Fri 20 Feb - Posted in Breaking News
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Derby County will head to Vicarage Road to face Watford in the Sky Bet Championship on Saturday (3pm kick-off).
The Rams will enter match number 33 of the league season buoyed by a 2-0 triumph over Swansea City at Pride Park Stadium last weekend.
Rhian Brewster netted his third goal in as many matches for John Eustace’s side before Patrick Agyemang headed in his 10th goal of the campaign for Derby.
The Rams, who sat sixth in the table ahead of the gameweek, will be hoping to continue their momentum out on the road when they clash with Watford.
Derby will be backed by a sold out away end in Hertfordshire on Saturday. The Rams were given a total allocation of 2,258 tickets for the match, and these have now completely sold out, with no further seats being made available.
Those fans without a ticket are advised not to make the trip to Vicarage Road, as they will be unable to gain access to the stadium.
Head Coach John Eustace sat down with RamsTV ahead of Derby’s trip to Watford.
Ahead of the trip to Vicarage, midfielder Oscar Fraulo also spoke with RamsTV to review his first two months in black and white after joining the club at the start of the January transfer window.
Watford made their second managerial change of the 2025/26 season when Edward Still stepped into the hot seat on Monday 9th February.
After Tom Cleverley departed following a 14th-place finish last time out, the Hornets began the campaign with former Real Valladolid Head Coach Paulo Pezzolano in charge.
But after three wins and three draws from the first nine games, Watford opted for a change, and Javi Gracia took on the role.
Gracia had previously managed the side in the Premier League and led the club to their first-ever FA Cup Final during his first stint from 2018-2019, and returned to Vicarage Road in the second tier.
After 20 matches in the dugout, the Hornets had won eight and drawn seven times – with Gracia’s side moving between 15th and fourth spot in the league, Watford were back playing in reach of the play-off places.
One of those wins came against Derby as Watford came out 3-2 winners at Pride Park Stadium back in November.
But after a winless run of four games (two draws and two losses), Gracia resigned from his post at the beginning of February.
After a further draw and defeat under the interim lead of former Hornets left-back Charlie Daniels, Still was appointed to the top job.
The brother of former Southampton, Reims and Lens Head Coach Will Still, the Belgian-born British coach began his career on the coaching staff of Belgian Pro League side Sint-Truiden in September 2015.
Still started on the staff of Croatian manager Ivan Leko, whom he then followed to become Assistant Manager at Club Brugge (2017-2019) and then later with Royal Antwerp (2020) and Shanghai Port (2021) in the Chinese Super League.
Still began his own coaching journey when he took up the primary post back in Belgium’s top-tier with Royal Charleroi S.C., where he plied his trade for two seasons before switching to KAS Eupen (2022-2023) and then KV Kortrijk (2023).
Edward Still linked up with brother Will Still for the only time when he spent just under a year as Assistant Manager at Lens in the French Ligue 1.
Before joining Watford, Still spent six months as assistant to Besnik Hasi at RSC Anderlecht, and also oversaw two matches as Caretaker Manager for the Belgian giants a week before arriving in Hertfordshire.
Watford possess potential and youth in their squad, with young winger Nestory Irankunda snapped up from Bayern Munich's youth ranks ahead of the season, Othmane Maamma joining from Montpellier to provide competition to 20-year-old Rocco Vata and experienced former Ram Tom Ince in the attacking areas.
Udinese loanee striker Luca Kjerrumgaard, 23, is the side’s top scorer with eight goals to his name, closely followed by midfielder Imrân Louza with six.
In the winter transfer window, the Hornets added four new names to their ranks. Midfielder Eduardo Bove joined on a free from AS Roma - while centre-backs Saba Goglichidze (Udinese) and Stephen Mfuni (Manchester City), and midfielder Pierre Ekwah (Saint-Étienne) signed up on loan.
Still picked up a point in his first match in charge with a 2-2 draw against Preston North End at Deepdale last weekend.
David Webb will officiate the Championship clash. He has overseen 18 second-tier fixtures so far this term, handing out 44 yellow cards and one red card.
It will be the 26th time Webb has held the whistle in a Rams match, last taking charge during August 2025’s 1-1 draw with Bristol City at Pride Park Stadium.
The assistant referees at The Valley will be Johnathon Bickerdike and Nigel Lugg, while the fourth official duties will be taken by Stephen Parkinson.
Live audio commentary for all of Derby County’s first team matches in the 2025/26 season - both league and cup fixtures - is available to RamsTV Audio subscribers based both in the UK and internationally.
RamsTV's Video Live Streaming and other services for this season can be found here.
Full match reaction will be available on dcfc.co.uk and the Derby County App shortly after full time, with highlights and a full match replay available from midnight.
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