Saturday second AFL Finals Week 2 match is between Sydney Swans and Carlton Blues with the game to be played at ANZ Stadium. The opening bounce is set to commence at 7:45pm local time with home team Sydney Swans currently holding favouritism. View our AFL live scores, odds and results for the game between Sydney Swans and Carlton Blues.

WHERE AND WHEN: ANZ Stadium, 7:45pm AEST, Saturday 14 September

Opening odds comparison:

Sydney Swans	1.36	1.30	1.35	1.30	1.36	1.33
Carlton Blues	3.15	3.50	3.20	3.50	3.15	3.20

Preview:

The second game this week is between the Sydney Swans and Carlton, kicking off on Saturday, 7.45pm at ANZ Stadium. Carlton surprised a lot of people last week,
especially after only making the finals due to Essendon’s woes. By beating the Tigers by 20 points at the MCG, the Blues showed everyone they belong in the
2013 finals. Hope and momentum might not be enough to get them through this match, however, with the Swans playing well this year to finish 4th on the ladder. Even
though they lost last week to the Hawks, Sydney played well in the first half and still showed plenty of signs of life.

Similar to the other game this weekend, the Blues will need to defy the odds to get through to week 3, with only one team in the bottom half of the eight managing this feat in a decade. Statistics are just that, however, and the Carlton fans will certainly be paying them little attention when they put on their colours on Saturday. Interestingly, the Swans will not be at their true home ground for this match, with the SCG undergoing renovations and the game moved to ANZ Stadium.

While the Swans have lost both of their home games at ANZ this year, the last time these two teams met at this venue was back in the 2010 finals, when the Swans went
home with a exciting 5-point win. Sydney will be expected to win this game, and their quest for back-to-back premiership flags should go on another week. Chris Judd and the Blues might have a few things to say about that, however, and if last week is anything to go by, an upset if certainly a possibility.

Teams:

Sydney Swans:
B: Dane Rampe, Ted Richards, Nick Malceski
HB: Andrejs Everitt, Heath Grundy, Nick Smith
C: Tom Mitchell, Kieren Jack, Jarrad McVeigh
HF: Daniel Hannebery, Kurt Tippett, Craig Bird
F: Jude Bolton, Mike Pyke, Jesse White
FOLL: Shane Mumford, Josh Kennedy, Ryan O’Keefe
I/C: Shane Biggs, Luke Parker, Lewis Jetta, Harry Cunningham
EMG: Jed Lamb, Brandon Jack, Dean Towers
IN: Shane Biggs, Harry Cunningham
OUT: Ben McGlynn (Calf), Gary Rohan (Omitted)

Carlton Blues:
B: Heath Scotland, Michael Jamison, Lachie Henderson
HB: Zach Tuohy, Jarrad Waite, Bryce Gibbs
C: Chris Yarran, Mitch Robinson, Kade Simpson
HF: Ed Curnow, Andrew Walker, Andrew McInnes
F: Jeff Garlett, Matthew Kreuzer, Chris Judd
FOLL: Robert Warnock, Eddie Betts, Marc Murphy
I/C: Nick Duigan, Troy Menzel, Tom Bell, Dennis Armfield
EMG: David Ellard, Brock McLean, Levi Casboult
No changes   

Swans weren’t up to finals class: McVeigh

Sydney co-captain Jarrad McVeigh believes Hawthorn forward Luke Breust was right to say the lopsided second half of last week’s AFL grand-final rematch was unbefitting of a final.

The Swans were level at halftime of last Friday night’s MCG qualifying final, but fell away horribly and suffered a 54-point defeat.

Breust remarked this week that it “didn’t really feel like a final”.

“We had so many uncontested marks,” he said.

“You normally expect finals footy to be pretty congested and a lot of contested footy.”

Rather than take it as a slight on the reigning premiers, McVeigh conceded Breust was on the money and that the poor performance had left everyone at the SCG embarrassed.

“I think a few of the comments were ‘it was an unfinals-like game’ and … that really gets at us and they are probably right in saying that,” McVeigh said.

“They had a lot of uncontested ball and that’s something that we haven’t been known for.

“We’re filthy about the way we played … we were embarrassed.

“We were really embarrassed with our performance and a few of the comments coming out of Hawthorn, you know they probably felt the same way as we thought.”

When asked about Breust’s comments on Thursday, Swans coach John Longmire admitted “there wasn’t the pressure that we usually apply”.

McVeigh was confident the Swans would bounce back on Saturday night in the sudden-death clash with Carlton at ANZ Stadium

“One thing I know about this team is they don’t give up and they’ll always come back when the big games are on,” he told radio station SEN.

The 28-year-old said he’d be right to take on the Blues, despite suffering a knee injury against the Hawks.

“I was probably fortunate that it wasn’t as bad as we thought in the beginning.”