Melbourne continue to have a scoring problem.<\/p>\n
They have done enough to bury West Coast at Marvel Stadium, leading inside-50 entries 28 to 21, but only hold a 22-point lead at half-time.<\/p>\n
They did not score a goal from the 12-minute mark of the second quarter when they held a comfortable 34-point lead.<\/p>\n
The game was momentarily held up after an ugly head clash between Melbourne\u2019s Trent Rivers and West Coast\u2019s Liam Ryan during the second term.<\/p>\n
West Coast\u2019s medical team called for the umpires to hit the pause button because the dynamic forward was left on the ground holding his head. He was later able to jog from the field, but was taken to the rooms for a concussion test.<\/p>\n
Rivers also jogged from the ground, but returned soon after with a bandaged head.<\/p>\n
It was accidental contact. Rivers had disposed of a handball and stepped sideways straight into Ryan who was closing quickly to lay a tackle.<\/p>\n
Simon Goodwin would be far from satisfied. The Demons have done enough to set up a lead, but it could be more. And last week\u2019s last-quarter capitulation will be firmly in their minds.<\/p>\n
Christian Salem leads disposals with 21 until half-time, while Max Gawn has been a star, taking six marks and having 15 possessions, and Jack Viney has been solid. Kysaiah Pickett, Christian Petracca and Clayton Oliver have been relatively quiet.<\/p>\n
The Demons have had six individual goalscorer: Jacob van Rooyen, Rivers, Harrison Petty, Jake Melksham, Harvey Langford and Bayley Fritsch.<\/p>\n
For the Eagles, Ryan Maric has had 20 disposals. Their three goals have come from Ryan Maric, Archer Reid and Tyler Brockman.<\/p>\n
HT: Demons 6.7 (43) lead Eagles 3.3 (21)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne continue to have a scoring problem. They have done enough to bury West Coast at Marvel Stadium,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-39208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39208","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=39208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}