{"id":837312,"date":"2026-08-01T07:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837312\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:24:19","slug":"st-kilda-vs-sydney-swans-live-afl-round-21-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-marvel-stadium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/837312\/","title":{"rendered":"St Kilda vs Sydney Swans LIVE: AFL round 21 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from Marvel Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney have overrun the brave Saints to win by 19 points at Marvel Stadium during an afternoon of injury mayhem that saw a 42-minute final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Play was suspended during the last term after Sydney defender Will Edwards suffered a badly broken ankle in a marking contest. He required a green whistle for pain relief and was taken from the ground on a motorised cart. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"William Edwards is taken from the ground with a broken leg.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/c64c7e9b3b8c039ee8b3a4f461fd40e60d8b8445.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>William Edwards is taken from the ground with a broken leg.via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Not long after, Jack Silvagni had to be helped from the field in pain with a dislocated shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney also lost James Rowbottom with a broken hand in the first term, while St Kilda superstar Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera spent time off the ground with a hip ailment and teammate Tom De Koning needed treatment for a hamstring concern.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack Silvagni leaves the ground with a dislocated shoulder.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/f75d14848a6a4a1904e3be267b1a0bf4e538b42e.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Jack Silvagni leaves the ground with a dislocated shoulder.via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Swans kicked the first two goals of the game, but then trailed by nine points at quarter time, 13 points at half-time and 12 points at the final break as St Kilda dominated possession and Wanganeen-Milera booted three goals.<\/p>\n<p>But with the St Kilda midfielder clearly hampered in the final term, finishing the game out as a forward, Sydney\u2019s midfielders went on a rampage and the Swans kicked seven last-quarter goals to St Kilda\u2019s two. They won 16.11 (107) to St Kilda\u2019s 13.10 (88).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese guys are really physical,\u201d Swans star Isaac Heeney told Fox Footy after the game. \u201cI found out the hard way in the guts there, and a few of the boys came off not that great, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo hopefully, Rowy\u2019s OK. I think he has broken the middle bone, so hopefully it is a pretty quick turn around. And then, Will, poor fella, that was one of the grosser ones I have seen, so hopefully he can bounce back pretty quick. But he\u2019s been outstanding for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Play was stopped for 10 minutes while medical staff attended 23-year-old Edwards for what appeared to be a compound fracture.<\/p>\n<p>He did not make his AFL debut until this year after a serious leg infection and then a broken leg threatened his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney have overrun the brave Saints to win by 19 points at Marvel Stadium during an afternoon of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-837312","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\/837312","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=837312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}