\n We take the four points against Richmond.\n <\/p>\n
\n By AAP with Bede Briscomb\/AFL Media\n <\/p>\n
Adelaide survived a scare from Richmond to escape with a nine-point win and keep their top four hopes alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Crows came from 13 points down in the third quarter to triumph 9.9 (63) to 7.12 (54) at a rain-soaked Adelaide Oval on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Star Crow Izak Rankine was a standout with a career-high 37 disposals, one goal and a dozen clearances, and skipper Jordan Dawson was influential with 35 touches and a goal.<\/p>\n
Adelaide’s Callum Ah Chee booted two vital goals in the third quarter, Taylor Walker also kicked two majors, and midfielder Sam Berry (24 touches) was prominent.<\/p>\n
Richmond’s Seth Campbell bagged three goals, teammate Mykelti Lefau scored two, Jack Ross (28 touches) and Patrick Retschko (24) were busy, and midseason rookie draftee Kye Annand impressed with a match-high eight marks.<\/p>\n
The Tigers held a 2.2 to 1.3 lead at quarter-time, with Adelaide’s flat opening prompting coach Matthew Nicks to give his players a serve at the break.<\/p>\n
The Crows scored three goals to none in the initial 14 minutes of the second term to create a 12-point advantage but, as heavy rain fell to make an error-riddled contest even more challenging, the Tigers hit back.<\/p>\n
Steely Green and Campbell booted goals to shrink their deficit to one point at halftime, 4.5 to 4.4.<\/p>\n
Campbell’s influence magnified in the third term when he slotted two more goals to give the Tigers a 13-point break and alarm the 42,762-strong pro-Adelaide crowd.<\/p>\n
Richmond’s advantage should have been greater, but stalwart Tom Lynch missed three gettable goal chances before Adelaide responded with two moments of magic.<\/p>\n
First, prized recruit Callum Ah Chee kicked a sensational goal on the run from 55 metres in the driving rain.\u00a0And 10 minutes later, the dynamic Rankine scored a classy goal from 50m out, also on the run.<\/p>\n
Rankine’s stunner was followed by another Ah Chee major as Adelaide reclaimed the lead – four points ahead at three-quarter-time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adelaide veteran Taylor Walker extended the home side’s lead to 10 points before the Tigers rallied again.<\/p>\n
A Hugo Ralpsmith goal was followed by Sam Lalor missing a close-range set shot that would have put the visitors in front.<\/p>\n
Instead, they were four points down and Adelaide’s Zac Taylor sealed victory with a 50m set shot with under four minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
SCOREBOARD<\/p>\n
ADELAIDE\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01.3\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04.5\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a07.7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09.9\u00a0 \u00a0 (63)
RICHMOND\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02.2\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a04.4\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a06.9\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a07.12\u00a0 (54)<\/p>\n
GOALS
Adelaide:\u00a0Walker 2, Ah Chee 2, Taylor, Rankine, Dawson, Cumming, Cook
Richmond:\u00a0Campbell 3, Lefau 2, Ralphsmith, Green<\/p>\n
BEST
Adelaide:\u00a0Rankine, Dawson, Walker, O’Brien, Ah Chee
Richmond:\u00a0Campbell, Vlastuin, Nankervis, Lefau, Miller\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We take the four points against Richmond. By AAP with Bede Briscomb\/AFL Media Adelaide survived a scare from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":848154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-848153","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\/848153","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=848153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}