AFL Pro Previews - Western Bulldogs v Essendon, Round 5 2024

Friday night is from Marvel Stadium featuring two teams that play Marvel well.

Western Bulldogs v Essendon
Friday 7:40pm, Marvel

Western Bulldogs 1.45
Essendon 2.75
Western Bulldogs -15.5 / Essendon +15.5

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Changes:

📈 Bevo has dropped Caleb Daniel, a big call, and brought in James O'Donnell. Guess that's a Positive.

📉 The Bombers have been forced into 2 changes with Setterfield and Perkins out injured. They bring in Sam Durham and Alwyn Davey. That's the start of a small Negative slide.

Head to Head:

In the last 10 meetings, the Bulldogs have won 9. The game that the Bombers won was R21 in 2021 just a few weeks before they played again in an Elimination Final in Tasmania where the Bulldogs won by 8 goals.

They really do have the Bombers measure at the moment.

Last week:

Geelong led for all but five minutes of the game and looked like they could smash the Bulldogs, getting out to a 28-point late in the third quarter.  The Cats were coming off a 5-day break so were ripe to be run over, and the Bulldogs finished stronger than the Cats, kicking 5 of the last 6 goals but ultimately the Cats won by 4 points. In a mostly even list of stats, Geelong won the Inside 50s - 55-51, the Bulldogs won the Clearances 53-44.

Port were much too good for the Bombers, winning by 69 points. Most of the damage was done after QT, with Port kicking 13 goals to 3 in the last 3 quarters. Port won the Inside 50s 63-43 and the Clearances 39-30. The Bombers won the Tackle count easily, 65-48 and the Free Kicks 20-9. 

What we can expect this week:

After getting so badly beaten last week, the Bombers need to lock this one down. Not sure they can.

The Bulldogs will be happier back at Marvel and can improve their 2-2 record. The line opened up at -12.5 and the Bulldogs are bigger favourites now at -15.5.  They  should be able to cover the line with Bet Right just here.

Bulldogs -15.5

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