Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\nEbony Marinoff was outstanding throughout and was pivotal late along with fellow Crows stars Eloise Jones, Danielle Ponter and Randall.
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Jones and Randall each booted two goals in the last-quarter assault, Caitlin Gould with a goal after the siren to seal Adelaide\u2019s first win of the season.
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It was a remarkable turnaround given Geelong\u2019s impressive first half.<\/p>\n
The Cats\u2019 pressure worried the Crows in a hot opening term, and it didn\u2019t take long for the visitors to take a deserved lead with a goal to Aishling Moloney who swooped on a rare Chelsea Biddell howler when she kicked back inside defensive 50 and missed her teammate.<\/p>\n
The switched-on visitors led the inside 50s 5-1, but Adelaide made the most of that one entry, Ponter snapping truly in traffic.
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But that would be the home side\u2019s only goal of the first half, Geelong extending a seven-point lead at quarter-time to 11 at the main break.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Led by Nina Morrison with a game-high 17 touches, five Cats had double-figure possessions at half-time to the Crows\u2019 one – Marinoff with 14 disposals.<\/p>\n
Geelong\u2019s midfield dominance kept Adelaide\u2019s defence under repeated pressure, Daniel Lowther\u2019s side leading the inside 50s 22-13 at half-time.
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The Crows suffered a blow before the opening bounce, with Sarah Allan a late withdrawal due to a quad injury, the co-captain replaced by Kayleigh Cronin.
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Magnificent Moloney
Aishling Moloney\u2019s second goal of a hot opening term was a stunning Goal of the Year contender. Last season\u2019s AFLW leading goalkicker received a slick handball from Kate Surman after a long ball was brought to ground 25m out from goal. Avoiding a despairing smother attempt from Sarah Goodwin, the Irishwoman, who was facing away from goal, threw the ball on her right boot and sent it tumbling over her head and through for a cracker.<\/p>\n
Randall\u2019s moment
In her first game of the season, Randall hadn\u2019t had her usual influence in the first half playing up forward . But the home fans got the moment they were after with just over three minutes left in the third quarter. The five-time All-Australian contested in the air against Rachel Kearns, then got goal side of the defender and it was off to the races. Randall set off for an open goalsquare, took a bounce, and slotted a team-lifting major that sliced the margin to two points at three-quarter time.<\/p>\n
Up next
Adelaide will take on Greater Western Sydney at Henson Park in Sydney next Saturday at 1.05pm AEST. Geelong also plays on Saturday, hosting Sydney at GMHBA Stadium at 3.05pm AEST.
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ADELAIDE \u00a0 1.1 \u00a0 1.4 \u00a0 3.5 \u00a0 10.5 (65)
GEELONG\u00a0 \u00a0 2.2 \u00a0 3.3 \u00a0 3.7 \u00a0 \u00a03.9 (27)
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GOALS
Adelaide: \u00a0Randall 3, Jones 2, Ponter 2, Gould 2, Kustermann
Geelong: Moloney 2, Parry
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BEST\u00a0
Adelaide: \u00a0Marinoff, Randall, Jones, N.Kelly, Newman, Ponter, J.Allan
Geelong: Prespakis, Webster, Morrison, Moloney, A.McDonald, Crockett-Grills
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INJURIES\u00a0
Adelaide: Nil
Geelong: Nil
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LATE CHANGES
Adelaide: Sarah Allan(ankle) replaced in selected side by Kayleigh Cronin
Geelong: Nil
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Reports: Nil
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Crowd: \u00a0TBC at Unley Oval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide trailed at the last change but stormed home with a seven-goal-to-nil quarter By Jason Phelan at Thomas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-91862","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","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91862","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=91862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}