Football League World looks at 3 things we learnt from Derby County's 3-1 defeat to Blackburn Rovers last night.
With away games against Swansea, QPR and Blackpool making up three of their last remaining eight, the Rams simply cannot afford to keep coming away from their away matches with no points if they are going to make an unlikely survival bid. The Rams have only eight games left this campaign to make up a deficit that currently stands at six points following Reading’s draw with AFC Bournemouth last night. The Rams took the lead through a Ravel Morrison strike in the 28th minute and held their lead into half-time.
The centre-forward was introduced as a second-half substitute against former side Blackburn but was unable to see out the match after sustaining an ankle ...
"Colin is a big strong lad ,and for him to go off on a stretcher, I don't think it is going to be a good one. Manager Wayne Rooney admitted after the match that they "don't think it is going to be a good one". "Obviously, I don't know how bad it is at the minute," said Wayne Rooney.
A night to remember as Rovers come back from a goal down to win thanks to headers from Scott Wharton, Tyrhys Dolan and Sam Gallagher.
They came closer to doing that soon after when former Rover Tom Lawrence latched onto an attempted pass from Harry Pickering, but the Welshman was denied by Kaminski from inside the box in the last opportunity of what was a lacklustre first 45 minutes for Rovers. Morrison nearly doubled his and his side's tally with seven minutes of the half remaining when he lashed a volley wide of Thomas Kaminski's right-hand post after a defensive header dropped kindly to him in the box. Scott Wharton marked his 100th career start with his first league goal for the club when he thumped home a header from Joe Rothwell's corner before Tyrhys Dolan made it two with a close-range headed finish of his own.
Tony Mowbray's men head into the game on the back of a late sucker-punch against Bristol City, with Andi Weimann's injury time goal winning the match for the ...
Rovers need to turn up and get back among the wins, in order to stay in the play-off spots, as the run-in commences. Blackburn Rovers are back at it as they host Derby County in the Championship this evening. Tonight, Rovers have the chance to put things right as they take on a spirited Rams side, who are remarkably still in the survival race.
Manager Wayne Rooney has made two changes to the side which was beaten by AFC Bournemouth at the weekend for this evening's Sky Bet Championship clash ...
Jason Knight also returns to the starting line-up as he replaces Luke Plange, who is named amongst the substitutes. Rooney has elected to make two changes from Saturday’s 2-0 defeat against the Cherries and there is a return to the starting line-up for Liam Thompson. Manager Wayne Rooney has made two changes to the side
ROVERS boss Tony Mowbray is pleased to have secured “an important three points” following his side's 3-1 win against Derby.
“I’m pleased for the team and pleased for the strikers. “It was just a conversation of our expectations at half time and we got on the front foot second half. “I should have maybe changed six or seven players because we looked really tired and drained first half.
Report and free match highlights from the Sky Bet Championship clash between Blackburn Rovers and Derby County at Ewood Park as Tony Mowbrays side come from ...
You could feel the frustration from the fans and the coaches and we had to take a bit more advantage of that. "I had a conversation at half-time of our expectations, we got on the front foot and played how we played in the second half, caused them more problems, took their composure away from them and we got the job done in the end. I said at half-time, 'if they are pressing onto us, make sure we go more direct'. We had that much control, the players thought they were confident they could continue doing that but our decision making was not good enough." I felt we could have been (more than 1-0 up at half-time). Tom Lawrence had a good chance, Buchanan had a good chance and I felt, from the first half, we were in complete control. There was a lot of fear and weren't playing how we play on the front foot. We looked a really tired, emotionally-drained football team in the first half.
Derby County's relegation survival hopes took a dent on Tuesday evening. The Rams gave up a 1-0 lead to Blackburn Rovers, who completed a 3-1 comeback in ...
He was a constant danger throughout the game and his goal was the reward for his efforts. There was one bright spark from the game though and that was Morrison’s performance for the visitors. The tides turned in the second half as Reading pulled one back to earn a 1-1 draw against the promotion hopefuls.
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Daniel Ayala, Ben Brereton Diaz, Deyovaisio Zeefuik and Dilan Markanday also remain on the sidelines. Highlights of the match will be available to watch on the Sky Sports website. He must now consider whether to freshen up his side with games running out.
There's a big game at both ends of the Championship table at Ewood Park tonight, as Blackburn Rovers host Derby County. Despite claiming just one win from ...
Meanwhile, Derby manager Wayne Rooney also makes two alterations from the lineup that lost 2-0 to Bournemouth on Saturday, with Jason Knight and Liam Thompson coming in for Krystian Bielik and Luke Plange, who are both on the bench. Even so, the Rams start tonight knowing that they could move to within two points of safety with victory in Lancashire this evening, depending on results elsewhere. There’s a big game at both ends of the Championship table at Ewood Park tonight, as Blackburn Rovers host Derby County.
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Tony Mowbray has made two changes to his starting XI for this evening's home encounter against Derby County at Ewood Park. Former Ram Bradley Johnson, ...
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We had to manage that better than we did and ultimately that has cost us.” Though Derby may have been depleted by the departures of Phil Jagielka and Graeme Shinnie in the summer, it’s the mental side of their game that needs to be improved on at this stage and if they can get themselves in a better mental position, they could definitely go on and achieve survival. The one bit of hope they can have is the fact Reading don’t seem to be on the rise anytime soon, so they will have the Royals firmly in their sights as they look to end their poor run of form.