Five-star Derby moves into top six
Five different players were on the scoresheet as Derby County thumped Bristol City to boost their hopes of promotion to the Premier League.
Derby County climbed into the Championship play-off places by dismantling Bristol City in an eye-catching 5-0 win away at Ashton Gate.
The Rams were out of sight at 3-0 up within the first 36 minutes and ended the contest with five different goalscorers, as they jumped from 11th in the table to sixth.
Rhian Brewster got the ball rolling in the 13th minute, getting ahead of his marker to flick Callum Elder's left-wing delivery past Radek Vitek.
It was 2-0 only three minutes later as Ben Brereton Diaz squeezed a shot home from the right side of the area, following some loose play at the back from the Robins, whose hopes were all but over when Bobby Clark rounded off a 36th-minute counter-attack.
Sam Bell saw a goal disallowed for the hosts due to an offside earlier in the move, then Derby pulled further clear via Patrick Agyemang's header in the 66th minute.
Lars-Jorgen Salvesen then put the icing on the cake in the 88th minute, finding the roof of the net from Andreas Weimann's cross to cap a terrible outing for Bristol City, who remain ninth in the congested table.
