{"id":933002,"date":"2026-05-02T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/933002\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:54:33","slug":"delano-burgzorg-on-target-as-roy-hodgson-ends-bristol-city-spell-with-victory-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/933002\/","title":{"rendered":"Delano Burgzorg on target as Roy Hodgson ends Bristol City spell with victory \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goals from Delano Burgzorg and substitute Sam Bell saw Roy Hodgson end his short spell as Bristol City interim head coach with a 2-0 Championship victory over Stoke at Ashton Gate.<\/p>\n

The home side led inside a minute as Stoke goalkeeper Viktor Johansson somehow contrived to lose control of the ball under no pressure in a central position inside his box and gifted it to on-loan striker Burgzorg, who marked his first Ashton Gate start with the simplest of finishes from 12 yards.<\/p>\n

It was not until the 89th minute that Hodgson could relax, Rob Dickie heading down a Mark Sykes corner for Bell to side-foot home from eight yards.<\/p>\n

Stoke contributed plenty to an entertaining end-of-season clash, but could not find a finish to match their promising approach play.<\/p>\n

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Hodgson made two changes for the hosts in his final game in charge, bringing in centre-back Dickie and midfielder Adam Randell.<\/p>\n

Stoke boss Mark Robins recalled Johansson and gave a first start since mid-March to Junior Tchamadeu among several changes.<\/p>\n

Stoke fans behind his goal showed their support for Johansson after his astonishing early blunder, urging him to give them a wave, which he did gratefully.<\/p>\n

He was soon in action to save a low Scott Twine shot and then saw a low effort from Tomi Horvat flash inches wide of the far post.<\/p>\n

The Robins\u2019 first scare came after 18 minutes from their own player when Twine sliced an attempted long pass across his back-line and was relieved to see the ball drift past the far post, with goalkeeper Radek Vitek helpless.<\/p>\n

Randell had a shot deflected wide before \u2013 at the other end \u2013 Stoke\u2019s Bae Jun-Ho saw a fierce effort blocked.<\/p>\n

The resulting corner was cleared to Tchamadeu, who blasted a 20-yard shot against the crossbar only for the assistant referee to signal offside before a team-mate could react to the rebound.<\/p>\n

Twine had a penalty claim rejected when going down inside the box just after the half-hour mark and should have increased the home side\u2019s lead on the stroke of half-time when \u2013 after showing excellent control and making space eight yards out \u2013 he could only fire the ball over.<\/p>\n

The visitors made a change for the start of the second half, Tatsuki Seko replacing Ben Pearson.<\/p>\n

They began brightly, but it was Bristol who threatened again when Dickie headed over from a Horvat free-kick.<\/p>\n

Stoke were hanging on as a Horvat\u2019s low shot came back off a post and the resulting corner saw Randell head narrowly wide.<\/p>\n

But, playing towards their own fans, the visitors were far from finished, forcing a string of corners and some desperate defending from their opponents.<\/p>\n

Several chances went begging before Bell\u2019s late strike made it three wins and two draws from Hodgson\u2019s seven games in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goals from Delano Burgzorg and substitute Sam Bell saw Roy Hodgson end his short spell as Bristol City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,18228,260924,748,9030,208167,393,4884,105136,216050,10031,39245,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-933002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-bristol-city","10":"tag-bristol-city-vs-stoke","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-championship","13":"tag-delano-burgzorg","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-roy-hodgson","17":"tag-sam-bell","18":"tag-soccer","19":"tag-stoke","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116505324400830368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933002","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=933002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}