in hand. It was the first time Rotherham has completed a league double over the Rams since the 1965/66 season. The defeat was compounded by the fact that Krystian Bielik, who had suffered injury in the 1–0 win over Bristol City, would miss the remainder of the season due to an anterior cruciate ligament; the second time he has suffered the injury in his spell at the club. A second postponement of the month followed when 6 February trip to Barnsley was called off due to a waterlogged pitch and Derby dropped back into the bottom three on goal difference following a win for Rotherham on 6 February and then Sheffield Wednesday the following Tuesday. However, the following Saturday saw Rotherham and Sheffield Wednesday in the reverse position, as frozen pitches led to postponements of both club's home matches, allowing Derby to leapfrog both of them (as well as Coventry City) in the table after a 2–1 home win over Middlesbrough; Lee Gregory scoring one and creating the other on his home debut. Three days later Derby reached a season high of 16th in the table when Andre Wisdom scored his first career league goal in the 94th-minute to secure a 2–1 win away at bottom of the table Wycombe Wanderers in Derby's first every visit to Adams Park. A Friday night 2–1 defeat away to 3rd-placed Watford was followed by a 2–0 victory at home to fellow strugglers Huddersfield Town with George Edmundson's first goal for the club giving Derby the lead before Martyn Waghorn, who came on for Edmundson at half-time, became the first substitute of the season to score for the Rams to make the game safe in the second half. Ahead of the second East Midlands Derby of the season, Wayne Rooney found himself under the spotlight as national media attention centred on arguably the highest profile match of his nascent management career. Having accrued 31 points from a possible 54 in his 18 days in sole charge, and taking the club from bottom of the table and six points from safety to 18th in the league and eight points clear of the relegation zone, and being feted by the press for "convincing the doubters" Rooney even found himself as 25/1 outsider for the Celtic job following the resignation of Neil Lennon. In the event of the match, Colin Kazim-Richards celebrated signing a one-year extension to