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Swans survive in 'one of the best games' ever - CtrlF.XYZ

Swans survive in 'one of the best games' ever

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Sydney has resisted a final-quarter blitz from Collingwood to advancement to adjacent week's AFL expansive last by the slimmest of margins.

The Swans looked successful power for the bulk of the match, but done a four-goal-to-one last word successful the Magpies' favour, Craig McRae's men again recovered a mode to unit a nail-biter.

In a hectic last 5 minutes, Collingwood got wrong 1 footwear of completing the comeback but ran retired of clip arsenic Sydney clinched the preliminary last 14.11 (95) to 14.10 (94) astatine the SCG.

"And the Pies' Cinderella communicative yet grinds to a halt," said Channel 7 commentator Hamish McLachlan.

"It conscionable doesn't travel overmuch amended than that. One of the champion games of shot you volition ever see."

It was the Swans who drew archetypal humor erstwhile midfielder Luke Parker played connected from the 50-metre earlier streaming toward extremity and scoring connected the run.

That was followed by the Magpies' archetypal determination wrong guardant 50, with youngster Jack Ginnivan attracting a escaped footwear for a precocious tackle.

Despite moving astir to straighten the angle, Ginnivan pushed the footwear crossed the face, allowing the shot to beryllium punched retired by the Swans.

In winning the throw-in and transitioning the shot down the different end, Dylan Stephens made the Magpies pay, finishing disconnected a slick end-to-end play.

Ensuing goals to Ryan Clarke and Tom Papley soon saw Sydney contention retired to a four-goal lead.

Will Hoskin-Elliott yet got the Magpies connected the committee with six minutes near successful the opening term, earlier Jamie Elliot rapidly made it back-to-back majors.

"A occurrence astatine the SCG"

However, the Swans had an reply for everything.

Chad Warner kicked a sensational extremity from a wicked space precocious successful the archetypal quarter.

"A occurrence astatine the SCG," McLachlan said.

Lance Franklin had a accidental to springiness the Swans different extremity successful the shadows of quarter-time, but helium pushed it wide for a behind, giving the Swans a 21-point pb astatine the archetypal break.

The Magpies won the archetypal centre clearance of the 2nd word and moved the shot swiftly to Elliott who scored, taking nary much than 30 seconds.

Papley scores arguable goal

But the Swans responded, moving the shot down the different extremity and uncovering Franklin with a booming footwear to the apical of the extremity square.

This kicked disconnected a seesawing matter arsenic Franklin soon converted his 2nd earlier Collingwood's Beau McCreery deed back.

The Swans took a five-goal pb astatine the main interruption arsenic cardinal guardant Sam Reid was substituted retired of the match, incapable to flooded an adductor complaint.

Collingwood pitchy fuels Pies' anticipation late

Nick Daicos scored from a 50-metre punishment aft the umpire penalised the Swans for delaying the play.

Medical substitute Nathan Kreuger past entered the lucifer for the Magpies arsenic Mason Cox was ruled retired with an adductor injury.

The Swans took a 23-point pb into the last 4th but Collingwood won its archetypal 4th of the night.

The visitors closed to wrong 1 constituent of the Swans and had 1 last foray wrong 50 successful the dying seconds, but a flooding Sydney defence suffocated immoderate accidental of Collingwood seizing a game-winning moment

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