{"id":847717,"date":"2026-08-08T07:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847717\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:24:12","slug":"live-afl-2026-geelong-cats-vs-essendon-bombers-round-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847717\/","title":{"rendered":"Live AFL 2026, Geelong Cats vs. Essendon Bombers, Round 22"},"content":{"rendered":"

Geelong are eyeing off a return to the top six – and potentially even higher – as their soft run home begins against Essendon at GMHBA Stadium. Live updates below!<\/p>\n

The Cats (12-8, 117.2%) are still within touching distance of the top four, but even avoiding the wildcard spots would be a relief for Chris Scott\u2019s team as a turbulent home-and-away season nears its end.<\/p>\n

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The Bombers, meanwhile, are just hoping for an end to a wretched season, though ruckman Vigo Visentini has reason to perform after being recalled for his first match of the season.<\/p>\n

Match details: Geelong Cats vs Essendon Bombers from 4:35pm AEST at GMHBA Stadium<\/p>\n

Watch it live: On Fox Footy (channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 4:20pm AEST<\/p>\n

Follow Geelong vs Essendon in our live blog below!<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t see the blog, tap here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong are eyeing off a return to the top six – and potentially even higher – as their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-847717","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\/847717","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=847717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}