AFL Pro Previews - Adelaide v Port Adelaide, Round 8 2024

Thursday night start to Round 8 with the Showdown...

Adelaide v Port Adelaide
Thursday 7:30pm, Adelaide Oval

Adelaide 2.05
Port Adelaide 1.77
Adelaide +3.5 / Port Adelaide -3.5

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Changes:

📈 The Crows get Brodie Smith and Jordan Butts back and give a game to Daniel Curtin who makes his debut. They drop Hamill and Borlase, with Pedlar out injured. Positive.

📉 Port lose Aliir Aliir (concussion) and Powell-Pepper (knee) and bring back Burton and McEntee. There is no spot for trout-mouth, Jeremy FInlayson. Negative.

Head to Head:

Last year's 2 meetings were split with the Crows winning R3 by 31 points and then the Power won R20 by 47 points. Going back to the start of 2019, the score sits 6-3 in favour of Port Adelaide.

Last week:

Adelaide went to Tassie to and came home with the chocolates after a 57-point smashing of the Roos. They won all the key stats, Disposal 385-319, Inside 50s 60-41, Clearances 44-35, Contested Ball 142-124 and Tackles 57-45. It was an excellent performance against a team in real trouble. 

Port outlasted the Saints by 10 points in a game that had 9 lead changes. Port's biggest lead was 21 points midway through Q4 but the Saints kept fighting until the end. Port won the Disposal 353-315, Inside 50s 53-46, Clearances 34-30, Contested Ball 139-118 (a big win) and Tackles 83-55 (a smashing).  

What we can expect this week:

It will be interesting to see if Connor Rozee takes his place as he appeared to suffer a hamstring injury last Friday but is named here. The last 3 showdowns haven't been close but with some injuries to Port and Adelaide with some confidence after smashing North, this might be a bit closer. Still think Port should pack too many punches though and should be able to cover the -7.5 (opened at -3.5) line with Bet Right just here 

Port Adelaide -7.5

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