{"id":583227,"date":"2026-04-03T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583227\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:43:18","slug":"roy-hodgson-makes-winning-start-to-spell-as-bristol-city-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/583227\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Hodgson makes winning start to spell as Bristol City boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Hodgson made a winning start as Bristol City interim head coach as they recorded a 2-1 victory at Charlton on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Centre-back Noah Eile&#8217;s first goal since joining from New York Red Bulls at the start of February settled the Championship contest at the Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Former <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"217dee4e-6974-a197-49a2-afda6e1788c9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=448\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> boss Hodgson made his return to club football for the first time since stepping down as <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e8703d92-a160-9bbf-cb81-1be6f3fd7969\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=384\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Palace<\/a> manager in February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>And his City side made a strong start in south-east London with striker Emil Riis squandering a big chance inside the opening three minutes. The Dane was played clean through by Neto Borges but struck the outside of the right post.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors were good value for their opening goal after 11 minutes. Scott Twine had already had a shot blocked by <a data-player-guid=\"b7d915cd-2b8c-7295-8b79-2790b226b68a\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/192034\/amarii-bell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amari&#8217;i Bell<\/a> but made no mistake from inside the area after being picked out by Max Bird.<\/p>\n<p>Charlton goalkeeper Will Mannion made a diving save to his left to push away a Bird attempt.<\/p>\n<p>The Addicks&#8217; leveller on the half-hour mark came against the run of play. <a data-player-guid=\"2249fc62-5f25-d6f9-d38e-a696c243b0a8\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/207538\/lyndon-dykes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lyndon Dykes<\/a> combined with <a data-player-guid=\"7d30b08a-bd21-2c47-2b56-de3d6ca402de\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/283196\/charlie-kelman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Kelman<\/a> and tucked a low finish into the bottom left corner of the net for the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"cc39ec4a-4e7a-5018-879a-7128a89b4028\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=580\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a> international&#8217;s third goal since joining from Birmingham in the winter transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time Charlton had scored in the first half at home since November 22.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Roy Hodgson is taking charge of Bristol City until the end of the season.\u00a0Ben Whitley\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Twine tried a speculative free-kick from near the touchline &#8212; trying to punish Mannion straying from his goal-line &#8212; but the ball just cleared the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p>Charlton&#8217;s Harry Clarke drove over on his weaker left foot in the final action of the first period.<\/p>\n<p>City retook the lead in the 55th minute. Swedish defender Eile scrambled the ball home after Twine&#8217;s free-kick had squirmed out of Mannion&#8217;s grasp.<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Carey sent a half-volley across the face of Radek Vitek&#8217;s goal as the hosts tried to find an instant response but then Mannion was required to make a one-handed stop to deny the influential Twine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/story\/_\/id\/47897492\/championship-promotion-race-millwall-frank-lampard-coventry-wrexham-hunt-premier-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Championship promotion race:Coventry, Wrexham &#8211; who&#8217;s going up to the Premier League?<\/a><br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/table\/_\/league\/eng.2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Championship table<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charlton substitute Ibrahim Fullah produced a 74th-minute attempt from the edge of the box that required a smart save by Vitek.<\/p>\n<p>The on-loan <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/football\/team?id=360\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> goalkeeper made an even better stop from close range to deny Matt Godden, keeping out the experienced forward&#8217;s shot with his legs.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"c6d1b8bf-d312-3757-a8e6-f0c2a27856c2\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/336361\/tyreece-campbell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyreece Campbell<\/a> produced a poor finish after Jayden Fevrier produced an excellent cross a matter of seconds after replacing Charlton captain Greg Docherty.<\/p>\n<p>Kayne Ramsay produced a superb tackle to deny Sinclair Armstrong after the City substitute seized on a mistake by Bell.<\/p>\n<p>Vitek made another big save from Joe Rankin-Costello in a pulsating finale while Armstrong had another chance to kill off the match on the counter but Mannion denied him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Hodgson made a winning start as Bristol City interim head coach as they recorded a 2-1 victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-583227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583227","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=583227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}