{"id":84810,"date":"2025-08-21T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84810\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:17:07","slug":"live-afl-2025-essendon-bombers-vs-carlton-blues-round-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/84810\/","title":{"rendered":"Live AFL 2025, Essendon Bombers vs Carlton Blues, Round 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essendon will hope to celebrate superstar skipper Zach Merrett\u2019s 250th game in style, and snap one of their longest ever losing streaks, against rivals Carlton to open Round 24.<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers (6-15, 72.3%) have lost 11 straight matches, their worst streak since the supplement saga-impacted 2016 season, when they lost a club record 17 games in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues (8-14, 94.7%) have had an immensely disappointing and injury-hit season and will be keen to claim a second consecutive win to end the year on a high note.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every Round 24 game plus the best coverage of the 2025 AFL finals series, including every game until the Grand Final LIVE with no ad-breaks during play, on Kayo. New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=afl&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>RUN HOME LIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/afl-2025-round-24-run-home-updates-live-ladder-and-finals-scenarios-explained-impact-of-final-round-games-on-predicted-top-eight\/news-story\/c7a4d2b65512617d62420763417542df\" title=\"www.foxsports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Finals scenarios, what every game means for top 8 and live ladder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MATCH CENTRE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/afl\/match-centre\/AFL20252401\" title=\"www.foxsports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Essendon vs Carlton live updates, stats and scores<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The match gets underway at 7:30pm AEST from the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>Watch it live on Fox Footy (channel 504), and streaming on Kayo, from 6:30pm AEST.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Essendon v Carlton in our live blog below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Essendon will hope to celebrate superstar skipper Zach Merrett\u2019s 250th game in style, and snap one of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-84810","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\/84810","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=84810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}