With a cartwheel, back flip and a flex of his muscles, Mo Fuseini sprinted away in celebration. When he received Rhian Brewster’s pass from just behind the halfway line and raced through down the inside-right, the Ghanaian attacker had the weight of his team on his shoulders After 92 minutes of pedestrian, lacklustre football between two of the Championship’s bottom three, a chance to rescue a deserved point at Turf Moor. The lightning fast forward delivered a finish to mat

'When it rains, it pours’ is no longer an adequate way to describe Derby County’s injury crisis: the Moor Farm treatment room is now flooded. Carlton Morris is back, and Rhian Brewster has sat out for the period mandated under the concussion protocol. But the Rams’ injury list is still extensive (now nine players long), with number one Jacob Widell Zetterström the latest addition with an “impact” injury to his knee. “Obviously he’s not in a good way,” John Eustace told Th

Three consecutive defeats for the first time since John Eustace’s first three games in charge; this is the lowest ebb of the head coach’s Rams tenure. His side end a bruising week with two losses. To ten-man West Brom, who had not won at Pride Park in 23 years, and Birmingham City, in what was just the second loss in seven games where Eustace has faced a club he previously managed. That is not to say that the 46-year-old’s job prospects are terminal – he has brought Derby

Derby County got their first point of the season yesterday, with goals from Carlton Morris and Bobby Clark helping them to a 2-2 draw with Cardiff City. While The Rams now have something to build on, much improvement is still needed. In that spirit, here are five things we learned from the match.

Steve Bloomer’s watching and not even gravity can hold us down. Back at Pride Park for the first time since Turki Alalshikh’s takeover collapsed, David Clowes is determined not to let that do so either. A blame game surrounding what Derby County’s reluctant hero called “the ultimate bombshell” which left the club “stunned” and “dazed” will not happen – “it serves no purpose”. His message in the first programme of the season: it is business as usual, he will back “ultimate p

The new season is upon us, and before the Championship campaign has even begun, there has already been a huge story at Derby County. Four years on from David Clowes’ reluctant act of heroism, he looked set to and over a large stake of the club to Lion Sport. But unpredictable as ever, Saudi government official and boxing supremo Turki Alalshikh has now pulled out. It is clearly a blow to preparations for John Eustace and co., but now David Clowes and his team must leap into

Friendly, what friendly? After a quick glance at the surroundings, it was easy to see why Bundesliga outfit SC Freiburg have adopted the Austrian town of Imst as their pre-season base for two decades. But neither they, nor Derby were there to relax. Among the idyllic coniferous trees and mountains, there was more than a fitting amount of needle. As Julian Schuster’s side took to the pitch for the first time since their Europa League final defeat in May, you wondered if Cr

How do you sum up the past nine months in one article? It’s a near impossible job. So instead, let me take you back to the seven games, over five weeks (what’s a few days for the purpose of a headline?) that encompassed the lowest point, some of the highest points, and key themes of the men’s first team’s campaign. We must start, I’m afraid, at the Kassam Stadium. Derby County’s worst performance of the season. ‘Outplayed. Outbattled. Outclassed,’ I wrote, in my bluntest as

Southampton already know they’re off to Wembley, but Derby’s hopes of playing under the famous arch this season now hang by a thread. John Eustace has been keen to keep things in perspective, talking about the progress of his side – recently with a view to next season. But after defeat at St Mary’s, his frustration was palpable. “It’s too easy from the free kick, organisation [was] not good enough and we’ve got to improve on that,” he told BBC Radio Derby . Eustace was of

The flock are ¡Olé!-ing in the Easter sunshine. In cruise control, Derby are taunting Stoke as they look to see out a fifth-straight win at Pride Park for the first time since October 2019. And then the goal that Carlton Morris had so deserved. At last, an 11 th of the season, nearly four months since he previously found the net . Unlike his goal in Staffordshire , this was not just a neat bit of individual quality, but a sublime team move. Starting with Morris flicking

Whether it was the tussle between Adam Forshaw and Sam Szmodics, or when Rams captain Lewis Travis “let himself down” with what John Eustace called a “ridiculous” yellow card, their reacquaintance with Blackburn was inevitably fiery. For Ben Brereton Díaz, Dion Sanderson, Sam Szmodics and chiefly former Rovers skipper Travis, it was akin to welcoming your dysfunctional, now-disowned family to your new abode. Even with some their favourite sons back in their corner, the same

As the full-time whistle sounded at Vicarage Road, John Eustace clearly felt the need for some brutal honesty. “We let ourselves down,” he told RamsTV , “We were too slow with the ball. Physically, we got beat up.” This is about as harsh as we’ve heard John Eustace in his 50 games in charge, who even rejected opportunities to give a more upbeat slant. On BBC Radio Derby , he instead reaffirmed his view that Derby “weren’t competitive enough” over the 90 minutes. So, in

Derby County Head Coach John Eustace marked a year at the helm with a Valentine's Day victory over Swansea City which had all the hallmarks of the side he has developed. With defensive resilience, swift transitions, and deadly dead balls, this was a fitting way to mark a year which has seen him transform The Rams' fortunes.

John Eustace with the nine students, including myself, who put questions to him. Photo: University of Derby. Even during a week that has featured the quagmire of deadline day, deal sheets and the usual pre-match preparations, John Eustace has still found time to visit the University of Derby for his pre-match press conference. While it comes during what must be one of the busier weeks of the season, at least the Derby head coach will no longer have to bat away transfer rumour

If anyone needed evidence of why John Eustace’s “we don’t get too high or too low” mantra matters, here it was.

Forget jelly and ice cream, forget the cake, Blackburn Rovers had more corners than a Müller factory at their 150th 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 shak

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

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

Match report and analysis with quotes from John Eustace following Derby County's 1-0 win over Queens Park Rangers in the EFL Championship.

In his programme notes, John Eustace wrote: “Nathan Jones’ sides are notoriously difficult to play against.” Isn’t that the truth? ...