{"id":67590,"date":"2026-08-08T05:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/67590\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:27:10","slug":"afl-round-22-live-updates-melbourne-vs-fremantle-sydney-vs-port-adelaide-geelong-vs-essendon-adelaide-vs-richmond-blog-scores-and-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/67590\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL round 22 live updates: Melbourne vs Fremantle, Sydney vs Port Adelaide, Geelong vs Essendon, Adelaide vs Richmond \u2014 blog, scores and stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LukeLuke Jackson took control of the contest in the third quarter. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Things tightened up as expected in that quarter, but it was still tremendously entertaining footy.<\/p>\n

Freo narrowly wins the quarter after kicking 3.2 to Melbourne’s 2.3 for the quarter.<\/p>\n

Something to watch out for in the final term is set shot goalkicking. The Dockers are 12.1 on set shots for the afternoon while the Dees have kicked 3.5, including a Bayley Fritsch miss from directly in front in the final few minutes of the quarter.<\/p>\n

Melbourne leads the inside 50 count 42-36, but Fremantle leads the clearances 35-25, including a 21-13 edge around the ground.<\/p>\n

Luke Jackson’s influence on this match has gradually increased as the match has worn on. He’s got 16 touches, 21 hitouts, seven clearances and seven score involvements, and picked up half of those disposals in the third term alone.<\/p>\n

Tom Sparrow is the leading ball-winner on the ground with 22 touches and has added seven score involvements and two goals.<\/p>\n

Which player will stand up in the final quarter? I’m sad that there’s only one quarter of this match left, that’s how good it’s been.<\/p>\n

Freo has led at three-quarter time in 16 matches this season. They’ve won 15 of those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Jackson took control of the contest in the third quarter. (Getty Images) Things tightened up as expected…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77,9202,9204,3009,5064,20308,191,260,9875,261,5063,9733,5069],"class_list":["post-67590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-melbourne","tag-afl","tag-bombers","tag-cats","tag-crows","tag-demons","tag-dockers","tag-live","tag-melbourne","tag-power","tag-sport","tag-swans","tag-tigers","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}