{"id":389566,"date":"2026-01-05T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389566\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:02:08","slug":"derby-boss-eustace-on-disappointing-wrexham-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389566\/","title":{"rendered":"Derby boss Eustace on disappointing Wrexham loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derby County boss John Eustace has rued his side&#8217;s lack of quality in the final third after their 2-1 loss to Wrexham on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Rams had equalised against the Welsh side through Ben Brereton Diaz but Wrexham restored their one goal advantage shortly after half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we deserved at least a point, the way we started the game was not great, and going a goal down was poor,&#8221; Eustace told BBC Radio Derby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We grew into the first half, we scored a great goal and felt very comfortable, I thought we were very strong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then we started the second half like we started the first half. We wanted to go out there, be on the front foot and we made a couple of mistakes and got punished by a fantastic goal.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We huffed and puffed in the second half and just lacked that bit of quality in the final third to make something happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767618128_746_.gif\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derby County boss John Eustace has rued his side&#8217;s lack of quality in the final third after their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[165328,165327,49,48,165330,165329,165326,561,82,43871],"class_list":["post-389566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bbc-radio-derby","tag-ben-brereton-diaz","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-derby-county","tag-goal-advantage","tag-john-eustace","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-wrexham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}