{"id":820888,"date":"2026-07-24T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820888\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:05:14","slug":"melbourne-vs-geelong-cats-live-afl-round-20-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820888\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne vs Geelong Cats LIVE: AFL round 20 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Match winner Shannon Neale said Geelong worked overtime to close down Melbourne\u2019s corridor game in their 20-point win at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>Neale was the beneficiary of the Cats\u2019 pressure through the midfield, booting five goals for the night. Ollie Henry kicked four, Oliver Wiltshire three and Jay Polkinghorne two.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shannon Neale booted five goals against Melbourne.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9b2805c558c7f98e529f4cccc342621ac57f696e.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Shannon Neale booted five goals against Melbourne.Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got a lot of run in their team, so we tried to mitigate that, and we got on top of them, which is great,\u201d Neale told Fox Footy after the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sort of looked at their corridor game. They sort of wanted to get it back through the corridor. Obviously, the \u2019G is a big ground, so they wanted to come back through, so we just tried to sort of defend that and not let them back through, and try and defend them and keep them out wide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match winner Shannon Neale said Geelong worked overtime to close down Melbourne\u2019s corridor game in their 20-point win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-820888","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\/820888","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=820888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}