AFL 2024 round five LIVE updates: Melbourne Demons, Brisbane Lions test finals claims in MCG showdown

Neither side has made a late change while Taj Woewodin and James Tunstill have been named as the subs.The Lions have the most to lose in this tantalising clash. Fall short here, and last year’s grand finalist slip to 1-4 and can almost kiss their top four hopes goodbye. The Demons, on the other hand, have been flying high. After dropping their season opener to Sydney at the SCG, Melbourne have won four straight, including stirring back-to-back victories in Adelaide.

The Demons have a slight edge. In their past five matches, post the Covid years, the Demons hold a 3-2 advantage, including a 2-1 ledger at the MCG. But, tellingly, they dropped their 2022 semi-final at home against the Lions . Last year, the Lions lost all three matches at the MCG, but this is slightly misleading - they lost by a point against the Demons in Round 18, and then dropped the Grand Final by four points against Collingwood.

“It won’t just be about our forwards versus their backs, it will be about the way we move the ball and the pressure we apply,” Chris Fagan.The Age tipsters are 13-1 in favour of a Demons victory. Kane Cornes is the only expert predicting a Brisbane win.Brisbane Lions will be going from playing on one of the narrowest grounds in the AFL, to the widest when they run out onto the MCG on Thursday night.

But Lions coach Chris Fagan said his side would use the same attacking principles they used in their win over North Melbourne at Norwood Oval during Gather Round.“The principles don’t change in terms of the way you want to defend and way you want to attack, you just adapt that to the bigger ground,” Fagan said on Wednesday.

“But if we run as hard as we did last week and work as hard as we did to create space, then we should find that easier on the MCG than what we did last week.Hello everyone and welcome to tonight’s AFL live blog as Melbourne Demons and Brisbane Lions square off at the MCG to open round five.

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