Match Day Thread Derby v Hull City

Hull City head coach Sergej Jakirovic told BBC Radio Humberside:

"It's always frustrating when you lose the game, but I think we played very well today. Especially in the second half when we controlled everything and we scored a nice goal.

"But in the end we unfortunately made two mistakes today and we were punished with two goals. Especially the second one, it's an easy situation. But these things happen in football.

On what he will say to goalkeeper Ivor Pandur after the error that cost Hull: "Head up and we continue. We will go on, because what can you do? You can't change anything. You can just take the lesson from this situation and keep going forward."

 

But what will he say to Semi?

 

Looking at the replay 3 or 4 seconds before the faux pas between Pandur and Ajayi, the central City defender (possibly Hughes. but I couldn't clearly read his number), who was a couple of feet in front of their eventual scorer and was attempting to head the high punted ball as it dropped out of the sky, either badly timed his attempted header, or to me seemed to be pushed in the back by said scorer which made the City defender miss the ball completely. That incident directly led to the fiasco that followed. Was it a foul (impeded by opposition player) or poor judgement in timing?
C'est la vie.

 

T'was a very difficult one to take, but sometime mistakes happen, and a bit of perspective needs to be had IMO. We have had some good rub of the green of late, tonight through miscommunication we gave away a soft goal.

However, first half, even though not great, the half was pretty even apart from them getting their goal.

2nd half we were totally out playing them, and looked to be the side that was going to take the 3 points, and that with a large percentage of our first teamers missing.

A stupid mistake cost us the game, but we shouldn't be down-hearted. In the end it may well have ended a draw, so we dropped a point, and with 3 against Norwich, and if we can win Saturday, it wouldn't be a bad week.

Hopefully this loss will give the boys extra motivation on Saturday, and get back to winning ways.