	2
15	Docherty, Sam	INT	82%	0	0	26	21	5	13	0	0	2	1	0	0	8	0
14	Fantasia, Orazio	INT	72%	1	0	5	2	3	0	0	4	1	2	1	1	0	1
8	Fogarty, Lachie	HFFR	80%	0	0	10	3	7	2	0	3	1	2	0	1	0	0
26	Haynes, Nick	CHB	87%	0	0	17	16	1	11	0	3	0	4	1	1	6	4
29	Hewett, George	INT	75%	0	0	29	14	15	5	0	9	1	3	2	0	1	8
4	Hollands, Oliver	BPR	85%	0	0	23	16	7	10	0	4	0	1	1	0	3	4
36	Lord, Cooper	WL	84%	0	0	21	13	8	4	0	4	1	3	1	1	3	2
11	McGovern, Mitch	FPL	75%	1	1	11	8	3	5	0	3	0	1	0	0	2	4
3	Motlop, Jesse	INT	81%	2	2	12	9	3	8	0	5	0	4	0	4	0	2
40	O'Keeffe, Hudson	FF	73%	0	1	7	5	2	5	8	4	0	3	0	1	0	0
42	Saad, Adam	HBFL	84%	1	0	16	13	3	1	0	4	0	5	2	0	4	2
1	Silvagni, Jack	BPL	86%	0	0	17	10	7	6	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	1
18	Walsh, Sam	RO	80%	0	1	32	14	18	5	0	3	7	5	2	1	2	4
23	Weitering, Jacob	FB	100%	0	0	8	8	0	5	0	1	0	2	1	2	2	0
38	White, Will	SUB↑	21%	0	0	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1
6	Williams, Zac	FPR	73%	2	1	15	13	2	3	0	1	3	3	1	1	0	3
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				11	12	371	239	132	115	37	73	39	66	25	25	44	56

W. White replaced M. Carroll.

Essendon

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
30	Caddy, Nate	CHF	91%	0	0	10	7	3	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	3
6	Caldwell, Jye	RR	79%	1	0	26	16	10	2	0	8	5	8	1	1	0	5
36	Clarke, Angus	WR	85%	0	1	14	10	4	5	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
44	Day-Wicks, Archer	SUB↑	18%	0	0	6	3	3	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1
22	Durham, Sam	RO	84%	0	0	27	13	14	4	0	3	6	11	2	4	3	5
28	Duursma, Xavier	INT	86%	1	0	20	9	11	2	0	3	3	2	1	0	2	1
17	Goldstein, Todd	RU	77%	0	0	9	0	9	0	20	1	3	3	1	3	0	0
11	Gresham, Jade	HBFL	77%	2	1	19	9	10	4	0	4	1	5	0	2	2	2
35	Guelfi, Matt	WL	79%	1	1	9	5	4	2	0	5	0	2	1	0	0	1
8	Hobbs, Ben	FPL	68%	0	0	8	5	3	0	0	5	2	1	0	1	0	3
40	Johnson, Zak	INT	67%	0	0	18	14	4	5	0	3	0	2	5	1	5	3
10	Kako, Isaac	INT	77%	0	0	10	1	9	0	0	3	0	3	0	2	0	2
15	Laverde, Jayden	FB	96%	0	0	10	9	1	5	0	3	0	5	1	2	3	0
34	Lual, Luamon	CHB	71%	1	0	11	5	6	3	0	5	0	4	0	1	1	1
37	Martin, Nic	HFFR	90%	1	0	32	16	16	3	0	4	0	5	1	2	7	5
1	McGrath, Andrew (vc)	BPL	83%	0	0	23	10	13	5	0	2	1	0	3	0	6	2
7	Merrett, Zach (c)	C	83%	0	0	14	8	6	2	0	9	1	1	1	0	4	1
3	Parish, Darcy	INT	71%	0	0	31	12	19	2	0	2	10	5	1	0	1	6
16	Perkins, Archie	HFFL↓	65%	1	0	11	5	6	1	0	2	0	3	1	2	0	3
25	Prior, Jaxon	HBFR	100%	0	0	13	8	5	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	1
21	Roberts, Archie	BPR	90%	0	0	14	8	6	5	0	1	0	6	1	2	5	2
12	Setterfield, Will	FPR	76%	0	0	17	8	9	3	0	7	3	1	2	1	1	6
20	Wright, Peter	FF	88%	3	0	10	7	3	4	12	4	2	1	3	1	0	2
Rushed					1
Total (23 players)				11	4	362	188	174	65	32	78	38	74	25	25	44	55

