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AFL · Match ReportPublished · 2026-07-17
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Adelaide Crows and Sydney Swans made the same game — 22 scoring shots to 21 — and Adelaide Crows won it at the goalface

How Adelaide Crows earned it: 22 scoring shots to 21. The 87–71 was the fair end of it.
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Sydney Swans 71, Adelaide Crows 87 — 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.

The second scoreboard — the 50 funnel, Sydney Swans v Adelaide Crows: inside 50s, marks inside 50, scoring shots and goals
The second scoreboard: level on chances, 22 to 21.

These two made the same amount of football — 22 scoring shots to 21, as level as the second scoreboard gets. The game turned at the one place the funnel narrows to a single act: the kick. Adelaide Crows finished 13.9, Sydney Swans 10.11 — not territory, not chances, the goalface.

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