Tensions boiled over between Nottingham Forest and Derby players on Saturday after Ravel Morrison was shown a 97th minute red card.
Forest earned a 2-1 victory over Derby on Saturday in the Championship, after going 2-0 up in the 84th minute. Lewis Grabban put the hosts into the lead shortly after half time, before Brennan Johnson scored Nottingham's second of the match.
A HUGE goal for Lewis Grabban 🎯#NFFC take the lead in the East Midlands derby!👏 pic.twitter.com/2ubfrqBlLY
— Sky Sports Football (@SkyFootball) January 22, 2022
What a goal from Brennan Johnson 👏#NFFC take a 2-0 lead ✅✅ pic.twitter.com/anNc5btRPi
— Sky Sports Football (@SkyFootball) January 22, 2022
Tom Lawrence put Derby on the board just minutes before full time with a penalty. However discipline ultimately cost Derby as Morrison was red carded in the 97th minute for a dangerous challenge, which all but secured the victory for Forest.
🗣 "Derby County are still alive."
Tom Lawrence finds the bottom corner for #DCFC 🎯 pic.twitter.com/ais3pmaxtq— Sky Sports Football (@SkyFootball) January 22, 2022
However, the action did not end at full time as the tempers between the two sides boiled over after the final whistle.
FULL TIME ⏰
The East Midlands derby finishes with a bit of a scrap on the pitch 😬#NFFC 2-1 #DCFC pic.twitter.com/cNqwFOboyj— Sky Sports Football (@SkyFootball) January 22, 2022
The match was full of niggle from start to finish, with the two aggressive challenges at the end of the match being the tip of the iceberg.
Philip Zinckernagel of Forest and Nathan Byrne had a few words with one another after full time which quickly descended into a full-on scrap between the sides on the pitch.
This is just the eighth loss of the season for Wayne Rooney's Derby County side, however, after their financial breaches earlier in the season, they are still just one place above the bottom of the table in the Championship.
In spite of this, Rooney has still been heavily linked to the vacant manager job at Everton. Duncan Ferguson is currently standing in as placeholder manager at Goodison Park following the axing of Rafael Benitez this past week.
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