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Derby County head coach John Eustace expects “more growth” from his side as they try to end the season on a high and secure a play-off spot.
The Rams are eighth in the Championship, three points off the play-offs, but face a testing Easter weekend with a trip to league leaders Coventry on Friday (20:00 BST) before they host Stoke City on Monday.
Eustace says he would have snapped your
Former Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United defender Leigh Bromby has signed a permanent contract to become Derby County’s talent acquisition lead.
The 45-year-old takes the new role after a spell as the club’s interim recruitment lead as the Rams look to build their sporting intelligence department.
His duties will include working alongside boss John Eustace to identify suitable talent, overseeing transfer deals and implementing development plans for players such as
Derby County have triggered an extension clause in Joe Ward’s contract to keep the versatile wing-back at the Championship club until the summer of 2027.
The 30-year-old was into the final three months of his initial three-year deal that he signed when arriving at the club in 2023 from Peterborough United.
He helped the Rams to promotion from League One in his first season at Pride Park and has made
I remember it as if it was yesterday.
The 12th of March 2011. Derby County vs Swansea City. A game that, on paper, most would deem your average Championship fixture.
However, for seven-year-old me, it was about to become my fondest memory supporting the Rams.
Weeks earlier, I’d come home from school to my mum, dad, and brother surrounding the kitchen table, pushing a pretty formal looking letter in my
Striker Josh Coburn scored the winner for Millwall as they beat Derby County at The Den to strengthen their automatic promotion bid.
Coburn bagged his sixth goal in 13 games to lift the third-placed Lions to just a point behind second-placed Middlesbrough in the Championship.
Derby wasted chances to earn at least a point and, although they remain seventh, they have lost four of their past seven league games.
The
Derby County cannot relax and treat the remaining 10 Championship games as a free hit, according to boss John Eustace.
Having avoided relegation on the final day of last season, the Rams go into Tuesday’s game at Millwall (19:45 GMT) in seventh place, three points short of the play-offs.
Expectations have dramatically shifted from 2025 as the Rams are firmly in the play-off race and outside of matches against Millwall,
Wednesday had started brightly with Svante Ingelsson looking lively down the left, but an excellent first-time pass from the recalled Rhian Brewster put Brereton-Diaz through for Derby’s opener as the Chile striker finished well from the edge of the box.
The same two combined three minutes later as a stretching unmarked Brereton-Diaz put a low cross over the bar from eight yards.
But three minutes later the Owls were level
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
Watford ended a run of seven Championship games without victory by beating play-off rivals Derby County.
Luca Kjerrumgaard gave the hosts an early lead at Vicarage Road, reacting quickest to convert from close range after Othmane Maamma’s low cross caused confusion in the Rams box.
Derby enjoyed decent spells of possession but failed to register a shot on target before the break.
Watford had chances to extend their lead after
Derby head coach John Eustace:
“First half the gaps between front and back were too big which was disappointing. Every time we won the ball back, we lost a duel or were a little slower in possession which gave them the emphasis of the game.
“But they didn’t rally cause us any issues. Second half we changed one or two things and our shape was much more connected.
“We spoke