{"id":134922,"date":"2025-09-13T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/134922\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:22:08","slug":"stoke-city-1-0-birmingham-city-bosun-lawal-header-earns-potters-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/134922\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke City 1-0 Birmingham City: Bosun Lawal header earns Potters victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defender Bosun Lawal&#8217;s looping first-half header was enough to earn Stoke City victory over Birmingham City and secure a fourth win in five Championship games this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lawal leapt impressively at the far post from a Sorba Thomas corner and sent his header back into the side netting past a scrambling Ryan Allsop, who was unable to claw it away under pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Potters created little after that, although Thomas smashed an effort against the post before the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Blues, who have now lost back-to-back league games and three in a row in all competitions, looked equally unlikely to score, failing to register a single attempt on target at the bet365 Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defender Bosun Lawal&#8217;s looping first-half header was enough to earn Stoke City victory over Birmingham City and secure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-134922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}