{"id":733252,"date":"2026-06-13T04:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733252\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:09:11","slug":"melbourne-vs-essendon-live-afl-round-14-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/733252\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne vs Essendon LIVE: AFL round 14 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are at quarter-time at the MCG, and Essendon have been disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>They are flooding back into defence but not bringing enough pressure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Essendon\u2019s Will Setterfield clashes with Melbourne\u2019s Tom Sparrow.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7cf303f46c56f8dc1d7e78884377c47374fa2259.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Essendon\u2019s Will Setterfield clashes with Melbourne\u2019s Tom Sparrow.AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>This has allowed Melbourne to kick the first four goals of the game and five for the term to take an 18-point lead into the first break.<\/p>\n<p>But Ben McKay has continued to enjoy his new life as a forward for Essendon. He missed an early shot, but snapped truly later in the piece to give the Bombers their second goal and at least keep his team in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Will Setterfield kicked Essendon\u2019s first major of the match.<\/p>\n<p>On the stats front, Melbourne have dominated inside 50s by 20 to nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are at quarter-time at the MCG, and Essendon have been disappointing. They are flooding back into defence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-733252","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\/733252","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=733252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}