{"id":644788,"date":"2026-05-02T11:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T11:19:19","slug":"afl-round-eight-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-marvel-stadium-in-melbourne-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/644788\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round eight 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Marvel Stadium in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s been an eruption in activity here.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Carroll flew over the pack for a strong mark in front of goal and converts, but three straight for the Blues ends when Mitch McGovern\u2019s mis-kick at half-back is pounced upon by the Saints, leading to a Mitch Owens mark and goal from about 25m out.<\/p>\n<p>That was a momentum killer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Under the pump: Blues midfielder Adam Cerra.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ea6fea6675171b0d0d4bbab163ca4d97f3e156de.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 bNAuyX\"\/>Under the pump: Blues midfielder Adam Cerra.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>But McGovern makes amends minutes later with a fine left-foot snap from about 45m, the Blues\u2019 lead extending to two goals. Just goes to show how important the mantra \u201cnext play\u201d is.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have 4.1 from six inside-50s this term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s been an eruption in activity here. Matt Carroll flew over the pack for a strong mark in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-644788","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\/644788","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=644788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}