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Forest latest: Glasner convinced fortunes will change despite third successive defeat
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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
Derby County boss John Eustace:
“I think we deserved at least a point, the way we started the game was not great, and going a goal down was poor.
“We grew into the first half, we scored a great goal and felt very comfortable, I thought we were very strong.
“Then we started the second half like we started the first half. We wanted to go out there, be on
Wrexham were without their two top scorers, Kieffer Moore and Josh Windass, because of injury, but they needed just 11 minutes to take the lead in Lancashire.
Matty James’ lofted ball upfield floated over Sean McLoughlin and into the path of Smith – making just his second league start of the campaign – whose left-footed strike beat Pears at the near post.
Just minutes later, McLoughlin produced a crucial last-ditch
Brentford heaped further misery on Premier League champions Liverpool with a fully deserved victory at Gtech Community Stadium.
An emphatic midweek triumph at Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League ended a sequence of four successive defeats in all competitions for the Reds – but it proved to be a false dawn as the weaknesses that have plagued Arne Slot’s side this season surfaced yet again.
Michael Kayode’s lethal long throw
