{"id":795042,"date":"2026-07-12T07:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T07:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T07:17:13","slug":"melbourne-vs-richmond-live-afl-round-18-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/795042\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne vs Richmond LIVE: AFL round 18 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies, I\u2019ve cleared jinxed the weather gods, because the skies have darkened, and the rain is bucketing down. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the end of quarter time at the MCG and Melbourne are ahead by 12 points. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nathan Broad spoils a mark \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/efe90950150cded5df15b45a83c6e703a7cea9cb.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Nathan Broad spoils a mark via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>After a fiery start from the Tigers, Melbourne grabbed the momentum, showcasing a slicker style of footy and punching in three unanswered goals. <\/p>\n<p>Melbourne have dominated the territory this quarter, leading inside 50s 17 to nine and enjoying 67 per cent time in forward half.<\/p>\n<p>An impressive Jacob van Rooyen and Jake Melksham have two goals for Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Score: Melbourne lead 5.2 (32) to Richmond 3.2 (20)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apologies, I\u2019ve cleared jinxed the weather gods, because the skies have darkened, and the rain is bucketing down.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-795042","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\/795042","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=795042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}