Essendon Football Club vs Gold Coast Football Club Prediction: Back Essendon to Win

In the upcoming game of AFL, Essendon Football Club will be taking on Gold Coast Football Club in an exciting round game. With most of the AFL teams getting finalized for the upcoming quarterfinals in the months ahead, Essendon and Gold Coast will look to keep themselves revived in the contest. If we look at the points table, Essendon stands 16th with just 5 wins and 20 points in the competition, whereas Gold Coast is a much better position, 11th with 8 wins and 32 points. Gold Coasts will be eager to win and get themselves in the top 10 standings.

Going in the game, Essendon has shown improvement in their overall match form as they have won 3 out of their last 5 games. Essendon Football Club will be making a couple of changes as Mason Redman comes in the side, and Massimo D’ Ambrosio and Brayden Ham get excluded from the playing lineup. Essendon can build pressure on Gold Coast if they try to score maximum goals from the position of the marks. This season 54.8% of Essendon’s goals have been scored from marks this season. If we talk about Essendon’s game efficiency, the Bombers have a kicking efficiency of 70.2%, which is the best this season. Apart from all these in-game stats, Essendon are struggling real-time with the points scoring as they are averaging around 99.8 points per game since round 14. 

Gold Coast has done quite well except the game against Collingwood, which even went down to the wire and Gold Coast almost managed to pull of an upset. Going in the game, Gold Coast are playing Izak Rankine and Oleg Markov. Whereas Jeremy Sharp, Malcolm Rosas, and Rory Atkins will be missing out on the contest. Gold Coast's scoring accuracy of 26.3% from outside the 50-meter arc exploits their weakness in the game. However, now Gold Coast will be boosted in confidence after outscoring the Tigers six goals to one in the final last round. Moreover, they even outscored them by 18 points from intercept positions. 

Going in the game, Gold Coast Titans will be looking to score from kicks and mainly the attacking positions. The game total is expected to be over 160, and I will be backing Essendon to win and surprise Gold Coast Titans. 

• Essendon Football Club to Win for 1.9
• Total Over 172.5 for 1.9
• Handiсap Essendon (-3.5) for 2.03