Nottingham forest 2-3 Derby county: The Great come back

By: Clemens | February 5th, 2009

Excuse me for not posting a match preview but got caught up in a mix and only came back when the match was about to start. Who would have guessed it yes as usual I was following the scoreline on the BBC, and in the early stages when the scoreline read 2-0 I switched of my pc and went straight to bed.

Besides being a local derby the match had a few interesting facts, Derby county were going to face Nottingham forest going up the Brian Clough way a street the manager’s father is named after, to face a team the manager got his name by,(he is the second highest all time goal scorer there) and a team his father coached back in the day. And on the city ground non-other than Billy Davis former derby coach that gained promotion is at the helm there…….weird.

The match besides being a rivalry match had an added incentive one which the winner will then go on to host Manchester united besides being a ticket spinner it was a cracker of a match,and a chance at revenge for us, so a win was the only frame of mind going in the match.

The early stages didnt provide any real team domination from either side, but it did provide two early goals against us.
Lewin Nyatanga made a rare start in defence for the Rams, replacing the injured Miles Addison with jay McEveley on left back, the line up looked something like this:

Nottingham forest were without many first team regulars such as Rob Earnshaw, and had plenty of kids on the bench just to fill up space.

A Nottingham Forest corner came in early and derby failed to defend sufficiently and the ball fell graciously to Chris Cohen who had one thing on his mind and a shot in a crowded penalty box gained a deflection and into the net with Bywater having no chance 1-0 down with just 1 minute on the clock.

Tyson got a sweet ball and ran into the derby box and got triped by Bywater resulting in the keeper earning himself a yellow card and a penalty, which Tyson slammed in. 2-0 down and derby county players were looking at themselves.

They needed a response and got it in the 27th minute Robbie Savage gave a sweet pass to the left onto gary teal who crossed it into the box for rob hulse who had a free header 2-1.

Derby county shifted gear and moved forward, but could only continue after the half time period were they got a major inspiration from nigel and the boys took off were they left off -in the front foot of things.-

Derby’s determination was duely paid as our player Rob green in the 60th minute hit a belter that took a deflection and looped in the net the boo boys were stunned and silenced 2-2 now to go for the win.

Derby was by far on top of thing winning every 50-50 and every corner. In the 74th minute the roof went of the city ground as Kris Kommons scored the winner against his former team to send them crashing out of the FA cup, the best match of the night a good team performance a the side is looking good game by game if we take these type’s of performances into the league it will be not be long till we find ourself in a decent league position and hope for promotion next season,

GO RAMS!!