{"id":346728,"date":"2026-01-01T17:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346728\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:37:05","slug":"bromley-2-0-newport-county-league-two-leaders-too-strong-for-strugglers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346728\/","title":{"rendered":"Bromley 2-0 Newport County: League Two leaders too strong for strugglers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leaders Bromley saw off the challenge of lowly Newport County to cement their lead at the top of League Two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Going into the encounter, the stark contrast between the teams&#8217; fortunes was underlined by Bromley having lost only four games while Newport had won only four times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newport held out until just before the final whistle of the opening period beckoned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jude Arthurs hit the post and from the rebound Michael Cheek&#8217;s powerful drive was directed into the back of the net by Courtney Baker-Richardson, with an own goal credited to the Newport striker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ravens doubled their lead in the 74th minute as Nicke Kabamba met Will Hondermarck&#8217;s cross to find the net from close range and Nathan Opoku&#8217;s late reply was not enough to affect the outcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bromley host Oldham on Sunday, 4 January aiming to continue their promotion challenge while Newport host Tranmere Rovers in the hope of boosting their hopes of avoiding relegation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leaders Bromley saw off the challenge of lowly Newport County to cement their lead at the top of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-346728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346728","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=346728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}