{"id":588657,"date":"2026-04-06T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:32:09","slug":"afl-round-four-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-in-melbourne-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/588657\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round four 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five lead changes in this quarter and Hawks v Geelong is living up to it\u2019s billing as an Easter Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Geelong fought back with the first three goals of the second quarter, before the Hawks kicked the next three.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mitch Lewis attempts a mark.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ae5ce61dc725989f539745243bb79aa6428e65fa.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Mitch Lewis attempts a mark.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The pressure is high and the quality players are coming to the fore with Nick Watson kicking a brilliant stoppage goal and Jack Ginnivan saving two goals with desperate efforts in &#8211; believe it or not &#8211; defence.<\/p>\n<p>The Cats kicked seven goals that quarter and managed to open up a nine-point lead with a long goal after the siren to Shannon Neale, who, along with Jack Bowes, kicked two for the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Hawks missed a couple of set shots and also completely blew a gilt-edged chance to goal when a mis-kick somehow saw the ball bounce in between four free Hawks inside 50.<\/p>\n<p>The second half is shaping up as a ripper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five lead changes in this quarter and Hawks v Geelong is living up to it\u2019s billing as an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-588657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588657","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=588657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}