{"id":525447,"date":"2026-04-11T16:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525447\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:24:15","slug":"southampton-2-1-derby-county-saints-overcome-championship-play-off-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525447\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton 2-1 Derby County: Saints overcome Championship play-off rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southampton moved up to fifth in the Championship table with a come-from-behind win that leaves Derby County in danger of missing out on the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carlton Morris ghosted in unchecked at the back post to guide home the opener for Derby after Joe Ward&#8217;s corner was unwittingly directed into the forward&#8217;s path by Southampton&#8217;s Caspar Jander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leo Scienza levelled with a brilliantly curled effort just after the hour mark and Taylor Harwood-Bellis competed the turnaround with a powerful header from a pinpoint Ryan Manning cross.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victory lifted Saints five points clear of seventh-placed Wrexham, who face Birmingham City on Sunday, while the Rams are a further point and place adrift of the Welsh side with four games remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton moved up to fifth in the Championship table with a come-from-behind win that leaves Derby County in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-525447","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\/525447","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=525447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}