Derby County 1 Waghorn Preston North End 0
Derby County line-up: Roos, Forsyth, Shinnie (Evans, 15), Bielik, Lawrence, Martin (Wisdom, 78), Bennett (Waghorn, 28), Holmes, Lowe, Davies, Bogle. Subs not used: Hamer, Paterson, Dowell, Marriott.
PNE line-up: Rudd, Fisher (Gallagher, 46), Pearson, Davies (Storey, 73), Browne, Johnson, Rafferty, Stockley (Bodin, 46), Bauer, Maguire, Barkhuizen. Subs not used: Ripley, Ledson, Nugent, Potts.
Attendance: 27,417 (2,435 PNE fans)
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This is our fifth season back in the Championship and our ninth meeting with the Rams in that time we have not beaten them and barely scored against them, in truth we barely threatened to win today.
Johnson and Pearson both returned to the line up after suspension and injury respectively. We started slowly and found Lawrence extremely difficult to deal with as he terrorised our back line every time he got the ball. He fired an early effort wide before we got a free kick on the edge of the box from the resulting scramble Bauer fired over.
Apart from a Stockley effort which went wide it was Lawrence who ran the first half, after a mazy run the ball ran to Holmes whose shot hit the bar and went skywards at a rate of knots, a coupe of early injuries to Rams players didn't stop them, Lawrence denied by Rudd as was substitute Waghorn who played on when the entire North End defence waited for off side. Did not matter shortly afterwards Waghorn seized on a chance from a corner and 1 up were the home side and deservedly as well.
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North End were second best and sadly seemed to have only one tactic long ball to Stockley did not work. Half time came Fisher and Stockley off Gallagher and Bodin on, Fisher had had a torrid first half possibly lucky not to get a red when he got a yellow.. Substitutions worked we passed the ball about and looked better and had the ball in the net ruled out though think it was offside.
Although better Derby had chances Waghorn should have done better when one on one with Rudd and both Lawrence and Bogle fired efforts just wide.
The Rams defended their lead and tried to play on the break, could not find a way through although looked dangerous at set plays, pity really we never put their keeper who looked a bit suspect under pressure. No complaints about the result better side won o the day onto Hull on Wednesday night.
Derby manager Phillip Cocu:
"I think it was one of the best 45 minutes I have seen from the team. It was a great combination of tactical execution of the game plan and doing what we wanted to do.
"It's what you want to see and we could have made it a bit easier for ourselves and scored an extra goal, but the team recognises this more and more.
"You don't force it and go forward with everybody but just try to keep your organisation and if you don't score a second one you make sure you have a clean sheet, so this is a positive development because it would have been a shame if we had drawn after playing 60 minutes of great football."
Preston boss Alex Neil:
"I thought first half we lost too many headers, too many battles all over the pitch and Derby were faster, sharper and better than us.
"Like I said to them at half-time, it's quite easy for me to come in and start shouting and bawling and tell everybody how poor they've been but nothing is won at the moment and we are going to lose games along the way.
"The players understand and are frustrated for themselves, but at the end of the day, we win and lose as a team. Sometimes I'll get it wrong, sometimes they won't perform and that's part and parcel of it."
Derby County line-up: Roos, Forsyth, Shinnie (Evans, 15), Bielik, Lawrence, Martin (Wisdom, 78), Bennett (Waghorn, 28), Holmes, Lowe, Davies, Bogle. Subs not used: Hamer, Paterson, Dowell, Marriott.
PNE line-up: Rudd, Fisher (Gallagher, 46), Pearson, Davies (Storey, 73), Browne, Johnson, Rafferty, Stockley (Bodin, 46), Bauer, Maguire, Barkhuizen. Subs not used: Ripley, Ledson, Nugent, Potts.
Attendance: 27,417 (2,435 PNE fans)
This is our fifth season back in the Championship and our ninth meeting with the Rams in that time we have not beaten them and barely scored against them, in truth we barely threatened to win today.
Johnson and Pearson both returned to the line up after suspension and injury respectively. We started slowly and found Lawrence extremely difficult to deal with as he terrorised our back line every time he got the ball. He fired an early effort wide before we got a free kick on the edge of the box from the resulting scramble Bauer fired over.
Apart from a Stockley effort which went wide it was Lawrence who ran the first half, after a mazy run the ball ran to Holmes whose shot hit the bar and went skywards at a rate of knots, a coupe of early injuries to Rams players didn't stop them, Lawrence denied by Rudd as was substitute Waghorn who played on when the entire North End defence waited for off side. Did not matter shortly afterwards Waghorn seized on a chance from a corner and 1 up were the home side and deservedly as well.
North End were second best and sadly seemed to have only one tactic long ball to Stockley did not work. Half time came Fisher and Stockley off Gallagher and Bodin on, Fisher had had a torrid first half possibly lucky not to get a red when he got a yellow.. Substitutions worked we passed the ball about and looked better and had the ball in the net ruled out though think it was offside.
Although better Derby had chances Waghorn should have done better when one on one with Rudd and both Lawrence and Bogle fired efforts just wide.
The Rams defended their lead and tried to play on the break, could not find a way through although looked dangerous at set plays, pity really we never put their keeper who looked a bit suspect under pressure. No complaints about the result better side won o the day onto Hull on Wednesday night.
Derby manager Phillip Cocu:
"I think it was one of the best 45 minutes I have seen from the team. It was a great combination of tactical execution of the game plan and doing what we wanted to do.
"It's what you want to see and we could have made it a bit easier for ourselves and scored an extra goal, but the team recognises this more and more.
"You don't force it and go forward with everybody but just try to keep your organisation and if you don't score a second one you make sure you have a clean sheet, so this is a positive development because it would have been a shame if we had drawn after playing 60 minutes of great football."
Preston boss Alex Neil:
"I thought first half we lost too many headers, too many battles all over the pitch and Derby were faster, sharper and better than us.
"Like I said to them at half-time, it's quite easy for me to come in and start shouting and bawling and tell everybody how poor they've been but nothing is won at the moment and we are going to lose games along the way.
"The players understand and are frustrated for themselves, but at the end of the day, we win and lose as a team. Sometimes I'll get it wrong, sometimes they won't perform and that's part and parcel of it."
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