{"id":120237,"date":"2025-09-05T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120237\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:15:07","slug":"afl-finals-live-geelong-v-brisbane-lions-do-battle-in-blockbuster-qualifying-final-at-the-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120237\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL finals live: Geelong v Brisbane Lions do battle in blockbuster qualifying final at the MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\"><a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/geelong-cats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Geelong<\/a> finished second on the ladder to have hosting rights but the MCG has no fears for third-placed <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/sport\/brisbane-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brisbane<\/a> who have already beaten the Cats twice this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Brisbane\u2019s last outing at the MCG was also a handy effort, beating Collingwood by 27 points in Round 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The Lions have featured in the past two grand finals and out to make it three in row and secure back-to-back flags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">For Geelong and their master coach Chris Scott, they are out to grab a third flag since he took the reins way back in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Both team will live to fight another day if they lose this one, but a win gives them a week of and catapults them straight into a preliminary final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Don\u2019t go anywhere &#8230; this one should go down to the wire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong finished second on the ladder to have hosting rights but the MCG has no fears for third-placed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,3237,13659,588,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-120237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-brisbane-lions","14":"tag-geelong-cats","15":"tag-sport","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}