{"id":873052,"date":"2026-08-29T20:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/873052\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T20:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:36:34","slug":"melbourne-vs-carlton-live-afl-wildcard-finals-2026-scores-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-the-mcg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/873052\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne vs Carlton LIVE: AFL wildcard finals 2026, scores, results, odds, stats and start time from the MCG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Demons coach Steven King spoke to the media post-game.<\/p>\n<p>On the difference in the match:<br \/>\u201cWe had some momentum and repeat entries, but we weren\u2019t able to capitalise on that field position. When we got those opportunities, we weren\u2019t able to capitalise which is disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It was] a bit of method. Just some composure at times broke down under some real heat, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Demons coach Steven King.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ae8b62535547484286ec1f0110c7343ddcd31cfb.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ioInpc\"\/>Demons coach Steven King.AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>On missing forwards Jacob van Rooyen and Matthew Jefferson:<br \/>\u201cI don\u2019t want to sit here and [make excuses]. Carlton played a really good brand of footy. That [the absences] might have caused some problems ahead of the ball, but I\u2019m really proud that Melksham and McDonald could come in and have a send-off, it\u2019s just disappointing we didn\u2019t give them the send-off they would have liked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demons coach Steven King spoke to the media post-game. On the difference in the match:\u201cWe had some momentum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-873052","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\/873052","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=873052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}