{"id":702072,"date":"2026-05-29T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702072\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:35:11","slug":"team-selection-dons-bring-in-five-to-face-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/702072\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Selection: Dons bring in five to face Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Announcement\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                Essendon has named it&#8217;s side for Sunday Night&#8217;s clash at Optus Stadium.\n            <\/p>\n<p>The Bombers have finalised their side to face the Eagles on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Both midfielders\u00a0Elijah Tsatas\u00a0and\u00a0Will Setterfield are set to return, after being withdrawn from last weeks VFL match as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Saad El-Hawli will return after making a full recovery from a broken collarbone.<\/p>\n<p>Nik Cox\u00a0on the back of his strong VFL performance has been named to play.<\/p>\n<p>Max Kondogiannis rounds out the ins, with the draftee named to play his fourth game of senior footy.<\/p>\n<p>Essendon will play Sunday at 7:20PM (AEST) at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Announcement Essendon has named it&#8217;s side for Sunday Night&#8217;s clash at Optus Stadium. The Bombers have finalised their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,83,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-702072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-text","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702072","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=702072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}