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The Foxes, a flat four and Fraulo
Match report and analysis following Derby County's 2-1 defeat at Leicester City in the EFL Championship. Plus the 4-4-2 and the potential arrival of Oscar Fraulo.

Jack Bryan
Dec 29, 20253 min read


Bloodied and bruised: Derby battle to Boxing Day point at Blues
Report and analysis from Derby County's 1-1 Boxing Day draw at Birmingham City in the EFL Championship.

Jack Bryan
Dec 26, 20254 min read


Two points dropped as Derby step into Christmas?
Analysis of Derby County's 1-1 EFL Championship draw with Portsmouth, while looking ahead to The Rams' upcoming fixtures. Featuring quotes from John Eustace.

Jack Bryan
Dec 22, 20253 min read


Reminders of administration and hope: Thompson strikes as Derby beat Wednesday
In the driving rain on a cold Monday night at Hillsborough, the ball breaks for Liam Thompson. He takes a touch before finding the bottom-right corner with an effort he had drilled into the ground, prompting a rush towards a rapturous away end of 3,900. But the pain he feels as he unwittingly knee-slides on AstroTurf is nothing compared to that felt by administration-stricken Sheffield Wednesday. Could there have been a more fitting opponent for Thompson, who broke into

Jack Bryan
Dec 16, 20254 min read


An own goal apiece as Derby battle to Millwall point
It’s 0-0 with nine minutes to play. Derby and Millwall have been locked in an intensely physical battle. Scrappy doesn’t really do it justice.
In a game with more aerial duels than a Battle of Britain re-enactment, Thierno Ballo wraps his foot around the ball for what must be cross number 300. As he has done countless times, Matt Clarke dives to head the ball clear, but instead it flies into the back of the net.
Even captain for the evening Sondre “quicker than Mbappé” Lang

Jack Bryan
Dec 10, 20254 min read


Derby complete near-perfect response in Swansea
If there is one thing that is coming to characterise this Derby squad, it is players stepping up in the hour of need.

Jack Bryan
Nov 26, 20253 min read


Watford collapse provides a reality check
If anyone needed evidence of why John Eustace’s “we don’t get too high or too low” mantra matters, here it was.
Jack Bryan
Nov 23, 20254 min read


Headers power Derby to win on Eustace’s Blackburn return
Forget jelly and ice cream, forget the cake, Blackburn Rovers had more corners than a Müller factory at their 150 th birthday party. Among the esteemed guests, Colin Hendrie, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Tony Mowbray and David Dunn. An array of cultured footballing folk, invited back to Ewood Park. But less welcome returns were made by John Eustace, and the band of former Blackburn players within his Derby side, whose job it was to sour the occasion. And that they did, surely sh

Jack Bryan
Nov 8, 20254 min read


Super sub Salvesen makes it four wins on the spin
Lars-Jørgen Salvesen celebrates in front of the south stand after the final whistle (Photo: Joe Egerton). In the soggy conditions, it always felt as though someone was going to slip up. When Ivor Pandur did, under pressure from Andi Weimann, enter Lars-Jørgen Salvesen. He’d only been on the pitch a matter of seconds, but the Norwegian composed himself quickly. First a deft clip with his right boot. A second to breathe. Then, as he lifted the ball over Pandur with his le

Jack Bryan
Nov 5, 20254 min read


Morris bags hat-trick as Derby beat The Blades
Match report and analysis as Carlton Morris hits a hat-trick in Derby County's 3-1 EFL Championship victory at Sheffield United.

Jack Bryan
Nov 1, 20255 min read


Derby County Men's season preview 2025-26
Senior Writer Jack Bryan and Joe Egerton preview Derby County's 2025-26 EFL Championship campaign.
How will they line up? Who will be the key players? And crucially, where will The Rams finish?

Jack Bryan
Aug 8, 202512 min read
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