{"id":872708,"date":"2026-08-29T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872708\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T13:30:13","slug":"melbourne-vs-carlton-live-afl-wildcard-finals-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/872708\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne vs Carlton LIVE: AFL wildcard finals 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These MCG scenes are awesome \u2013 there\u2019s no other way to describe it.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues\u2019 fans surely can\u2019t believe this has happened, but Josh Fraser\u2019s side is into the elimination final, and who knows what they can do from here.<\/p>\n<p>The season\u2019s feel-good story continues for yet another week. They will be back at the MCG next week, while the Bulldogs will head to Adelaide to take on the Crows.<\/p>\n<p>The Dees have had a super season under Steven King, but they\u2019ve been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>The final crowd was 91,733.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Harry McKay of the Blues celebrates a goal.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/837f6d9ee8077aac0ff14889b5ac96eef31e4021.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Harry McKay of the Blues celebrates a goal.AFL Photos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These MCG scenes are awesome \u2013 there\u2019s no other way to describe it. The Blues\u2019 fans surely can\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-872708","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\/872708","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=872708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}