That late loss to in-form Boro had been Stoke’s first reverse in seven games, but they had to dig deep to eke out a result in a poor game against an injury-hit Derby side who have no wins in their past six in the Championship.<\/p>\n
The only excitement of the first half came as Rams’ striker Carlton Morris threatened to burst through on goal but went down under a challenge from Bosun Lawal, bringing loud protests from Eustace on the sidelines.<\/p>\n
Potters boss Mark Robins sent on George Hirst as a substitute at half-time but it was another Scottish summer signing who made the breakthrough just four minutes after the restart.<\/p>\n
Ethan Galbraith lifted a free-kick into the box and Graham, signed from Dundee, saw his header strike Morris on the back and loop beyond the grasp of Rams keeper Josh Vickers.<\/p>\n
With Lewis Travis limping off shortly afterwards, after making his first start since August due to injury, Derby were cursing their luck.<\/p>\n
They offered a response as Rhian Brewster’s shot glanced off the outside of a post, but Stoke countered dangerously, with Hirst, Djibril Soumare and Justin Devenny all going close to adding a second.<\/p>\n
Derby summoned one last effort and almost snatched a point as Morris headed the ball on and Ozoh’s volley was heading for the bottom corner until Johansson got down brilliantly to turn it away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That late loss to in-form Boro had been Stoke’s first reverse in seven games, but they had to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-805836","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\/805836","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=805836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}