Match Day Thread Derby County v PNE Pride Park 25/8/2018

First the bad news since we returned to the Championship we have not beaten County or as they are now known Frank Lampard's Derby County for the TV company that ruins the game.

Derby wiki

Derby County Football Club (/ˈdɑːrbi ˈkaʊnti/) is a professional association football club based in Derby, Derbyshire, England. The club currently competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of English football, and has played its home matches at Pride Park Stadium since 1997.

Notable for being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888, Derby County is one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English football league system and, in 2009, was ranked 137th in the top 200 European football teams of the 20th century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics.
The club was founded in 1884 by William Morley, as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club; it has spent all but four seasons in the top two divisions of English football. Its competitive peak came in the 1970s when it twice won the First Division and competed in major European competitions on four separate occasions, reaching the European Cup semi-finals as well as winning several minor trophies. Additionally, the club was a strong force in the interwar years, winning the 1945–46 FA Cup.

The club's home colours have been black and white since the 1890s. It appropriated its nickname The Rams, a tribute to its links with the First Regiment of Derby Militia, which took a ram as its mascot and the song "The Derby Ram" as its regimental song, at the same time.

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Lampard has been busy since taking charge having side every forward in the world, plus attacking midfielders however the best player he has was already at the club in Tom Lawrence, the other Tom Huddlestone is also classy but has not played this season. With all the attacking talent they have at the back they look a bit creaky Davies is injured and they do look a bit ponderous with the pass if out style Frank wants to play.
Bad news for Frank is we are in town and he will look like this in 40 years.

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Well having reflected in the cold light of day on last nights defeat, think the boss to select what he wants to be his first team, could be worse a couple of seasons ago lost 5 from the first 6 under Grayson. Time to get stuck in boys.

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The referee for Saturday's trip to Pride Park will be David Webb, who has a significant number of games officiating the two clubs over the years.

The Lancashire match official is in his 11th season on the EFL lists and is taking charge of his fourth game of the season, having issued four cautions in his first three games, the last of which was Brentford's 2-0 home win over Sheffield Wednesday.

It is early 2016 since both clubs last saw the referee, despite him doing a combined 16 PNE and Rams games since the start of the 2009 season. That season he refereed Derby's first game of the season, as they lost at Rotherham United and just two weeks later, North End's 2-0 home win over Peterborough United.

Since then he has refereed PNE on ten occasions, some of the most memorable games including the FA Cup win at Wycimbe Wanderers, when Kevin Davies scored a stunning strike from 35 yards and a 3-2 home win opver Crewe Alexandra in 2011.
Derby, meanwhile, have had him take the whistle for six games, their only victory in those fixtures beting a 3-0 home triump over Sheffield Wednesday in November 2013.

At Pride Park he will be joined by Mark Russell and James Wilson, who will run the lines, whilst the fourth official is Peter Wright.

 

AN has to let the team settle to with what it feels comfortable.

 

Derby County 2 Mount, Keogh Preston North End 0
Not been but sounds similar to Wednesday night, apparently better side until the Rams scored and then faded rapidly after that.
Three away games 0 goals and 0 points, have we been rumbled, big week in the loan/buy a player in the January window, think we need someone to actually put the ball in the net, will Trev open the purse or is he trying to recoup money spent before selling, could be a long season at this rate.

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Goals from Mason Mount and Richard Keogh gave Derby County all three points at Pride Park.

Mount opened the scoring with Derby’s first shot on target seven minutes before the break, firing home after David Nugent’s cross from the right. And Keogh headed home the second from Mount’s corner with 12 minutes to go.

There were four changes for the Lilywhites with Josh Harrop, Ryan Ledson – for his first league start – Ben Davies and Graham Burke coming into the side and the green-clad visitors dominated the first half and were very unlucky to come at the break 1-0 down.

Ten minutes in Lukas Nmecha tested Scott Carson in the Rams goal after a good spell of pressure from North End, Callum Robinson finding him just inside the box, and his quick feet allowing him room to shoot but straight down the former England stopper’s throat.

And the former Liverpool custodian was in good form; just before the half hour mark he saved superbly from Robinson. Nmecha again went forward and played in Harrop who drove forward and pulled the ball back to Robinson, who checked inside and shot, the keeper going down to his right to push the ball behind for a corner.

The opening goal came on 38 minutes and it was completely against the run of play. PNE were on the attack, but the ball was collected on the right by Mason Bennett, who played the ball down the right for Nugent, who played a first-time ball right across in behind the green defence and Mount collected, checked onto his right had fired low past Rudd into the left-hand side of the goal.

The second half reverted back to type from the off, with North End dominating the chances, in fact 70 seconds in Graham Burke was found by Nmecha and curled an effort from the right-hand corner of the box past Carson, but also just over the stanchion.

The home side were still a threat on the counter and another Nugent through ball found Bennett in the box, but Rudd stood up well to deny the midfielder in a one-on-one chance in the 50th minute.

On the hour mark Burke went close to levelling matters. A free kick from Harrop into the box was headed up in the air and fed back into the middle of the box by Andrew Hughes, where the Irishman spun and shot left footed just past the left-hand upright.

But with 12 minutes to go Frank Lampard’s skipper Keogh wrapped up the points for the home side. A corner was conceded on the right and Mount delivered to the back post and Keogh rose highest to head down and squeezed the ball into the bottom left hand corner.

Derby County line-up: Carson, Forsyth, Bryson, Tomori, Keogh (c), Mount, Lawrence, Bennett (Jozefzoon, 80), Nugent, Ledley (B Johnson, 49), Bogle (Wisdom, 30). Subs not used: Roos, Waghorn, Marriott, Lowe.

PNE line-up: Rudd, Fisher, Hughes, Pearson, Huntington (c), Davies, Burke (Barker, 68), Ledson, Nmecha (Barker, 68), Harrop, Robinson (Moult, 80). Subs not used: Maxwell, Earl, D Johnson, Storey.

Attendance: 25,257 (1,144 PNE fans)

Referee: Mr D Webb

 

Derby County manager Frank Lampard on match-winner Mount: "He can be top, top level because he's 19 and plays with ability and quality. Technically he's brilliant but also his work-rate shouldn't go unnoticed.

"He's so quick to leave midfield to go and press people, whether it be defenders or deep-lying midfield players, which makes you the all-round midfield player.

"At some stage he will go back to Chelsea. I don't want to think about that now, but when he does I think he's going to be a contender."

Preston manager Alex Neil said: "The first goal was going to be a big factor in the game and I thought it came at a stage when we were on top.

"For the first 40 minutes of the match I was really pleased with how we performed, but from that point onwards our quality in terms of breaking on them wasn't as good as it should have been.

"At the moment we are struggling to score goals. If we want to try and hit the heights of last year we need to turn potential into quality on the pitch and we need to make sure that going forward we've got more of a cutting edge."

 

Toldo early to make any realistic judgements. People are saying Nmecha is crap, but he is a young guy who did well in junior teams and needs to adjust to 'big boys'' footy in the most competitive division in the UK if not the world.

 

Needs decent service