{"id":746435,"date":"2026-08-22T18:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746435\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:52:13","slug":"derby-county-2-2-cardiff-city-rams-fight-back-twice-to-earn-draw-in-thriller-with-bluebirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/746435\/","title":{"rendered":"Derby County 2-2 Cardiff City: Rams fight back twice to earn draw in thriller with Bluebirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defensive injury concerns meant the Bluebirds were without a recognised centre-back in their starting line-up, forcing full-backs Perry Ng and Joel Bagan to fill in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff&#8217;s patched-up defence was put under early pressure from a Derby attack without the injured Sammie Szmodics, and Bagan was forced to clear off the line inside three minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But it was the Bluebirds who took the lead against the run of play when Ashford slotted past Monza-linked Rams keeper Jacob Widell Zetterstr\u00f6m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff&#8217;s lead did not last long. Morris, the Rams&#8217; top goalscorer last season, raced onto a long ball and overpowered Ng before drawing the hosts within seven minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visitors were back in front before the break thanks to Salech, who made no mistake to score his third of the campaign after being teed up by a selfless Rubin Colwill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Undeterred, Derby responded once again and levelled for a second time within three minutes of the restart through a thunderous Clark effort from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defensive injury concerns meant the Bluebirds were without a recognised centre-back in their starting line-up, forcing full-backs Perry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-746435","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\/746435","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=746435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}