{"id":6368,"date":"2024-11-02T05:44:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T05:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fa-cup-first-round-the-efl-sides-in-danger-of-an-upset\/"},"modified":"2024-11-02T05:44:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T05:44:35","slug":"fa-cup-first-round-the-efl-sides-in-danger-of-an-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/fa-cup-first-round-the-efl-sides-in-danger-of-an-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup first round: The EFL sides in danger of an upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burton Albion are yet to win a single game in League One and are rooted to the foot of the table, seven points adrift from safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Brewers are on a run of eight straight defeats in all competitions and their only victory so far this season came against Leicester City\u2019s Under-21s in the EFL Trophy on 20 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two months and 11 games of football have passed since then and despite being three divisions lower, Scarborough Athletic will surely smell blood when they arrive at Pirelli Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burton do have a recent history of succumbing to lower league opposition, losing 1-0 away at Barnet, who were two tiers below in the National League, in the first round in 2020-21. They were also knocked out by League Two Grimsby Town in the third round in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, their National League North visitors have won five of their past eight matches in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Seadogs, led by former Manchester United, Middlesbrough and West Brom player Jonathan Greening, will believe they can inflict yet more misery on the managerless Yellow and Black Army.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwygpyky88jo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burton Albion are yet to win a single game in League One and are rooted to the foot of the table, seven points adrift from safety. The Brewers are on a run of eight straight defeats in all competitions and their only victory so far this season came against Leicester City\u2019s Under-21s in the EFL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6370,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions\/6370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}