{"id":554229,"date":"2026-03-21T04:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554229\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T04:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:39:10","slug":"afl-round-two-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554229\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round two 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear, the Tigers have been ripped open here in the shadows of half-time, the Suns ending the term on a six-goal tear to take a 31-point lead into the main break. The sixth came from Ethan Read, who enjoyed a strong second term. After a sloppy first term, the Suns have shown why they are a top-four, if not, premiership contender. The Tigers have not been the same since Tom Lynch (hamstring) had an early finish to his day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Out of my way: Suns star Christian Petracca.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cc841a38b437df2fc5c315c9254f209688af1421.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bNAuyX\"\/>Out of my way: Suns star Christian Petracca.AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>This could get ugly if the Tigers cannot rebound in the third term.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns, with only two home-and-away games at the MCG this year, will be keen to make a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oh dear, the Tigers have been ripped open here in the shadows of half-time, the Suns ending the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-554229","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\/554229","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=554229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}