{"id":723379,"date":"2026-08-01T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723379\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:11:08","slug":"exeter-city-1-1-bristol-city-recap-reaction-as-robins-held-by-grecians-after-argyle-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723379\/","title":{"rendered":"Exeter City 1-1 Bristol City recap: Reaction as Robins held by Grecians after Argyle draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Bristol City concluded their pre-season friendly schedule, and double-header Saturday, with a 1-1 draw against League Two Exeter City on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A late goal from Tomi Horvat proved to be enough to cancel out a magnificent first-half strike from Reece Cole on a warm evening, as Michael Skubala\u2019s Robins were held by Matt Taylor\u2019s Grecians at St James Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The Slovenian international was beneficiary of a large deflection on the edge of the Exeter box with just seven minutes of regulation time to play. That small intervention completely changed the path of the ball to give the City supporters stationed behind the goal something to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">With the visit to Devon marking the end of the Reds\u2019 run of friendly fixtures this summer, attention now shifts to the start of the competitive campaign. City will host Walsall at Ashton Gate on Thursday evening in the first round of the Carabao Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh\" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/Tomi Horvat scores late leveller as Bristol City conclude friendly schedule with Exeter City draw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Read the full report here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol City concluded their pre-season friendly schedule, and double-header Saturday, with a 1-1 draw against League Two Exeter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[79769,24820,59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bristol-city-fc","tag-football-league-championship","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723379","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=723379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}