{"id":375594,"date":"2026-01-17T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375594\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:00:12","slug":"team-news-preston-north-end-vs-derby-county-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/375594\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM NEWS: Preston North End vs Derby County &#8211; Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Eustace has confirmed Derby County\u2019s starting line-up for their Sky Bet Championship meeting with Preston North End at Deepdale (3pm kick-off).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/INSERT - 003 -  Preston North End vs Derby County - 17th January 2026.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Rams have made five changes from the side that lined up in the Emirates FA Cup against Leeds United last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Clarke returns to the fold in defence, while Danny Batth will make his second consecutive appearance, after starting at Pride Park last week. Left-back Callum Elder also rejoins the XI after being rested in the cup.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder David Ozoh, who came from the bench in the FA Cup, will begin in the middle of the park for the first time since he picked up a thigh injury in November\u2019s away trip to Blackburn Rovers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/INSERT - 006 -  Preston North End vs Derby County - 17th January 2026.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lewis Travis will also make his first league start since October alongside Ozoh in midfield and will don the captain\u2019s armband.<\/p>\n<p>Chilean international Ben Brereton D\u00edaz has netted in his last two games and will line up for his 22nd league outing for the Rams. Rhian Brewster was a second-half substitute against Leeds and will start at Deepdale.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Agyemang also comes back into the starting picture after being rested at Pride Park.<\/p>\n<p>Derby\u2019s January addition, Oscar Fraulo, got his first playing experience in black and white with a 45-minute cameo in the cup, and he begins on the bench at Deepdale.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Line-Up_4x5.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Preston North End: Walton (GK), Whiteman (C), McCann, Storey, Dobbin, Lewis, Gibson, Devine, Osmaji\u0107, Offiah, Potts.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Cornell (GK), Valentin, Lindsay, Jebbison, Fr\u00f8kjaer, Thompson, Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Derby County: Zetterstr\u00f6m (GK), Batth, Clarke, Lang\u00e5s, Agyemang, Brewster, Ozoh, Elder, Brereton D\u00edaz, Travis (C), Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: O\u2019Donnell (GK), Forsyth, Blackett-Taylor, Weimann, Salvesen, Thompson, Ward, Nyambe, Fraulo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768672812_872_DCFC App Update June 2025_1920 x 1080.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Eustace has confirmed Derby County\u2019s starting line-up for their Sky Bet Championship meeting with Preston North End&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-375594","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\/375594","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=375594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}