{"id":8920,"date":"2026-02-18T16:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=8920"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:27:53","slug":"bristol-city-2-2-wrexham-max-birds-late-stunner-earns-robins-a-point-against-red-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=8920","title":{"rendered":"Bristol City 2-2 Wrexham: Max Bird&#8217;s late stunner earns Robins a point against Red Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following an uneventful start to proceedings, Wrexham&#8217;s control grew as the first half wore on &#8211; with Radek Vitek keeping out a tame Callum Doyle header. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the Red Dragons went ahead on 34 minutes as Doyle&#8217;s cross struck George Tanner before falling into the path of Rathbone who instinctively lashed into the net from 10 yards out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following his side&#8217;s lacklustre showing in the opening 45, Gerhard Struber sent on Armstrong, Delano Burgzorg and Knight at the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tomi Horvat forced Arthur Okonkwo into a smart save just 15 seconds after the restart as the hosts swiftly got on the front foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Armstrong rifled beyond Okonkwo from a narrow angle a minute later to end his seven-game run without a goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nathan Broadhead and Armstrong both had efforts to put their side ahead as the contest produced more goalmouth action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Williams replaced the injured Adam Randell as Phil Parkinson sent on top scorer Kieffer Moore, Josh Windass and George Dobson with 20 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the Welsh side regained the lead in the 76th minute as Issa Kabore&#8217;s cross was turned into his own net by Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dobson spurned a golden opportunity to seal victory nine minutes from time as he dragged a shot well wide following slick build-up play between fellow substitutes Windass and Moore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were made to pay for that miss as Bird produced a moment of quality to make it 2-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dobson thought he had one final chance to earn his side all three points, but he could only turn Windass&#8217; cross wide in the third minute of added time, although the offside flag had been raised as the contest ended level &#8211; with both sides missing the chance to move into the top six.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an uneventful start to proceedings, Wrexham&#8217;s control grew as the first half wore on &#8211; with Radek Vitek keeping out a tame Callum Doyle header. And the Red Dragons went ahead on 34 minutes as Doyle&#8217;s cross struck George Tanner before falling into the path of Rathbone who instinctively lashed into the net from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}