{"id":629456,"date":"2026-04-25T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629456\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:33:10","slug":"afl-round-seven-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-in-melbourne-anzac-day-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629456\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round seven 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG in Melbourne, Anzac Day game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon fans came to the MCG thinking they were a real hope of causing upset. Their confidence should not be shaken at quarter time, despite the nine-point deficit. The Bombers have brought effort and dare. More importantly, they do not look like the disorganised side that graced the field in the first month of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Their best players are in the game: Archie Roberts has 12 disposals, Zach Merrett and Darcy Parish eight each and Nate Caddy has had three shots \u2013 albeit for three behinds. Archer Day-Wicks has been the unlikely scene stealer, taking one of the marks of the season and booting two goals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Great goal: Pies star Jordan De Goey.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bc27b8f594ed5666a4ef42d024132cda5beee862.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bNAuyX\"\/>Great goal: Pies star Jordan De Goey.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Pies don\u2019t look pretty but have been effective. Two of their four goals came from surges from the centre square, another goal from a howler by Ben McKay deep in defence. There\u2019s a bit of Daicos or bust about them. Josh and Nick have had 12 and 10 disposals respectively, and Scott Pendlebury seven. They\u2019re the only Pies in the top 10 ball-winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon fans came to the MCG thinking they were a real hope of causing upset. Their confidence should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-629456","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\/629456","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=629456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}