{"id":706196,"date":"2026-05-31T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706196\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:32:18","slug":"west-coast-eagles-vs-essendon-live-afl-round-12-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-optus-stadium-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/706196\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Eagles vs Essendon LIVE: AFL round 12 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Optus Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon kicked the final two goals of the third quarter to bring some respectability to the scoreboard after West Coast dominated with eight unanswered goals including the first five goals of the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The margin is 41 points but the Bombers could have easily been further behind as the Eagles took full control with Harley Reid, Tim Kelly, Liam Baker and Willem Duursma outstanding in the middle and Jake Waterman dominating inside 50.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bombers and Eagles face off in Perth. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f52a2f1b598389a1a5b351f1c7f2174b1b8ab794.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Bombers and Eagles face off in Perth. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>They had the wind and made the most of it. Ben McKay broke the run of goals with his first major as an Essendon player after playing up forward.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s too big a lead for Essendon to run down but they have a chance to reduce the margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon kicked the final two goals of the third quarter to bring some respectability to the scoreboard after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-706196","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\/706196","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=706196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}