Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin intends to proceed his experiment with utilizing explosive midfielder Christian Petracca as an answer to the Demons’ scoring woes.
Petracca spent most of his time in assault in opposition to St Kilda on Saturday night time and kicked 4 targets in a match-winning show.
The Demons posted their largest rating in nearly two months in registering a 12.7 (79) to eight.10 (58) victory at Marvel Stadium.
The tally got here regardless of main goalkicker Bayley Fritsch being sidelined with a foot harm and with livewire ahead Kysaiah Pickett blanketed by Jimmy Webster.
“We need to find a few more avenues to goal and Christian is a big part of that,” Goodwin mentioned.
“He had the four shots tonight and he took every one of them.”
Goodwin opted to make use of Petracca predominantly as a ahead regardless of fellow midfield star Clayton Oliver’s ongoing absence with a hamstring harm.
The Demons turned to the likes of James Jordon and Tom Sparrow within the center alongside Jack Viney and Angus Brayshaw.
“Supply and entry hasn’t been an issue for us and ability to win clearance in the last month hasn’t been our issue,” Goodwin mentioned.
“Our issue has been our ability to hit scoreboard … the last few weeks has been really challenging in that space.”
Goodwin was happy with the way in which Petracca linked with Jake Melksham (two targets) and Ben Brown (one) in assault in opposition to the Saints.
“It was just a bit more experience in the forward half of the ground to increase our ability to hit the scoreboard and build some efficiency,” Goodwin mentioned.
“Between the three of them, I thought they worked well together.
“It actually wasn’t good by any stretch of the creativeness, but it surely was a step ahead and Christian was an enormous a part of that.
“His demeanour and his attitude towards it, he’s embraced every element within it and we got the best of Christian tonight.”
Petracca’s 4 targets matched his career-best tally, which he had achieved twice in his 166 earlier video games.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
