The Port Adelaide Power and West Coast Eagles both have their eyes on a semi-final berth next week, but only one of them can win on Saturday night.
The winner of this match will go on to face the GWS Giants in a semi-final next week, and given the Giants’ poor performance on Thursday, will give themselves half a chance at victory.
If they can make it through that, they’d then find themselves in a preliminary final up against the winner of Friday’s match between the Geelong Cats and Richmond Tigers.
There’s certainly a lot on offer – however, for the loser of this match, it will spell the end of their season, and something of a disappointment.
Both teams go into this one looking to prove wrong the public perception of them as “flat track bullies”, sides only capable of performing well against the AFL’s worst.
They have each had one win over each other this year and then between the combined have only three more wins against top eight teams – Port Adelaide having beaten Sydney, and West Coast having beaten Geelong and Adelaide (and both at home).
Port only narrowly missed out on a top four berth and after considering themselves in the running for the double chance all year long, to bow out in the first week would be a major flop.
West Coast on the other hand have had only a middling season when they could’ve been contenders, and need a win to give fans hope that this era is not over yet.
Port have made only one change this week, dropping Aidyn Johnson and recalling Jarman Impey.
West Coast haven’t made any changes to the side that defeated Adelaide in Perth a fortnight ago.
The last six matches between these sides are an even split, three wins apeice, and ironically, the last five have all been won by the team travelling interstate.
Don’t expect that to be a factor here though. Port are the better team and should win comfortably, in fact, $3.60 for them to win by 40+ is tempting value.
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