{"id":38832,"date":"2025-08-02T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38832\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T01:24:08","slug":"live-afl-2025-melbourne-demons-v-west-coast-eagles-round-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/38832\/","title":{"rendered":"Live AFL 2025, Melbourne Demons v West Coast Eagles, Round 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne is desperately seeking a return to the winners\u2019 list after last Sunday\u2019s horror collapse as it hosts West Coast at Marvel Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>The Demons (6-13, 90%) surrendered a 46-point three-quarter-time lead to lose to St Kilda in an all-time meltdown and are looking to respond in a big way. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the travelling Eagles (1-18, 63.5%) are still searching for their second win of the year and will go into Saturday\u2019s clash thinking they\u2019re every chance. <\/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>Dees coach Simon Goodwin, who continues to face pressure for his job and simply needs to conduct his side to four points, made just two changes for the fixture, recalling Harry Sharp and awarding Jai Culley a club debut against his former team. <\/p>\n<p>The Eagles made four changes, with youngsters Campbell Chesser and Tom Gross among the inclusions\ufeff, with the injured Harley Reid the key out. <\/p>\n<p>The first bounce will hit the Marvel Stadium turf at 1:20pm AEST in Melbourne, 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 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 12:30pm AEST.<\/p>\n<p>Follow our live coverage of Melbourne vs. West Coast in our blog below! Can\u2019t see the blog? <a anchorselected=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/live\/fox-sports-australia\/AFL20252103?v=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne is desperately seeking a return to the winners\u2019 list after last Sunday\u2019s horror collapse as it hosts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,684,34710,34709,7802,2105,34711,19972,12181,681,17282,647,7804,677,3473,46,8014,85,1122,34708,660,7067,3439,698],"class_list":["post-38832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-campbell-chesser","tag-club-debut","tag-final-teams","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-harry-sharp","tag-injury-update","tag-jesse-hogan","tag-jon-ralph","tag-live-coverage","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-oceania","tag-paul-kane","tag-perth","tag-simon-goodwin","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-three-quarter-time-lead","tag-victoria","tag-west-coast-eagles","tag-western-australia","tag-western-bulldogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832","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=38832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}