AFL LIVE: Hewitt, de Minaur in the crowd as Lions answer the Crows’ Gabba challenge

Zac Bailey loved that moment as he burned into the forward line and booted his second goal.

The Crows aren’t happy about something after the goal as they got in the face of the Lions.

Moments later, Bailey fed out a handball to Eric Hipwood, who snapped a goal.

Lions 62, Crows 34 with 10 mins to go in Q2.

Two Aussie tennis greats taking in the footy.

The Crows have a sizeable amount of fans at the Gabba and they are roaring all of a sudden.

Matthew Nicks mentioned pregame how important it was for teams to win the centre clearances due to how much smaller the Gabba is that many other grounds.

Fogarty has just booted his second goal after the Crows again won the ball from the middle.

The footy is suddenly red-hot again. But Charlie Cameron marked deep in the forward line and booted his third goal.

Izak Rankine is starting to fire and he’s just played a big role in finding Darcy Fogarty, who booted a running goal.

That’s a huge moment for the Crows. Now let’s see how the Lions handle it.

Lions 42, Crows 27 with 16 mins to go in Q2.

The Crows are patiently working back into this match.

They are starting to win more of the footy, and now Josh Rachele has found some room and booted his first goal of the night.

It feels like they are down by 50 points, but the margin is only 22.

Lions 43, Crows 21 with 17 mins to go in Q2.

What a statement out of the gates.

It took just 29 seconds for the Lions to kickstart their revival after last week’s freefall, as Kai Lohmann’s strike launched a flurry of five unanswered goals in less than eight minutes.

While things then tapered off slightly, with Adelaide getting back into the fight and finally getting on the board through Daniel Curtin and Luke Nankervis, this has been an emphatic Lions quarter.

But the hosts need to keep the pressure on. At one stage, they led the inside-50 count 10 to zero, only for it to finish at 18-11 at the break.

They can’t afford to get complacent after a week in which their defensive pressure was slammed – particularly after missed set shots from Eric Hipwood, Harris Andrews and Ryan Lester cost them the chance to send the Crows to the interval looking for a hole to dig in to.

Quarter-time: Lions lead 6.6 (42) to the Crows 2.3 (15)

The Lions were untouchable that term, kicking five goals in the first seven minutes, but the Crows have found more of the footy in the closing stages of opening quarter.

Riley Thilthorpe had a kick after the siren but it went across the face of goal. The Crows can’t afford to waste chances from here.

Luke Nankervis has taken flight after using Levi Ashcroft’s multimillion dollar spine as a launching pad.

After pulling in that mark, Nankervis kicked the goal.

The camera just showed Australian tennis great Lleyton Hewitt and current star Alex de Minaur in the crowd. Hewitt is a massive Crows fan, he won’t be happy.