Preview: Bristol City vs. Derby County - prediction, team news, lineups

Bristol City volition look to widen their unbeaten tally to 4 matches erstwhile they invited Derby County to Ashton Gate for Saturday's Championship contest.

Meanwhile, the Rams volition beryllium hopeless to nutrient a affirmative effect aft losing back-to-back games against Leeds United and Sheffield Wednesday.

Match preview

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Bristol City are sitting successful 10th place and 5 points adrift of the playoffs aft winning eight, drafting 10 and losing 7 of their 25 league games this season.

The Robins precocious bounced backmost from a 2-0 distant decision against West Bromwich Albion to grounds successive location wins implicit Luton Town and Portsmouth without conceding.

They looked acceptable to assertion different triumph successful Wednesday's distant clash against basement broadside Plymouth Argyle, taking the pb connected 2 occasions acknowledgment to efforts from Anis Mehmeti and Jason Knight.

Unfortunately for the Robins, they were denied each 3 points by Julio Pleguezuelo's stoppage-time equaliser, leaving them without a triumph successful 5 consecutive distant games.

Having struggled connected the road, Bristol City volition beryllium looking guardant to returning to Ashton Gate, wherever they person dropped conscionable 2 points successful their past 4 location matches.

They volition beryllium assured astir extending their four-game unbeaten location run, having won each of their erstwhile 3 location matches against Derby.

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The Rams caput into the play connected the backmost of an underwhelming tally of form, with their past 4 matches producing 1 triumph and 3 defeats.

Derby bounced backmost from a constrictive nonaccomplishment against Luton Town with a 2-1 location triumph against West Brom, earlier they fell to a 1-0 decision successful their location gathering with promotion-chasing Leeds United.

Paul Warne's broadside experienced different disappointing outing connected New Year's Day, with goals from Jerry Yates and Ebou Adams proving fruitless successful a 4-2 distant decision against Sheffield Wednesday.

As a effect of that loss, Derby dropped 1 presumption to 17th spot successful the Championship table, leaving them 5 points supra the bottommost three.

The decision astatine Hillsborough besides extended Derby's winless distant tally to 5 matches (D2, L3), suggesting they whitethorn person their enactment chopped retired to assertion their archetypal distant triumph implicit Bristol City since April 2019.

The Rams volition astatine slightest instrumentality assurance from August's reverse fixture, wherever goals from Kenzo Goudmijn, Kayden Jackson and David Ozoh secured a 3-0 triumph astatine Pride Park.

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Team News

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Bristol City brag Liam Manning volition beryllium incapable to telephone upon midfielder Joe Williams and guardant Sinclair Armstrong owed to injury.

Mark Sykes and Kal Naismith are some closing successful connected a instrumentality to action, but it remains to beryllium seen whether Saturday's lucifer volition travel excessively soon for the pair.

Left-back Cameron Pring volition person to beryllium assessed by the club's aesculapian unit aft being forced disconnected successful the archetypal fractional against Plymouth.

As for the visitors, they volition person to marque a telephone connected Corey Blackett-Taylor and Joe Ward's availability aft the brace sat retired the decision to Sheffield Wednesday with groin and genu issues respectively.

Midfielder Ben Osborn is successful a contention against clip to beryllium his fittingness up of Saturday's travel to Ashton Gate.

However, the Rams volition decidedly beryllium without the services of Eiran Cashin, David Ozoh and Ryan Nyambe owed to injury.

Bristol City imaginable starting lineup:
O'Leary; Vyner, Dickie, McNally; McCorie, Knight, Bird, Roberts; Twine, Mehmeti; Bell

We say: Bristol City 2-0 Derby County

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