{"id":516023,"date":"2026-04-06T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516023\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:19:12","slug":"team-news-derby-county-vs-stoke-city-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516023\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM NEWS: Derby County vs Stoke City &#8211; Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derby County\u2019s starting line-up has been confirmed for their Easter Monday home fixture against Stoke City (3pm kick-off).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Web_55 -  Derby County vs Stoke City - 6th April 2026.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>John Eustace has made one change from the side that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcfc.co.uk\/news\/2026\/04\/report-coventry-city-vs-derby-county-202526\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">narrowly missed out in a clash with league leaders Coventry City on Friday night.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patrick Agyemang will start and make his 37th league appearance of the campaign after coming on from the bench at the CBS Arena three days ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Web_01 -  Derby County vs Stoke City - 6th April 2026.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Rams\u2019 bench has also been bolstered by the returns of defenders Sondre Lang\u00e5s and Max Johnston, who both played 30 and 45 minutes, respectively, for the under-21s on Friday. Lars-J\u00f8rgen Salvesen also comes back into the matchday squad.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Brereton D\u00edaz netted both of Derby\u2019s goals, bringing his total to eight for the season, and he will once again begin at Pride Park Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Line Up vs Stoke City_4x5.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Derby County: O\u2019Donnell (GK), Murkin, Clarke, Agyemang, Morris, Ozoh, Ward, Brereton D\u00edaz, Travis (C), Sanderson, Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: J Thompson (GK), Forsyth, Lang\u00e5s, Salvesen, L Thompson, Johnston, Fraulo, Banel, 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\/04\/1775488752_542_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 Easter Monday home fixture against Stoke City (3pm kick-off).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-516023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516023","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=516023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}