AFL · Match ReportPublished · 2026-07-18
Match Report
Melbourne manufactured 27 scoring shots to 21 against North Melbourne — the chances, not the finish, settled it
How Melbourne earned it: 27 scoring shots to 21. The 92–76 was the fair end of it.
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North Melbourne 76, Melbourne 92 — the first scoreboard, the one you already have. Below is the second: the 50 funnel, how each side turned the ball going forward into a scoreboard — inside 50s, then marks inside 50, then scoring shots, then the goals that count. It is where this game was actually decided.
This one was won up the ground, not at the goalface. turned it into 27 scoring shots to 21 — chances at a rate North Melbourne could not match. The second scoreboard and the first agree here; what the second one adds is *where* the game was won, which is a long way before the last kick.
Evidence Actual Sport IntelligencePublished 2026-07-18
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