AFL Finals 2025 Recap: Minor premiers Adelaide take on Collingwood for a shot at the preliminary final
Finals footy is here as minor premiers Adelaide take on Collingwood to kick off September action.
Can the Crows defend their home in their finals since 2017, having dominated the home and away season?
They won an arm wrestle in the penultimate round of the home and away season over the Pies, despite Collingwood dominating the stats sheet.
The Pies have brought back Mason Cox while a sore-looking Nick Daicos was cleared fit to play, and they will need to lean on their September experience at a hostile Adelaide Oval.
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Cameron with the dagger
Crows forced to defend but a 50 to Thilthorpe relieves the pressure.
But Adelaide plays on needlessly and Quaynor again launches the Pies as Cameron gets out the back.
He’s got three Crows after him but he doesn;t take possession and kicks it out of mid air to stab through a goal.
Momentum has swung firmly with the Pies.
COL 5.6 (36) ADE 5.1 (31)
Sidebottom the man
He had the sighter just moments ago that fell just short but as Quaynor launches the Pies off another intercept he gets another look from insdie 50 this time and slides it through.
ADE 5.1 (31) COL 4.4 (28)
Thilthorpe makes it three in a row
Mason Cox gives away a free in the middle and then gives away 50 for not giving the ball back in time.
Crows are out to a game-high 10-point lead and now the Pies need a steadier.
Pedlar gets the Crows in front
Luke Pedlar with a nerveless effort after Dan Curtin and Alex Neal-Bullen work it out on the wing with Neal-Bullen with an absolute dart kick to find Pedlar uncontested.
The Crows are coming.
Walker, the man again
A rush kick allows Walker to get sepeartion on Frampton and take just his second amrk insdie 50.
The kick looks suspect off the boot but works back to split the middle to get the Crows back to within two points.
Big goal fromt the Texan.
Crows are pouring on the pressure
Their delivery inside 50 has really let them down but the ball is living in their forward half ever since Elliot’s goal.
They’ve had the last seven inside 50s for no score including a horror set shot form Reilly O’Brien.
They have to make their pressure count
Elliott has his second
He hobbled to the bench with a knee complaint in the first quarter but he had no troubles booting his second from just inside 50.
It was off the back of a clearance win as the Pies get the early strike again.
COL 3.3 (21) ADE 2.1 (13)
End of Q1 Collingwood 2.3 (15) Adelaide 2.1 (13)
A hot start, as expected, with plenty of tackles not much free-flowing footy.
Darcy Cameron has been huge in defence with Collingwood taking 12 intercept marks to Adelaide’s two.
Nick Daicos was everywhere with eight touches and a goal to go with two clearances.
Riley Thilthorpe worked into the quarter but the Crows forward line haven’t quite got in sync yet.
It’s fairly even stats wise though the Pies were starting to rack up uncontested possessions as the game opened up.
Still along way to go in this one.
Mihocek with a horror miss
Free-flowing footy is at a premium with the Crows flooding numbers to defend.
But the Pies find some space on the outside and Mihocek wins a free close to goal.
But he almost misses his boot as it scrapes through for a point.
Clear cut chances are at a premium at the moment so you want to be taking them.
Moore has a moment to forget
Kicking from half-back, he takes to long and is smothered.
His opposing captain, Jordan Dawson swoops on the loose ball and off a step dribbles it through from 45m out.
Crows in front.
