However, it now time to get to the main event o0f the week! The third East Midlands Derby of the year! Following two losses 3-0 in the League Cup and 1-0 in the league, Philip Cocu and the team will be eager to stop our red rivals from completing a hat trick of victories in one season.
To be fair the league match at The City Ground was a tight affair that could have gone either way and it was a defensive error that gifted them a winning goal.
Full credit to the new regime acrid the A52 they have turned the club around and seem to have at long last found a good manager in Sabri Lamouchi.
I would Arte their current team as the best they have had in twenty years. We will have to be on the top of our game!
Key players to watch out for are Ben Watson in midfield who we will have to keep quiet, Joe Lolley who has been a bargain signing and of course Lewis Grabban. Grabban scores a lot of goals from close range, but the point is that he is there to knock them in.
They are strong in taking chances, very good on the counter attack and also at set pieces. Their only real weaknesses are they are often caught offside and they aren't the most dominant in the air.
This is a game where studying footage of their past games will be vital for Cocu and ensuring he sets up to exploit any weaknesses he can spot!
I would probably go with a similar line up to the game at Preston. Hopefully we can see a similar sort of performance!
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