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Following their relegation from the Championship last season, Derby County set out to rebuild on and off the pitch this term and push to climb back into England’s second tier, and they have experienced a relatively steady start, collecting eight victories and 29 points from their opening 18 league outings.
Paul Warne51 was brought in to replace Liam Rosenior and lead the side from late September, and after a slow start to life at Pride Park, he is starting to see improvement from his new side, with the Rams now unbeaten in five matches in the third tier, firstly putting up draws with Exeter City and Morecambe either side of a 4-2 beating of Bristol Rovers.
The Derbyshire outfit would then return to winning ways away at MK Dons, as Haydon Roberts, James Collins and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing all got on the scoresheet in a 3-1 victory, before they made it back-to-back triumphs with a 5-0 thrashing of Torquay United in their FA Cup first-round replay and earned a creditable point from a goalless draw away at Portsmouth in their latest League One outing.
Warne’s side now come into Saturday’s game on the back of another FA Cup win last weekend, as they travelled to Newport County and booked their place in the third round with a 2-1 triumph thanks to David McGoldrick‘s 88th-minute winner, after Louie Sibley had drawn them level early in the second half.
Now turning their attention back to their fight to get into the playoff places, having cut the gap to sixth place to a single point, the Rams will look to take an impressive scalp at the weekend against one of the league’s dominant sides and put a ninth three-point haul of the season on the board.
That will be no easy task, though, as Sheffield Wednesday arrive in formidable form, with their only defeat in the last 11 games in all competitions coming in a penalty shootout in the EFL Cup away at Premier League outfit Southampton.
In that spell, Darren Moore‘s side have put a seven-game unbeaten run together in England’s third tier, including three straight three-point hauls heading into Saturday’s trip, having firstly returned to winning ways with a 4-2 beating of Burton Albion.
Following an FA Cup triumph over Morecambe and that narrow defeat to Southampton, after a 1-1 draw away from home in normal time, the Owls put three more points on the board with a 1-0 win away at Accrington Stanley, and they won by the same scoreline in their last league game at home to Shrewsbury Town in mid-November, as Mark McGuinness netted the only goal of the game in the first half
Scunthorpe’s Rob Apter is a doubt for this weekend after missing his team’s defeat at Wealdstone last weekend, an injury issue which saw Joe Nuttall included in the starting XI.
Nuttall is the Irons’ top scorer so far this campaign and will need to make good use of the limited amount of chances he will get against promotion-chasing Notts County to give his side any hope of earning a shock victory.
Notts County supporters spotted defender Connell Rawlinson visiting hospital in the week, with boss Williams confirming the player had suffered a calf knock in a training-ground collision, meaning it is highly doubtful the 31-year-old will be part of the action this weekend.
Star man Langstaff is set to lead the line again for County, with the striker looking to add to his 18 league goals against a Scunthorpe side who have been conceding plenty of goals recently.
Scunthorpe United possible starting lineup:
Dewhurst; O’Malley, Boyce, Beestin; Nuttall, Carver, Lavery, Taft, Butterfield; Gallimore, Pugh
Notts County possible starting lineup:
Slocombe; Chicksen, Baldwin, Cameron, Adebayo-Rowling; Palmer, Austin, Scott, Brindley; Langstaff, Rodrigues
In the week that the Bulls lost their most famous ex-player, FA Cup legend Ronnie Radford – 50 years on from his iconic match-winning goal against Newcastle – it briefly looked like there might be some left-over magic in the air.
For seven minutes, the sixth-tier outfit led after Miles Storey’s goal against the team 81 places above them in the English football pyramid in League One.
But Pompey hit back, with Reeco Hackett quickly levelling before second-half goals from Colby Bishop and substitute Joe Pigott earned the twice FA Cup winners a safe passage to Monday’s second-round draw
Making their first trip to Edgar Street in 38 years, Pompey were given a good first-half workout by the fired-up hosts.
Although home keeper Dale Eve had to keep out Hackett’s left-foot curler bound for the top corner, Pompey had a first real scare when Bishop’s challenge on Hereford’s former million-pound marksman Tyrone Barnett in the visitors’ penalty box went unpunished.
And there was worse to follow for Pompey when Hereford took the lead on 26 minutes.
Sean Raggett played a loose pass inside to Hackett, who was immediately closed down and robbed by Storey – and the former Pompey player raced away down the inside-left channel before keeping his cool to nutmeg on-loan West Bromwich Albion keeper Josh Griffiths.
Fittingly, just two days on from the announcement of the sad passing of Hereford’s legendary number 11, their modern-day number 11 emulated his predecessor.
There had already been a minute’s silence, which cascaded into applause from the whole ground, followed by chants of ‘there’s only one Ronnie Radford’ when the clock showed 11 minutes.
But this goal was destined not to prove so famous.
Ronan Curtis headed down Connor Ogilvie’s far-post cross for Hackett to bring down and fire home coolly from six yards.
On 63 minutes, Portsmouth took the lead when, from Clark Robertson’s in-swinging right-foot corner from the left, Bishop timed his run to get there first and head his 10th goal of the season.
And Pigott wrapped up victory 10 minutes from time when, again from a corner by skipper Robertson, Bishop won the initial header before Pigott reacted sharpest to sidefoot home
Hereford FC boss Josh Gowling told BBC Sport:
“I’m really disappointed because we should have got something out of it, but goals change games – and the quality of the delivery they have changes games.
“In the first half we were excellent. We were in the ascendancy and they looked nervous.
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“We were on top and looked like we could go on and win, but we’ve made one mistake, it has cost us a goal and that’s the difference in levels.
“We’ve given them a leg up and a little lift and you could see their performance raise after that.”
Portsmouth boss Danny Cowley told BBC Sport:
“I was so sad to hear the news about Ronnie Radford. He was such an iconic figure and he had that iconic moment. For a lot of people my age, his famous goal was their first memories of the FA Cup. But what a brilliant night to celebrate his life