A. Day-Wicks replaced A. Perkins.

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

Carlton							Coach: Michael Voss
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	1	A. McGrath (vc)	15	J. Laverde	21	A. Roberts	12	T. De Koning	15	S. Docherty
	6	Z. Williams	40	H. O'Keeffe	11	M. McGovern	5	A. Cerra	14	O. Fantasia
FORWARD							18	S. Walsh	29	G. Hewett
HALF-BACK									3	J. Motlop
	11	J. Gresham	34	L. Lual	25	J. Prior			38	W. White
	8	L. Fogarty	30	C. Curnow	32	M. Carroll
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	35	M. Guelfi	7	Z. Merrett (c)	36	A. Clarke
	13	B. Acres	9	P. Cripps (c)	36	C. Lord	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							17	T. Goldstein	28	X. Duursma
HALF-FORWARD							6	J. Caldwell	40	Z. Johnson
	16	A. Perkins	30	N. Caddy	37	N. Martin	22	S. Durham	10	I. Kako
	39	A. Cincotta	26	N. Haynes	42	A. Saad			3	D. Parish
HALF-BACK									44	A. Day-Wicks
FORWARD
	8	B. Hobbs	20	P. Wright	12	W. Setterfield
	4	O. Hollands	23	J. Weitering	1	J. Silvagni
BACK
Essendon							Coach: Brad Scott

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	CARL	Adam Saad goal	1.0.6	-	0.0.0	01:25
	CARL	Tom De Koning behind	1.1.7	-	0.0.0	05:49
	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	2.1.13	-	0.0.0	07:28
	CARL	Jesse Motlop goal	3.1.19	-	0.0.0	09:53
	CARL	Sam Walsh behind	3.2.20	-	0.0.0	10:57
	CARL	Zac Williams behind	3.3.21	-	0.0.0	11:21
	CARL	Mitch McGovern goal	4.3.27	-	0.0.0	14:28
	CARL	Charlie Curnow behind	4.4.28	-	0.0.0	19:01
	ESSE	Luamon Lual goal	4.4.28	-	1.0.6	21:28
	CARL	Charlie Curnow goal	5.4.34	-	1.0.6	24:56
	CARL	Zac Williams goal	6.4.40	-	1.0.6	27:27
	ESSE	Angus Clarke behind	6.4.40	-	1.1.7	30:48
Q2	ESSE	Matt Guelfi behind	6.4.40	-	1.2.8	06:53
	CARL	Orazio Fantasia goal	7.4.46	-	1.2.8	10:45
	ESSE	Jye Caldwell goal	7.4.46	-	2.2.14	15:32
	ESSE	Archie Perkins goal	7.4.46	-	3.2.20	17:29
	CARL	Jesse Motlop behind	7.5.47	-	3.2.20	23:44
	CARL	Patrick Cripps behind	7.6.48	-	3.2.20	24:48
	CARL	Tom De Koning goal	8.6.54	-	3.2.20	30:18
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	8.6.54	-	4.2.26	32:39
Q3	ESSE	Matt Guelfi goal	8.6.54	-	5.2.32	00:29
	ESSE	Rushed behind	8.6.54	-	5.3.33	05:47
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	8.6.54	-	6.3.39	07:31
	ESSE	Peter Wright goal	8.6.54	-	7.3.45	11:27
	CARL	Charlie Curnow behind	8.7.55	-	7.3.45	18:09
	CARL	Jesse Motlop goal	9.7.61	-	7.3.45	25:23
	ESSE	Jade Gresham goal	9.7.61	-	8.3.51	26:58
	CARL	Mitch McGovern behind	9.8.62	-	8.3.51	30:50
Q4	CARL	Blake Acres goal	10.8.68	-	8.3.51	01:22
	CARL	Hudson O'Keeffe behind	10.9.69	-	8.3.51	04:27
	ESSE	Jade Gresham behind	10.9.69	-	8.4.52	10:00
	CARL	Zac Williams goal	11.9.75	-	8.4.52	11:15
	ESSE	Jade Gresham goal	11.9.75	-	9.4.58	15:05
	CARL	Jesse Motlop behind	11.10.76	-	9.4.58	17:27
	ESSE	Nic Martin goal	11.10.76	-	10.4.64	18:52
	ESSE	Xavier Duursma goal	11.10.76	-	11.4.70	22:53
	CARL	Rushed behind	11.11.77	-	11.4.70	25:10
	CARL	Blake Acres behind	11.12.78	-	11.4.70	28:01

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