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Geelong v Port Adelaide 2021 Qualifying Final

Author: DRN1 Sport

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A brilliant game of footy at the Adelaide oval on Friday night as Geelong took on Port Adelaide at Home in the first finals game of the weekend.

Port Adelaide took out Geelong 12-14-86 to 5-13-43 in a game that was dominated by Port from the first bounce. The tackle pressure throughout the game by Port was elite and Geelong didn’t stand a chance against a full strength Port Adelaide.

Geelong fans would’ve expected better from their team but looked very amature throughout the game. 

Chris Scott said in his press conference after the game: “It was a poor performance, virtually everything that could go wrong did go wrong over the course of the night”.

“A strong part of our game over the years and when we’re playing our best, even now it should be a strong part of our game, is we just don’t hand the opposition easy goals”. 

“There were two parts to that, we made some uncharacteristic decisions to give them really easy looks which always hurts you. And it was uncharacteristic for us how easily Port were able to get the ball from our Forward 50”.

On the Port Adelaide side, Gun Forward Fantasia has a nagging knee injury but Ken Hinkley says he will be fine to play out the finals with a couple of weeks rest before the next game.

Hinkley went on to say: “It’s big in the overall goal because we get the perfect preparation for what we would like. We haven’t had the pre-final bye, so this is a bye I feel like is a bonus and benefit to us, clearly”.

Port Adelaide are now looking like the favorites for the flag in three weeks time with their game style. If they keep up their running game and tackle pressure like they brought to last nights game it’s going to be a massive effort from any team to beat.

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