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Port Adelaide star Chad Wingard’s AFL season may be over after injuring his hamstring in the Power’s 40-point loss to Melbourne.
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It was a big win to the Melbourne Demons over the Port Adelaide Power on Saturday night. 40 points was the final margin, Port Adelaide 8.6.54 going down to Melbourne 13.16.94.
The Melbourne Demons break a 7-game losing streak to the Power with a dominant display away from Victoria.
The Port Adeliade Power were on the back foot from the beginning of the game and never really looked a threat to the Demons.
Chad Wingard left the game early with a hamstring injury and with one less player on the bench that would hurt the Power later on.
Poor kicking from Port Adelaide was the story of the night often unable to find a target and when they did it was not delivered with the accuracy needed.
Melbourne carried their stunning form from last week into the game and led at the first change by 19 points.
The second quarter was much the same poor kicking from Port while Melbourne took their chances. Some unique umpiring decisions throughout the game made it hard for Port Adelaide but they still took a lead in that category into the halftime break. Melbourne more than doubled their lead at the half.
Port Adelaide came storming out of the blocks in the third quarter and dominated for most of the term, again poor decision-making from them and bad kicking was costly but they did get the deficit back to 21 at one point.
The term was ended with a scuffle from Max Gawn and Matthew Lobbe, one of many for the game and it looked to blow up. The Demons took a 22-point lead into the break but Port Adelaide seemed to have the momentum at that point.
The final quarter was all Melbourne with Port only kicking one goal and one behind for the term while Melbourne kicked away with four goals, seven behinds.
Melbourne look to be a team on the rise and although they will likely miss out on the eight this year they will have to be in consideration for the finals next season.
For Port Adelaide again it will be a question of what went wrong they struggled throughout the game with simple skill errors and poor kicking.
Even with Chad Wingard missing for the majority of the game you have to wonder whether he would have truly made a big difference.
Next up for Melbourne is a winnable game against the Carlton Blues while Port Adelaide will face their interstate rivals Adelaide Crows.
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