{"id":824602,"date":"2026-07-26T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824602\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:56:10","slug":"afl-r20-match-report-saints-kick-clear-of-kangas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824602\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL R20 match report: Saints kick clear of Kangas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                St Kilda has defeated North Melbourne by 31 points at Marvel Stadium on Sunday afternoon\n            <\/p>\n<p>St Kilda has defeated North Melbourne by 31 points at Marvel Stadium on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The 13.15 (93) to 8.14 (62) result puts a massive dent in the Kangaroos&#8217; wildcard aspirations, with the Saints leaping up to 10th on the ladder.<\/p>\n<p>North Melbourne sits in 13th, now one game and percentage behind the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>St Kilda booted the last three goals of the third term to kick clear and set up the win, with Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera the catalyst with three third-quarter goals of his own.<\/p>\n<p>He finished with four goals and 46 disposals, while Harry Sheezel was North Melbourne&#8217;s best with 29 touches and a goal.<\/p>\n<p>KANGAROOS v SAINTS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmfc.com.au\/matches\/8209\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Roos will now face Hawthorn at Launceston&#8217;s University of Tasmania Stadium on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kilda has defeated North Melbourne by 31 points at Marvel Stadium on Sunday afternoon St Kilda has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-824602","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\/824602","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=824602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}