Adelaide V Hawthorn: Afl 2025 First Semi-final – Live

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Final teams

Teams are successful pinch nary further changes.

Adelaide sanction Josh Rachele as sub, while Changkuoth Jiath is Hawthorn’s 23rd player.

The Crows only spell halfway with Rachele’s callback for nan livewire’s first crippled since he injured a knee successful information 17. But his belated preamble should adhd a spark to a guardant statement that underwhelmed successful nan qualifying last against nan Pies and continues to miss Izak Rankine again tonight.

The Hawks instrumentality to their three-pronged gangly guardant group up pinch Mitch Lewis backmost to switch nan injured Calsher Dear. Lewis was omitted from nan Hawks lineup for their triumph complete nan Giants, but responded pinch 4 goals and an all-round promising capacity successful a VFL final.

Preamble

Hello and invited to unrecorded sum of nan AFL semi-final betwixt Adelaide and Hawthorn at Adelaide Oval. The victor of this conflict will meet Geelong successful a preliminary last astatine nan MCG adjacent Friday night. No mini task. But you gotta beryllium successful it, to triumph it.

Adelaide request to bounce backmost from a disappointing return to finals aft an eight-year absence but arsenic insignificant premiers person nan luxury of taking their 2nd changeable backmost connected their location deck. The unit has quickly mounted connected nan Crows arsenic they activity to debar a straight-sets finals exit arsenic good arsenic a mates of unwanted slices of history. They will not want to go nan first squad successful nan AFL-era to decorativeness connected apical of nan ladder past beryllium bundled retired successful 2 finals, aliases to beryllium nan first insignificant premiers to suffer to an eighth-place broadside successful a final.

Hawthorn would beryllium undermined by excessively overmuch attraction connected their eighth-place finish, particularly arsenic they were playing disconnected for a top-four spot successful nan past information of nan location and distant season. They past showed really constrictive nan margins are betwixt nan apical sides this year, erstwhile they were excessively bully for GWS Giants past week. The Hawks person nan use of being to this aforesaid shape earlier arsenic they played a semi-final astatine Adelaide Oval past year. That was against nan Power, alternatively than nan Crows, and ended successful chaos arsenic a James Sicily changeable astatine extremity astatine nan decease collapsed into nan station and sparked chaotic scenes aft nan siren that temporarily overshadowed nan gut-wrenching defeat. But it should springiness nan Hawks a hint of information that it is simply a script they will not want to repeat.

First bounce will beryllium astatine 7.10pm section clip successful Adelaide / 7.40pm AEST. I’ll driblet successful nan squad news shortly. Meanwhile, fto america cognize your thoughts and predictions – shoot maine an email aliases find maine @martinpegan connected Bluesky aliases X. Let’s get into it!