Well in complete contrast to Monday night that was just pants. Pants pants pants in so many ways.
It was a game we should've won. I reckon had we scored first we probably would've won easily. But whereas on some days our lovely passing game comes off today it really didn't. We were guilty of trying to string too many passes together and not shooting enough.
Derby were obvious but effective. They came to be dirty, physical, to get in the way and to stop us doing what we do well. And they succeeded and managed to get an unlikely goal with 15 minutes left.
I don't blame them for their tactics at all. After all they have Robbie Savage as captain and Nigel Clough as manager. What was extremely frustrating was that the officials spent the afternoon being overly fussy about stupid things and never bothered to clamp down on Derby's fouls with anything more than free kicks.
How on earth the ref can think its fair that we ended the day with 5 yellow cards to their 2 only he will be able to explain. Under other officials they would've ended the day with 9 men or less.
We came close from a Cleverley shot that was well saved and Eustace blasting over from a few yards out but we never really should've been chasing the game.
On a positive note Jay DeMerit was back and our defence looked all the better for him. Ironic then that we didn't get the points but this was a game to simply forget and move on from.
