{"id":145556,"date":"2025-09-15T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145556\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:27:12","slug":"afl-finals-week-two-2025-team-news-selection-whispers-injuries-news-predictions-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/145556\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL finals week two, 2025 – Team news, selection, whispers, injuries, news, predictions, scores"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second week of AFL<\/a> finals gets underway on Friday night with a massive clash between Adelaide and Hawthorn. Then, it’s arch rivals Brisbane and Gold Coast on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Keep up to date with all of the fixtures, games, team news, tips, odds, results, reaction, and video as they come to hand.<\/p>\n

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12<\/p>\n


\nAdelaide vs. Hawthorn<\/p>\n

Adelaide Oval, 7:40pm [AEST]<\/p>\n

Team news: Josh Rachele comes in for Hugh Bond for the Crows, and Mitch Lewis comes in for a hamstrung Calsher Dear.<\/p>\n

Key Stat: Adelaide is trying to avoid becoming the first minor premier since North Melbourne in 1983 to be eliminated after losing two straight finals. They are also hoping to avoid being the first No.1 placed team to lose a final to the eighth ranked team.<\/p>\n

ESPN tip: Crows by 3 points<\/p>\n

Pointsbet<\/a> odds: Crows $1.77, Hawks $2.05<\/p>\n

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Brisbane vs. Gold Coast<\/p>\n

Gabba, 7:35pm [AEST]<\/p>\n

Team news: The Suns go into this clash unchanged, while the Lions have made two changes; Bruce Reville, and Oscar McInerney come in for Sam Day (omitted) and Lachie Neale (calf).<\/p>\n

Key stat: Since 2020, Gold Coast has lost the contested possession count by 11.5 per game against the Lions – the second worst differential against them in that time. The Suns lost five of the six games in which they lost the contested possession count by at least 10 this season.<\/p>\n

ESPN tip: Lions by 10 points<\/p>\n

Pointsbet<\/a> odds: Lions $1.56, Suns $2.45<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second week of AFL finals gets underway on Friday night with a massive clash between Adelaide and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-145556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}