{"id":417230,"date":"2026-04-25T17:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417230\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:40:14","slug":"sheffield-united-2-3-preston-liam-lindsay-scores-twice-in-north-end-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417230\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield United 2-3 Preston: Liam Lindsay scores twice in North End win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two sides began the day side-by-side in the table after taking contrasting routes through the campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North End were fourth in mid-January but three wins in their past 18 had seen the season fizzle out, while the Blades&#8217; shocking start with 11 defeats in their first 14 matches was too big a handicap to overcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lindsay&#8217;s previous Championship goal was in April 2025 but he ended that drought when he headed home from Jordan Thompson&#8217;s corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And he only needed to wait for a quarter of an hour for his next one as he glanced in Alfie Devine&#8217;s corner from the opposite side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Blades were booed off at half-time but they had a lifeline when Hamer converted after Femi Seriki was tripped by Andrija Vukcevic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dobbin finished off a good counter-attack at the other end shortly before Bamford completed the scoring with an impressive 13th goal in 27 appearances since joining the Blades in November, a bright spot in a bad season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home side pushed for an equaliser, but it did not come, and Heckingbottom was able to complete a league double against his old club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two sides began the day side-by-side in the table after taking contrasting routes through the campaign. North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-417230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}