03-04-2022, 09:56
Derby County 1 Morrison Preston North End 0
Derby County line-up: Allsop; Byrne, Davies, Cashin, Buchanan; Knight, Bird; Ebiowei (Morrison, 68), Lawrence, Ebosele (Bielik, 58); Plange (Stearman, 85). Subs not used: Roos, Forsyth, Stearman, Sibley, Cybulski.
PNE line-up: Iversen; Rafferty, Bauer, Lindsay, Hughes; Whiteman, Johnson, Browne; Riis (van den Berg, 35), Evans (Maguire, 65), Archer (Murphy, 75). Subs not used: Ripley, McCann, Sinclair, Potts.
Referee: Mr G Eltringham.
Attendance: 23,600 (1,530 PNE fans).
A new addition to the utter abysmal performances wehave had this season, hot off the woeful effort at Luton this was probably just as bad, on the day it was the right result they wanted it more than us and on that showing it is hard to argue that the Rams are certainties for the drop, they have every chance of staying up.
We started brightly really should have been ahead fom the first corner however as Johnson was about to shoot one of his team mates took the ball away from him and the chance was lost and from then on in it was a downwards spiral.
Fairly even for about ten minutes then Derby started to control things Lawrence ran midield basically on his own, class player this lad although his inability to drive a car coincided with the clubs fall from grace.
Knight fired one wide, before Derby worked the ball well down the right wing and Lawrence ghosting in a la Martin Peters glanced a header wide from close in should have scored.
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As with our last trip to the Midlands we wore our red kit, it affected Lindsay at Coventry as he was sent off and after a series of misplaced passes in midfield which was a trend which lasted most of the game, Lindsay was left chasing Lawrence who was through on goal, down went Lawrence and off went Lindsay although there may have been a covering defender but down to ten and any chance of victory gone.
Managed to survive until half time then it was one way traffic again at the start of the second half, Derby used the width of the pitch and were starting to look a tired side, when we were given a lifeline wwhen Bird cleaned out Whiteman and also received a red present from Uncle Geoff.
Little to note until Derby brought Morrison on, looked lively and from a corner from which Iversen made two good goalline saves the ball was not cleared and fell invitingly to Morrison to volley the ball into the net. It was deserved,needed a decent save from Iversen to stop him scoring again.
Never really looked like getting level and this was is best filed under the heading of poor as many have been this season.
Rams boss Wayne Rooney told BBC Radio Derby:
"It's always nice when you score late on and get three points. I think it was a bit of a strange game. I think we can play better than we did in the first half and then they go to 10 men and I thought we had complete control of the game and were stretching the pitch.
"What pleased me most was that when we went down to 10 men we wanted to win the game most and so I think we deserved the three points.
"You can make it difficult when you're playing against 10 men because you can rush things, so we had to stay patient. We created chances and I'm delighted for Ravel [Morrison] getting the goal."
Preston manager Ryan Lowe:
"We're disappointed. Obviously the sending off just kills momentum and we have to adapt a little bit.
"When they lose their man you think go on the front foot, I thought it was going to affect them more than us because they needed to find the win but they found it and we didn't.
"I thought the game was going to be seen out as a 0-0, we were cagey and I thought Derby were definitely a little bit cagey. We felt we weren't really going to score and they weren't going to find a way of scoring unless it was from a mistake."
Derby County line-up: Allsop; Byrne, Davies, Cashin, Buchanan; Knight, Bird; Ebiowei (Morrison, 68), Lawrence, Ebosele (Bielik, 58); Plange (Stearman, 85). Subs not used: Roos, Forsyth, Stearman, Sibley, Cybulski.
PNE line-up: Iversen; Rafferty, Bauer, Lindsay, Hughes; Whiteman, Johnson, Browne; Riis (van den Berg, 35), Evans (Maguire, 65), Archer (Murphy, 75). Subs not used: Ripley, McCann, Sinclair, Potts.
Referee: Mr G Eltringham.
Attendance: 23,600 (1,530 PNE fans).
A new addition to the utter abysmal performances wehave had this season, hot off the woeful effort at Luton this was probably just as bad, on the day it was the right result they wanted it more than us and on that showing it is hard to argue that the Rams are certainties for the drop, they have every chance of staying up.
We started brightly really should have been ahead fom the first corner however as Johnson was about to shoot one of his team mates took the ball away from him and the chance was lost and from then on in it was a downwards spiral.
Fairly even for about ten minutes then Derby started to control things Lawrence ran midield basically on his own, class player this lad although his inability to drive a car coincided with the clubs fall from grace.
Knight fired one wide, before Derby worked the ball well down the right wing and Lawrence ghosting in a la Martin Peters glanced a header wide from close in should have scored.
As with our last trip to the Midlands we wore our red kit, it affected Lindsay at Coventry as he was sent off and after a series of misplaced passes in midfield which was a trend which lasted most of the game, Lindsay was left chasing Lawrence who was through on goal, down went Lawrence and off went Lindsay although there may have been a covering defender but down to ten and any chance of victory gone.
Managed to survive until half time then it was one way traffic again at the start of the second half, Derby used the width of the pitch and were starting to look a tired side, when we were given a lifeline wwhen Bird cleaned out Whiteman and also received a red present from Uncle Geoff.
Little to note until Derby brought Morrison on, looked lively and from a corner from which Iversen made two good goalline saves the ball was not cleared and fell invitingly to Morrison to volley the ball into the net. It was deserved,needed a decent save from Iversen to stop him scoring again.
Never really looked like getting level and this was is best filed under the heading of poor as many have been this season.
Rams boss Wayne Rooney told BBC Radio Derby:
"It's always nice when you score late on and get three points. I think it was a bit of a strange game. I think we can play better than we did in the first half and then they go to 10 men and I thought we had complete control of the game and were stretching the pitch.
"What pleased me most was that when we went down to 10 men we wanted to win the game most and so I think we deserved the three points.
"You can make it difficult when you're playing against 10 men because you can rush things, so we had to stay patient. We created chances and I'm delighted for Ravel [Morrison] getting the goal."
Preston manager Ryan Lowe:
"We're disappointed. Obviously the sending off just kills momentum and we have to adapt a little bit.
"When they lose their man you think go on the front foot, I thought it was going to affect them more than us because they needed to find the win but they found it and we didn't.
"I thought the game was going to be seen out as a 0-0, we were cagey and I thought Derby were definitely a little bit cagey. We felt we weren't really going to score and they weren't going to find a way of scoring unless it was from a mistake."
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