Derby beat Forest Green in FA Cup 3rd Round

January 3, 2009 | Fixtures

Forest Green Rovers 3 Derby County 4

With Derby County making excellent progress in the less popular Carling Cup - facing Manchester United in the semi-final later in the week - any success in the FA Cup was just the icing on the cake. Nonetheless, facing non-league Forest Green shouldn’t have been a huge problem.

Unfortunately, things didn’t start out as well as expected.

Forest Green’s Jonathan Smith and Alex Lawless managed to give the home side a two goal lead within 20 minutes, indicating early signs of a shock win for the underdogs.

It took until the 40th minute for Derby to retaliate when Rob Hulse headed in Kris Commons‘ cross as well as a leveller from Martin Albrechtsen before the half time whistle.

The second half was just as exciting, if a little tense.

Forest Green took another lead when Paul Stonehurst took them ahead again in the 72nd minute but, thankfully, it only four minutes for Derby’s Paul Green to equalise again.

It wasn’t until the dying 87th minute when Steve Davies was rewarded a penalty which he quickly converted past Darren Jones, taking Derby into the 4th round of the FA Cup.

Let’s hope Derby don’t play such a stressful game against Man Utd in the week - this could kill some Derby fans!

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Preston continue success with win over Derby

December 26, 2008 | Fixtures

Preston NE 2 Derby County 0

Beating Watford last weekend was a great boost to Derby after a string of successive draws home and away (with the occasional loss thrown in the mix as well). Travelling to Preston was bound to be a difficult game for us but Derby weren’t giving up that easily.

The first half was quite a tense battle. Derby showed good determination although there were few opportunities to up the ante from away goals. Preston were also a strong side who looked extremely comfortable.

It was in the 30th minute when Sean St Ledger knocked in a goal for Preston, giving the home side the lead.

Plenty of opportunities arose for Derby with shots from Paul Green, Kris Commons and Rob Hulse challenging Preston keeper Andy Lonergan but nothing was strong enough to beat him.

Jon Parkin was the man to hit the nail in the coffin for Derby after a smash from 18 yards gave the home side two goals over Derby and, in the end, all three points.

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Derby do the double over Norwich

October 28, 2008 | Fixtures

Derby 3 Norwich City 1

When Derby travelled across the Norfolk Broads to play Norwich last month, they managed to pull it out the bag and beat the home side 2-1. So the return leg was bound to be interesting with Norwich playing so well and Derby only managing a 1-1 draw at Coventry at the weekend.

Paul Green opened the preceedings with a relatively poor effort but Rob Hulse followed up connecting with yet another fine cross from Kris Commons, whacking the ball in the back of the net to take Derby two up in the first half.

Another effort from Hulse was denied by the bar after the break but it was John Kennedy who threw Norwich a life line when he managed to head in a cross from Sammy Clingan to take the score to 2-1.

This was enough to give Norwich some confidence and it showed throughout the second half, especially when Leroy Lita knocked it wide, almost putting the scores level.

But it was Przemyslaw Kazmierczak who finished the game off with a fine goal to give Derby their fifth win of the season.

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Paul Green extend Derby’s unbeaten run against Plymouth at Pride Park

October 18, 2008 | Fixtures

Derby 2 Plymouth 1

After the break for international World Cup qualifiers, Derby were refreshed, full of determination to continue their unbeaten run of six games to further their campaign for the 2008/9 season.

The first game of many over the next five weeks was at home against Plymouth Argyle, who were also determined to maintain their positive start to the season.

Unfortunately, it were the travellers who hit the back of the net first through Paul Gallacher’s 25 yard strike in the 8th minute.

The scoreline didn’t change for the majority of the first half until the dying minutes when Kris Commons‘ cut-back for Rob Hulse to connect from 12 yards, bring the Rams back into the game.

It wasn’t long after the break before Derby managed to up the ante after Paul Green’s shot was tipped on to the post by Plymouth’s Roman Larrieu before it trickled over the line.

This is the seventh game of Derby’s unbeaten run which just goes to show the potential in the team. Let’s hope similar results are possible in our future games against Blackpool, Coventry, Norwich and the big clash against Nottingham Forest on Sunday 2nd (which will be airing on Sky Sports for those wanting to watch the game).

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Steve Davies extends Derby’s unbeaten run to 5 games

September 30, 2008 | Fixtures

Derby 1 Birmingham 1

Derby have been on a good run over the last four games, mostly drawing but at least with the teams who are heading up the Championship this season.

So with BBC Radio Five Live Extra covering the game when there were numerous Champions League qualifiers simultaneously being played, the media obviously thought it would be an interesting result from two relegatees from the Premiership last season.

Unfortunately, activity was rather limited.

Derby keeper Roy Carroll saved a strong effort from Mehdi Nafti in the first minute, denying the travellers an early lead.

But in the 26th minute, Birmingham’s Quincy Owusu-Abeyie fired in a worthy shot to take the Blues into a lead for the majority of the game.

Miles Addison and Paul Green were the only efforts for Derby that looked to take the home side level but the deadlock was finally broken in the 87th minute when Steve Davies fired home a late goal to give Derby their 5th game unbeaten.

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Two goals at Barnsley leave Derby bottom of table

September 2, 2008 | Fixtures

Barnsley 2 - Derby 0

Derby travelled to South Yorkshire feeling confident after progressing to the third round of the Carling League Cup earlier in the week but an adamant Barnsley team stole all three points from a game that both teams were despereate to win.

The Rams put on a tough fight, showing power and devotion throughout, challenging the homeside with plenty of opportunities from Paul Green, Kris Commons, Przemyslaw Kazmierczak and Tito Villa.

It was in the last twenty minutes of the game when Iain Hume slammed in a top-notch 20-yard effort and Stephen Foster converted a corner in the 81st minute to take the home side into a comfortable and flattering 2-0 lead.

Derby have now gone 39 games without a win, a frankly embarrassing record in the football league, so its probably a blessing in disguise we now have a few weeks break during the international qualifiers for World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

No doubt a gutted Paul Jewell will be pushing our boys through an intensive training session for our next game against Sheffield United.

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