Adelaide and Port Adelaide have met 40 times. The Power hold a narrow overall advantage, 21 – 19.

The Crows have won three of the past four matches between the two teams, including a 58-point victory at Adelaide Oval in Round Two this season.

On that day, Crows forward Tom Lynch kicked six goals from 21 possessions to claim the Showdown Medal as the best player on the ground. 

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Popular figure Eddie Betts, who played 184 games for Carlton before joining Adelaide, will celebrate his 250th AFL game on Saturday night. See more of Eddie’s career statistics

Betts loves the Showdown stage. Since becoming a Crow, the electrifying forward has kicked 19 goals in five matches against Port Adelaide, including a bag of five in Round Two this year.

Crows midfielder Scott Thompson is set to play his 25th Showdown this weekend. Only Adelaide champion Andrew McLeod and Power great Kane Cornes (both 27) have featured in more Showdowns.

Thompson has averaged 31.5 possessions, eight tackles and a goal in his past four Showdowns.

Crows captain Taylor Walker needs three more goals to equal Power premiership captain Warren Tredrea for most Showdown goals. Tredrea kicked 30 goals in 23 matches against Adelaide, while Walker has already bagged 27 in 10 Showdown appearances.

The Crows have only completed the Showdown ‘sweep’ three times: 2005, 2007 and 2012. Port Adelaide has won both Showdowns in the same season on five occasions: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2010 and 2013.

Five of the Power’s nine wins this season have been interstate. The Crows have lost only one game (to Geelong) at Adelaide Oval in 2016.

Adelaide’s biggest-ever winning margin in a Showdown was 83 points in the 2005 Semi Final. Port Adelaide’s biggest victory was 65 points in Round Three, 2001.

The Power hold the record for the highest-ever score in a Showdown, kicking 23.15 (153) in Round Three, 2001. Adelaide’s biggest Showdown score – 22.12 (144) – was set back in round 19, 1998.

Port Adelaide’s preferred option out of defence, Jasper Pittard is second in the AFL for long kicks (120), fourth in effective kicks (238), and seventh in total kicks (318). He’s also third in the League for rebound 50ms (111) and sixth in running bounces (36).

Pittard (174) and creative Crow Brodie Smith (168) are third and fourth in the competition for combined inside and rebound 50ms.

Big-bodied onballer Ollie Wines ranks ninth in the competition for contested possessions with 266 – three more than influential Crow Rory Sloane (263), who is 10th overall.

Wines is fourth in hard ball-gets (130) and ninth in clearances (118). Emerging Crows midfielder Matt Crouch (106) ranks 11th for hard ball-gets despite having missed two games.

Matt Crouch is averaging a disposals every 3.3 minutes – ranked seventh in the League behind Fremantle ball magnet Lachie Neale (3.0), Brisbane Lions captain Tom Rockliff (3.1), and stars Patrick Dangerfield, Zach Merrett, Dustin Martin and Adam Treloar (all 3.2).

The Power will be without their leading goalkicker this season, Chad Wingard, on Saturday night. Wingard sustained a hamstring injury in his team’s loss to Melbourne last weekend and has since undergone unrelated finger surgery.

The 11th-placed Power are the seventh-highest scoring team (1,872 points) in the League. The Crows rank No.1 in points for with 2,303 – 152 points more than the second-ranked Greater Western Sydney (2,151).

Adelaide averages 18.4 more uncontested marks than their direct opponents – ranked No.1. The Crows also average 28 more kicks.

Port Adelaide utility Jackson Trengove has won more clearances (91) than any other ruckman this season. He’s also won 298 possessions – second only to Collingwood’s Brodie Grundy among all ruckmen.

Power small defender-turned-forward Jarman Impey leads the League in rundown tackles (eight). Betts, who Impey has matched-up on in previous Showdown contests, is third with seven.

The Power play on from the mark 38.2 per cent of the time – second only to Melbourne.

Port Adelaide has a tackling differential of +8 – ranked second in the AFL.

Crows forward Josh Jenkins needs three more goals to draw level with former teammate Jason Porplyzia in equal-10th in the Club’s all-time goalkicking. Jenkins has kicked 178 goals in 89 games.

When the Power win; they win convincingly. The club has an average winning margin of 53 points – one point more than Adelaide (52).