AFL · Match ReportPublished · 2026-07-18
Match Report
Fremantle manufactured 28 scoring shots to 20 against Port Adelaide — the chances, not the finish, settled it
How Fremantle earned it: 28 scoring shots to 20. The 103–75 was the fair end of it.
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Port Adelaide 75, Fremantle 103 — the first scoreboard, the one you already have. Below is the second: the 50 funnel, how each side turned the ball going forward into a scoreboard — inside 50s, then marks inside 50, then scoring shots, then the goals that count. It is where this game was actually decided.
This one was won up the ground, not at the goalface. turned it into 28 scoring shots to 20 — chances at a rate Port Adelaide could not match. The second scoreboard and the first agree here; what the second one adds is *where* the game was won, which is a long way before the last kick.
Evidence Actual Sport IntelligencePublished 2026-07-18
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