{"id":642681,"date":"2026-05-01T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642681\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:13:09","slug":"afl-round-eight-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-marvel-stadium-in-melbourne-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/642681\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round eight 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Marvel Stadium in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Young take a bow. That is a moment of magic, a worthy contender for goal of the year.<br \/>The Dockers star nailed a 35m left-foot banana from the boundary line after barely keeping the ball in play.<\/p>\n<p>He won the ball by flipping it over the top of Bulldog opponent Bailey Williams and turning him inside out.<\/p>\n<p>Young has stepped up in this second half with three brilliant goals, thwarting the first-half dominance of Marcus Bontempelli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bloke has elevated himself and he has taken the rest of the Fremantle footy club with him,\u201d Garry Lyon said on Fox Footy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is goal of the year. That is as audacious as you are likely to see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayden Young take a bow. That is a moment of magic, a worthy contender for goal of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-642681","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\/642681","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=642681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}