{"id":720826,"date":"2026-06-07T10:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720826\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T10:28:24","slug":"afl-news-2026-sydney-swans-defeat-st-kilda-jai-serong-winning-goal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720826\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL news 2026 | Sydney Swans defeat St Kilda; Jai Serong winning goal video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sydney<\/a> has completed the great escape after a final-minute goal from Jai Serong sealed victory against St Kilda<\/a>. <\/p>\n

With two minutes left and St Kilda leading by five, it looked like the Swans had blown a golden opportunity when Nick Blakey fired a shot from 45 metres out. <\/p>\n

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Jai Serong is mobbed by his teammates.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Blakey\u2019s kick was flat and hard with St Kilda\u2019s Jack Silvagni taking a mark just before the line at the SCG. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe mis-hit it,\u201d Brad Johnson said on Fox Footy. <\/p>\n

The hosts went back inside 50 twice with under a minute left and the second time a ball-up came in an attacking spot. <\/p>\n

Brodie Grundy tapped the ball back to Isaac Heeney<\/a> who navigated traffic before finding Serong who snapped a left-footed goal to put his side one-point ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe great escape is on for the Swans from 32 down, they take the lead with seconds left,\u201d caller Dwayne Russell said. <\/p>\n

The cameras then panned to coach Dean Cox who erupted from the box before frantically speaking on the phone. <\/p>\n

Sydney dominated the final seconds, clearing the ball back inside 50 with Joel Amartey taking a mark on the siren. Amartey couldn\u2019t kick a goal but it didn\u2019t matter with Sydney winning 15.14 (104) – 15.12 (102)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The full-time score was the only time Sydney had been in the lead at the end of a quarter. St Kilda had led by 17 points at the first break, followed by eight and six point leads. In the second quarter, the Saints were at one stage leading 9.2 (56) – 3.6 (24). <\/p>\n

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Dean Cox reacts to Jai Serong’s goal.\u00a0Fox Footy<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was incredible, until that final second I thought they were done and dusted. They just found something with 10 minutes of play remaining,\u201d Gerard Healy said.<\/p>\n

St Kilda will be devastated by their capitulation with Liam Ryan topping the goalscoring list with five. Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera had the most touches with 32. Isaac Heeney (30) and Chad Warner (29) were next on the disposals list for Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney has completed the great escape after a final-minute goal from Jai Serong sealed victory against St Kilda.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-720826","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\/720826","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=720826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}