{"id":487774,"date":"2026-03-21T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487774\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T14:40:12","slug":"team-news-derby-county-vs-birmingham-city-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487774\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM NEWS: Derby County vs Birmingham City &#8211; Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derby County\u2019s starting line-up has been confirmed for their Sky Bet Championship clash with Birmingham City (12.30pm kick-off).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/013 -  Derby County vs Birmingham City - 21st March 2026 web.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Head Coach John Eustace has named an unchanged squad from the side that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/03\/report-portsmouth-vs-derby-county-202526\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claimed all three points away to Portsmouth on Monday night.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sam Szmodics scored the winning goal at Pompey and will make his eighth appearance when the Rams host the Blues on home turf.<\/p>\n<p>Richard O\u2019Donnell, who signed a one-year contract extension this week, will be between the sticks once more for his fifth Championship match of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Clarke and Szmodics will both make their 400th professional appearances.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Line Up_4x5-11.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Derby County: O\u2019Donnell (GK), Murkin, Clarke, Agyemang, Brewster, Szmodics, Ward, Brereton D\u00edaz, Travis (C), Sanderson, Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: J Thompson (GK), Forsyth, Morris, Ozoh, Fraulo, Banel, I Gordon, Canoville, Allen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/02\/season-tickets-202627-season-ticket-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774104012_683_2627 All Roads Lead Home - Season Tickets OSN Web.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derby County\u2019s starting line-up has been confirmed for their Sky Bet Championship clash with Birmingham City (12.30pm kick-off).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-487774","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\/487774","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=487774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}