Fremantle pulled off the upset of the round on Sunday night, defeating Collingwood by 12 points on Sunday night.
After going scoreless in the first quarter, Fremantle kicked 10 goals to Collingwood’s six and looked the stronger team across the game.
Former Melbourne captain Garry Lyon praised coach Justin Longmuir for exposing a flaw in the Magpies’ recent performances.
“Apart from (the off-field problems), they’ve got issues. They’re 10th on the ladder Collingwood and Fremantle unravelled them,” he told SEN Breakfast.
“I thought Justin Longmuir coached absolutely magnificently. We’ve been telling you for a month that (Collingwood) does all their scoring in the first 20 minutes and from that point on they were 16th or 17th for scores beyond that first 20 minutes.
“Longmuir said, ‘right, you’re not scoring on our watch and they went in at quarter time and Fremantle hadn’t scored, but the simple fact was Collingwood had scored one goal.
“This is a game I would have loved to have been at live to see how they did it, but it appeared they pushed all their numbers back early, didn’t want to get scored against, protected their back-half.
“Then, given what West Coast did against Collingwood the week before, launched from the back-half and started to build their game from the back-half.
“Then their magnificent midfield – Caleb Serong, Adam Cerra, Andrew Brayshaw, kids, complimented by Nathan Fyfe and David Mundy, just got to work.
“And their hardness. Let’s just take everything else back. Their hardness from start to finish was just first-rate, Freo. It was a fantastic win.”
Collingwood takes on the 17th placed Sydney this Thursday night, but Lyon believes nothing is certain with the Magpies at the moment.
“(After the West Coast game) people were saying, Collingwood will bounce back because they play the bottom four teams in the competition over the next four weeks,” he said.
“Well they played one of those bottom four teams and they lost so they’ve got issues, we know their personnel issues and they’ve got some travel, so their issues are right in front of them.”