{"id":587184,"date":"2025-11-22T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587184\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T17:21:12","slug":"starting-xis-duffy-starts-in-philippe-clements-first-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587184\/","title":{"rendered":"STARTING XIs: Duffy starts in Philippe Clement&#8217;s first game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Republic of Ireland international will make just his third Championship start of the season, with Jakov Medic on the bench.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The only other change to the team which started City&#8217;s last game &#8211; the home defeat by Leicester a fortnight ago which cost Liam Manning his job &#8211; sees Jack Stacey come in at right back, meaning Kenny McLean can shift to a more familiar central midfield role. Pelle Mattsson drops out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Kellen Fisher switches back to left back.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Up top, Josh Sargent will lead the line, with Mathias Kvistgaarden, who has scored in his last two games.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Matej Jurasek was missing from the squad because of illness.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Birmingham City:<\/strong> Beadle, Tomoki, Neumann, Klarer, Cochrane, Doyle, Leonard, Roberts, Stansfield, Gray, Ducksch. Subs: Allsop, Osayi-Samuel, Cashin, Robinson, Anderson, Kanya, Koumas, Dykes, Furuhashi.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Norwich City:<\/strong> Kovacevic, Stacey, Duffy, Darling, Fisher, Topic, McLean, Makama, Kvistgaarden, Schwartau, Sargent. Subs: Grimshaw, Medic, McConville, Wright, Springett, Mattsson, Forson, Marcondes, Mundle-Smith.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Referee:<\/strong> Anthony Backhouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republic of Ireland international will make just his third Championship start of the season, with Jakov Medic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-587184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115594506049968846","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}