{"id":569075,"date":"2026-03-28T02:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/569075\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:23:10","slug":"afl-round-three-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-marvel-stadium-in-melbourne-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/569075\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round three 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Marvel Stadium in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Draper of the Lions in action.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7a35e4c257a20e19a1f4fb16c6a09c9db31362cd.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bRhmzR\"\/>Sam Draper of the Lions in action.AFL Photos via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Former Essendon ruckman Sam Draper has looked solid for the Lions so far, he flew high for a mark but couldn\u2019t hang onto it.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end, Liam Ryan looked to kick to Jack Higgins but his kick sailed over his head and rolled into the goals.<\/p>\n<p>Expert work from the veteran forward.<\/p>\n<p>Saints 12, Lions 5 with three mins to go in Q1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Draper of the Lions in action.AFL Photos via Getty Images Former Essendon ruckman Sam Draper has looked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-569075","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\/569075","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=569075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}