{"id":644088,"date":"2026-05-02T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644088\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:20:10","slug":"afl-round-eight-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-marvel-stadium-in-melbourne-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644088\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round eight 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Marvel Stadium in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That was a tough quarter for Essendon fans in the Marvel stands, who honestly did not have much to cheer about.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Ashcroft lights up Marvel Stadium.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/63ed9448024f86c274c9864110905708eba07e51.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Will Ashcroft lights up Marvel Stadium.AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>Chris Fagan\u2019s team only gave up one goal for the first quarter, and booted six of their own for a dominant term.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Morris and former No.1 pick Cam Rayner have been especially prolific in the first term, with Morris converting a contested mark to goal in the final few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Lohmann had a shot after the siren but only managed a behind.<\/p>\n<p>QT: Lions 6.2 (38) lead the Bombers 1.3 (9)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That was a tough quarter for Essendon fans in the Marvel stands, who honestly did not have much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-644088","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\/644088","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=644088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}