{"id":327040,"date":"2025-12-20T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327040\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:27:13","slug":"cardiff-city-suffer-setback-after-defeat-by-lincoln-but-remain-clear-at-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327040\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff City suffer setback after defeat by Lincoln but remain clear at top"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bluebirds’ winning runin League One has come to an end after a 2-1 loss<\/p>\n

17:11, 20 Dec 2025Updated 17:11, 20 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"SonnySonny Bradley of Lincoln City scores his side’s second goal(Image: 2025 Chris Vaughan)<\/p>\n

Cardiff City suffered a disappointing defeat against promotion rivals Lincoln, who have now moved into second place in the League One table behind the Bluebirds.<\/p>\n

Bradford City’s defeat to Leyton Orient softened the blow a little for Brian Barry-Murphy’s side who are still three points clear at the summit.<\/p>\n

The in-form Imps withstood some early second-half pressure from the Bluebirds before Sonny Bradley\u2019s powerful header sealed a fifth straight home win.<\/p>\n

The confident hosts had led at half-time through an Alex Robertson own goal before they were pegged back by Perry Ng\u2019s equaliser.<\/p>\n

Reeco Hackett and Tendayi Darikwa both saw shots saved as Lincoln started brightly.<\/p>\n

Yousef Salech hit the crossbar for the visitors in the 37th minute, before Robertson curled narrowly wide.<\/p>\n

But Robertson turned the ball into his own net three minutes later as he tried to clear Hackett\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n

Ng levelled four minutes into the second half after finishing off a slick passing move with a confident finish.<\/p>\n

Robertson had a shot saved before Cian Ashford fired wide.<\/p>\n

Bradley put the Imps back in front after heading home a Tom Bayliss corner in the 67th minute.<\/p>\n

Rob Street missed a glorious chance to wrap up the win after blazing over from close range with 12 minutes to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bluebirds’ winning runin League One has come to an end after a 2-1 loss 17:11, 20 Dec…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[40156,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-cardiff-city-fc","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327040","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=327040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}