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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
Before Morris limped off the pitch against Watford, the prolific forward had scored 10 goals in 15 appearances since joining from Luton Town in the summer.
His goals accounted for exactly half of all those scored by Derby in the Championship before he was injured.
His team-mates, however, have since managed four goals in two games – which is collectively more than they had scored in the five-game winning run
Toy snakes were waved in the direction of Eustace by Blackburn fans when he first came up against his former side at Derby’s Pride Park, just weeks after he surprisingly swapped a promotion push for the fight to avoid the drop.
He oversaw what was his first win as Rams boss in that game in early March, while this victory extends Derby’s fine run and has them up to ninth
It also took them eight points clear of United, whose second successive loss – after managing back-to-back wins in mid-October – has them languishing third-from-bottom after 13 games.
Morris compounded what has been a miserable start to the Blades’ season breaking the first-half deadlock with a glancing header from a Joe Ward corner.
Ben Brereton Diaz went close to doubling the visitors’ advantage against the side he featured on loan
Carlton Morris marked his first game as Derby captain by scoring the only goal to make it two wins in four days at Pride Park for the Rams.
Morris was handed the captain’s armband by boss John Eustace because skipper Lewis Travers and No 2 Ebou Adams were unavailable and the striker celebrated in style.
Morris scored from close range to take his tally for Derby to five since his
Morris said it was crucial the squad and supporters stick together over the coming weeks.
“We still feel their support and that’s huge for us, huge for the dressing room. The last thing we want is for it to turn toxic and start blaming each other. That’s just where you don’t want to be,” he said.
“What we need to remember as well is that teams at Championship level are
Morris hopes derby win will be ‘momentum shifter’
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Liverpool have only won two of their past 11 Premier League games at Goodison Park, but can they get the better of neighbours Everton when they go back there on Wednesday?
“Everton got a massive three points on Sunday, which takes the pressure off them a little bit,” said BBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton. “Now they will be absolutely desperate to derail Liverpool’s title bid.”
Sutton is making predictions
After every Premier League weekend, BBC football pundit Garth Crooks gathers his thoughts and gives you his Team of the Week.
Here are this week’s choices and, as ever, Garth also discusses the game’s big talking points in the Crooks of the Matter.
Jordan Pickford (Everton): The Premier League is entering into a period of games where if you are a player, or football fan for that matter, incapable of
