{"id":563627,"date":"2026-05-03T07:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563627\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:13:19","slug":"team-news-derby-county-vs-sheffield-united-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563627\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM NEWS: Derby County vs Sheffield United &#8211; Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derby County\u2019s starting XI to face Sheffield United has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/18 -  Derby County vs Sheffield United - 2nd May 2026_web.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Head Coach John Eustace has made three changes from the side that began at Queens Park Rangers last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Jaydon Banel netted the winning goal against Queens Park Rangers last weekend and will make his 14th appearance of the season, having scored in three of the last five matches.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Forsyth will make his 404th outing for the Rams, starting in defence alongside Matt Clarke, Sondre Lang\u00e5s and Joe Ward.<\/p>\n<p>David Ozoh comes back into the centre of the park with Lewis Travis, who will lead the side out of the tunnel, while fellow midfielder Bobby Clark returns to the matchday squad, starting on the bench.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Line Up_4x5-12.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Derby County: Zetterstr\u00f6m (GK), Forsyth, Clarke, Lang\u00e5s, Morris, Ozoh, Szmodics, Ward, Brereton D\u00edaz, Travis (C), Banel.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Vickers (GK), Batth, Salvesen, Johnston, Sanderson, Fraulo, Eames, Clark, Allen.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United: Davies (GK), Tanganga, Arblaster, Cannon, Hamer, O\u2019Hare, Burrows, McGuiness, Seriki, Peck, Bamford.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Betts (GK), Ings, Hover, Soumar\u00e9, Chong, Sasnauskas, McGlinchey, Riedwald,  Rothwell.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/APP June 2025.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derby County\u2019s starting XI to face Sheffield United has been confirmed. Head Coach John Eustace has made three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-563627","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\/563627","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=563627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}