Sydney have continued their red-hot cost in direction of the AFL finals, beating cross-city rivals GWS by 27 factors to make it 10 wins on the bounce.
The league leaders made essentially the most of injured defender Sam Taylor’s absence, at one stage piling on 10 unanswered objectives on their approach to a 16.12 (102) to 11.9 (75) victory at Engie Stadium.
GWS have now misplaced three of their previous 5 video games, whereas Sydney are sitting three video games clear on high of the ladder.
Rubbing additional salt into the wound, All-Australian backman Taylor will likely be out for an indefinite period of time after rupturing his testicle in opposition to Port Adelaide.
Giants coach Adam Kingsley, who recovered from COVID simply in time for Saturday’s match, aimed to disrupt the Swans from the supply and tasked Toby Bedford with nullifying Chad Warner.
The shut consideration mattered little for midfield bull Warner, who nonetheless managed two objectives and 20 touches.
Errol Gulden led the statistics with a game-high haul of 41 disposals to win best-on-ground honours, whereas James Rowbottom introduced the warmth with 19 contested possessions.
Tom Inexperienced was the shining mild for a disjointed Giants facet lacking Stephen Coniglio, whereas defender Lachie Whitfield acquired the higher hand on Swans ahead James Jordon of their rematch.
Defender Leek Aleer additionally went to work on Joel Amartey, limiting the goalkicker to 0.1 after he kicked 9 final week in opposition to Adelaide.
Sydney’s Hayden McLean slotted the primary objective of the sport on the 20-minute mark because the Swans took a three-point lead into the quarter-time break.
The Giants snuck forward courtesy of a Jesse Hogan objective, however their hopes of extending the lead have been shortly snuffed out, with the guests piling on 7.3 to 1.2 earlier than the primary break.
Debutant Max Gruzewski kicked two objectives in a five-goal stretch throughout the second half to assist convey GWS again into the competition, however an unrelenting Swans unit refused to surrender their lead.
