DERBY COUNTY FC: FOUR PLAYERS FIT FOR SAINTS CLASH

Derby County should have four of their injured players back in contention for the weekend's clash with Southampton.

Jamie Ward, Kevin Kilbane, Jeff Hendrick and Mark O'Brien are all expected to return to training this week and will be available for selection for Nigel Clough on Saturday.

Kilbane had missed three games in recent weeks due to a back injury and had been forced to withdraw from the Republic of Ireland's Euro 2012 fixtures with Andorra and Armenia this week.

O'Brien, Hendrick and Ward sustained knocks in the Rams clash with Leicester City and were also all forced to pull out of their respective nation's qualifying games.