Tag: bounce

Derby County 3-1 Blackburn Rovers: Rams bounce back after successive defeats
2 March 2026 Off

Derby County 3-1 Blackburn Rovers: Rams bounce back after successive defeats

By Total Football News

Derby County boss John Eustace haunted his old club Blackburn again as he masterminded his third win over them in just under a year to compound Rovers’ relegation worries.

Hayden Carter headed Blackburn in front before former Rovers striker Ben Brereton Diaz, Matt Clarke and Rhian Brewster netted for rampant Derby as they scored three in the second half.

The rousing win rekindles Derby’s play-off push after they had lost

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Blackburn Rovers: Opinion – New manager bounce in full force at Rovers
16 February 2026 Off

Blackburn Rovers: Opinion – New manager bounce in full force at Rovers

By Total Football News

If there’s such a thing as a ‘new manager bounce’, this was as good an example as you’re likely to see.

This was a meeting of a side harbouring play-off ambitions against one that was struggling to lift the ever-increasing gloom, to create chances, never mind goals. The result – an away win, the visitors scoring three times in a game for only the second time this season.

This was

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Southampton: Podcast – Can Saints bounce back against the best?
18 December 2025 Off

Southampton: Podcast – Can Saints bounce back against the best?

By Total Football News

“Frank Lampard has done an outstanding job [at Coventry] and they’ll come to Southampton a little bit apprehensive as well.

“They would have seen the form the guys [Southampton] are in and they’ll be preparing for a tough game themselves.”

BBC Radio Solent’s Jono Holmes and former Saints goalkeeper Kelvin Davis reflect on what went wrong against Norwich as Southampton prepare to face one of the biggest tests in the

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Derby County: Hard to bounce back from Morris injury – Eustace
9 December 2025 Off

Derby County: Hard to bounce back from Morris injury – Eustace

By Total Football News

Derby County manager John Eustace says it is “always going to be difficult to bounce back” after losing a player of Carlton Morris’ quality to injury.

Morris has netted 10 league goals this season and had scored in four consecutive games before picking up an ankle injury in the first half of the 3-2 defeat by Watford, which will keep him out until February.

The Rams have lost three of

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Luton Town: After back-to-back relegations, how do Hatters bounce back?
8 May 2025 Off

Luton Town: After back-to-back relegations, how do Hatters bounce back?

By Total Football News

“Timing is everything” is a maxim applied in many walks of life.

And in Luton’s case, one point which may work in their favour in League One next season is that Birmingham City and Wrexham will not be in it.

A number of third-tier bosses expressed the view during the campaign that the presence of those two clubs had made the division the best it had ever been.

Hard to

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FPL tips and team of gameweek 18: Erling Haaland is in this week – expect Manchester City to bounce back
26 December 2024 Off

FPL tips and team of gameweek 18: Erling Haaland is in this week – expect Manchester City to bounce back

By Total Football News

Mohamed Salah (captain), Liverpool, £13.5m – home to Leicester City

No words needed – perma-captain until told otherwise.

Kevin de Bruyne, Manchester City, £9.5m – home to Everton

I think everyone is expecting City, at some point in this awful run of defeats, to snap out of it, find form and absolutely thrash somebody.

Well why not this week?

De Bruyne is a high-risk, high-upside pick in a game that

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