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Yp 8;I@8E B8ALD98 and try to keep smiling. With the past I have had, also there are worst things in life. The most important thing for me is my family and as long as they are healthy.

“For me football is after. I’m not saying I don’t care about football, I care a lot. It’s my job, it’s my life. But I just try to wake up everyday like this and keep saying to myself if I keep working hard, then good things will come and that’s how it is.” Jurgen Locadia put Brighton 2-0 ahead before Ashley Cole’s late consolatio­n for Derby – his first-ever FA Cup goal.

Rams boss Frank Lampard believes their cup exit has given them “clarity”.

Seventh in the table, he said: “We mustn’t forget our bread and butter is the Championsh­ip and we are in a position now where we are fighting with a lot of teams for those top spots and the play-off spots.

“What this does is give us a real clarity, a real focus on the 15 league games we have left.” BRIGHTON (4-5-1): Button

6; Bruno 7, Duffy 7, Burn 7, Bernardo

7; Knockaert 7, BISSOUMA 8 (Gross

85), Stephens 7, Kayal 6, Jahanbakhs­h

6; Locadia 7 (Gyokeres 80). Subs: Sanchez, Bong, Montoya, Molumby, Ostigard.

UP NEXT: Leicester (a), Premier League, February 26.

DERBY (4-1-4-1): Roos 6; Bogle

7, Keogh 6, Tomori 6, Malone 6 (Cole 46, 6); Huddleston­e 6; Waghorn

6, BRYSON 7, Wilson 6, Holmes

5 (Marriott 46, 6); Nugent 5 (Jozefzoon

72). Subs: Ravas, Wisdom, Johnson, Evans.

UP NEXT: Millwall (h), Championsh­ip, Wednesday.

Referee: David Coote 6.

YOUR TURN: Who opened the scoring for Albion when they last hosted Derby, a 3-0 Championsh­ip win for Brighton in March 2017?

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