{"id":20971,"date":"2025-07-25T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20971\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:19:08","slug":"live-afl-2025-gws-giants-vs-sydney-swans-round-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20971\/","title":{"rendered":"Live AFL 2025, GWS Giants vs Sydney Swans, Round 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GWS aims to buck the recent Sydney Derby trend against the desperate Swans in a season-defining clash at ENGIE Stadium on Friday night. <\/p>\n<p>The Swans (9-9, 96.5%) need to win to keep their dire finals hopes alive; currently sitting eight points behind Gold Coast, who also have a game in hand. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Giants (12-6, 116%) aim to make it six wins in a row and keep their top-four hopes alive. <\/p>\n<p>FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every match of every round in the 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season LIVE in 4K, with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=afl&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Get your first month for just $1. Limited-time offer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But working against them is the fact that they\u2019ve lost five-straight games to their arch-rivals. GWS\u2019 most recent triumph over its cross-town foe came in Round 21, 2023. <\/p>\n<p>The first bounce will hit the ENGIE Stadium turf at 7:50pm local time in Sydney, with the substitutes and final teams for each side to be confirmed an hour beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it live on Fox Footy (channel 503), and streaming on Kayo, from 7:30pm AEST. <\/p>\n<p>Follow our coverage of GWS vs. Sydney in our live blog below! Can\u2019t see the blog?<a href=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/live\/fox-sports-australia\/AFL20252003?v=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GWS aims to buck the recent Sydney Derby trend against the desperate Swans in a season-defining clash at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-20971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971","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=20971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}