Expected line-ups

Each side's usual system and players over its recent matches, without the injured: a likely eleven, not the team news.

Bradford City4-3-3 DM Wide

Longman Burkitt Babangida Hopewell Stenner Hughes Drakos Colkett Clark Hailey Norton

Derby County4-2-3-1 DM AM Wide

McKenna Samuel Coakley D'Amico Bowen Isted Jones Huisman Marshall Duman Yves Ekwalla

• Out: Dru Townley (defensive midfielder, injured: hamstring strain, back about 8 January)

Form

#	Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Portsmouth	28	+29	60
2	Bolton Wanderers	26	+27	58
3	Derby County	28	+21	53
4	Preston North End	28	+13	48
5	Norwich City	28	+18	47
6	Oxford United	28	+10	46
7	Barnsley	27	+9	45
8	Boreham Wood	27	+9	45
9	Bradford City	28	+3	45
10	Ipswich Town	26	+2	40
11	Brentford	28	-1	38
12	Hartlepool United	26	+11	37
13	Sunderland	27	+3	36
14	Woking	28	-6	34
15	Crawley Town	27	+8	32
16	Barnet	28	-12	30
17	Southend United	27	-12	29
18	Salford City	28	-9	26
19	Cambridge United	28	-19	26
20	Walsall	27	-22	26
21	Leyton Orient	28	-13	25
22	Sutton United	28	-22	24
23	Tranmere Rovers	28	-24	22
24	Cheltenham Town	28	-23	19

Head to head

• Derby County 1-1 Bradford City Sky Bet League One
• Derby County 1-1 Bradford City Sky Bet League One
• Bradford City 1-0 Derby County Sky Bet League One
• Derby County 1-0 Bradford City Sky Bet League One
• Bradford City 1-1 Derby County Sky Bet League One