Blues boss Paul Hurst was frustrated by Derby’s two deflected goals as Town were beaten 2-0 at Pride Park and felt his team may have shown the Rams too much respect at times.

“Frustrated in terms of the goals,” Hurst said when asked his assessment of the match. “I’m told they took deflections. Quite a few people have said to me, rather than me prompting them, that there wasn’t too much in the game.

“Naturally, Derby are a possession-based team and had a lot of possession. I’m not sure how many saves Bart was called upon to make and there was I think an element of frustration in the ground from the home supporters about what the outcome going to be.

“But once they got the goal, that seemed to give them a little bit more confidence, take a bit of the pressure off and then that’s when we’ve got to try and be a little bit braver on the ball.

“We had little spells during the game, we certainly had a spell in the first half but I didn’t feel we quite had the energy to get as much pressure on the ball as I would like at times.

“But again, that said, even in the games that Derby have lost they’ve enjoyed a lot of possession and made teams work without the ball.

“But perhaps what other teams have managed to do is when they’ve won it back is be more cutting and maybe take care of it a little better.”

As in previous games, both Derby goals came from set pieces, although Hurst doesn’t believe there have been too many common factors.

“They have been but I think they’re all very different,” he added. “But I’m accepting there are elements of set play.

“I don’t like the first one in terms of the ball [bouncing]. It’s not a great corner, in truth, it bounces, they make a run across the near post, it bounces, we get the first header on it, it goes to the edge of the box. That’s something we can look at in terms of a set-up.

“We can set up in lots of different ways, there’s always something. People talk about men on the post, things like that. But it’s a strike which has taken a deflection. Chambo’s in there saying it would have hit him had it not taken the first deflection.

“There’s an element of misfortune in that and then the second one, if someone has a direct shot at goal there’s not a lot you can really do about that.

“The wall, I thought there was going to be an argument in terms of someone turning their back or whatever.

“It’s nicked off Jon Nolan on the end of the wall and Bart’s saying that’s diverted the ball slightly, hence the reason he’s gone to his right initially and back on his left. I thought he got a good hand on it, I thought he’d managed to save it but it dropped in.

“You can’t rely on luck, that’s for sure, but at the same time we were perhaps a little bit unfortunate with those goals.”

Hurst thought playing more than 50 minutes with 10 men on Saturday against Aston Villa had some an impact.

“I think in truth it looked like that to a degree,” he reflected. “At the same time, you have to give Derby credit for the way that they play. They are going to make you run.

“It probably wasn’t the ideal opposition to play after having had 10 men at the weekend. But even then, how many real shots has Bart had to save?

“So it’s frustrating when that sort of goal goes in. It’s a good strike, take nothing away from Ledley, I don’t know how big the deflections were, I’m just going by what’s been said in the dressing room.

“But we did look like we lacked a little bit of energy. I have to say, maybe we were a little bit deep as well.

“That might have allowed us to get a little bit closer to them at times, but overall when you play Derby there’s an element you have to accept that they’re going to have a lot of the ball more often than not.”

While Bialkowski was forced to make few saves at one end, Carson was similarly underemployed at the other.

“A couple of very tame efforts and other opportunities where we haven’t hit the target, even right at the end,” Hurst continued.

“People say the game’s over but we’ve all seen it where two late goals change the outcome, the result and if you nick one you never know.

“It would have been nice to get that one just to see how Derby would have reacted. We put a couple of good balls in towards the end and we weren’t on the end of them.

“We just spoke about belief again, we mentioned that on Saturday and I mentioned it tonight. Did we truly have that belief collectively that we were going to get back in the game?

“It felt like we almost just gave them a little too much respect at times. We’ve got to shake that off because there are some big names in this league and some big name players.

“But we’re equals in terms that we’re in the same league and we’ve got to compete, which I think we did, but there were certain moments within the game that I want to see us better at.”

The Town manager confirmed that Cole Skuse was subbed due to a recurrence of the knock he suffered against Villa.

“His quad again,” he said. “He felt fine going into the game, he said. It was no major concern but again he felt that.

“I don’t know if it was from one of the tackles that he put in or not or whether it was just naturally happening in terms of the work he was getting through.

“He had to come off and we lost a bit of experience in there, I suppose, he’s one of our more experienced heads.

“But that said Flynn went on and did fine. I thought the subs that came on all had a relatively positive game after coming on. I’m not sure how much that influenced it but you are using a sub you might not have used.”

Hurst says there is nothing new on any loan additions: “No is the answer. I’ll be glad when we get to the window shutting and whether I like the squad that I’m left with, that we’ve got together, I’ve got to get on with it and that’s the same for every other manager out there.”

Derby manager Frank Lampard admitted his team had some good fortune with the deflections but felt the goals were deserved for their overall performance.

“They were a reward for work-rate, attitude, good play,” he said. “The not so good thing about the first half was that in the final third we didn’t get enough crosses in, we didn’t get enough shots in, even though I thought we played very well.

“We kept moving the ball very well with patience, with quality and we deserved the reward of the deflected goals.”

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Bluearmy_81 added 08:36 - Aug 22 Oh he does he's just tight
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vanmunt added 08:50 - Aug 22 Not saying it was a good performance or even a good game but all this talk of league 1 and 2 players when it is the likes of Chambers (can't stop hoofing), Knudson and to some degree Bart that seem to be the most under performing players. No denying we are desperate for a win from somewhere.
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runningout added 08:54 - Aug 22 Better belief will come with 3 points every week. We gave Derby the points to give them a false sense of security :-) off to Hillsborough I go
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mza added 08:59 - Aug 22 When are people going to stop trying to force the blame on the league 1 & 2 players? Change will take time, yes. Frustrating it may be but PH has done what the majority called for. Chambers will be phased out over the season if we bring in the suitable personnel, his captaincy is surely the only thing that is keeping him in the XI. Inevitably, Bart loses all form / confidence after his big-money contract. Still not sure about the link-up between Nolan and Harrison. Nolan looks like a good player but this 4-2-3-1 is much more of a 4-5-1 and Harrison is chasing shadows and seemingly getting frustrated up top alone. Still optimistic but thought Derby were really there for the taking after a fairly even first half.

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BlueBlood90 added 09:06 - Aug 22 I'm far from a moaner or getting on their backs but I just don't think we were good enough last night. For the money Derby have spent, they were extremely poor. Couldn't believe how so sloppy we were in possession and I lost count of the amount of times they misplaced simple 5 yard passes to each other. Knudsen got skinned alive every time a winger even looked at him. Harrison was a lost little puppy chasing shadows all night and had nobody within a 40 yard radius of him for support. We just seem to have absolutely no creativity or attacking mentality in that team. Hopefully we can get Bishop and Huws fit as soon as possible and that might help otherwise it'll be a long season.

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brittaniaman added 09:18 - Aug 22 Well Paul we have got to get some points on Board sooner rather than later, otherwise the morale of players and fans will hit rock bottom, I know that is logical, and it is early days, I am sure you are doing your best for ITFC. 3pts. this Sat. would give everybody a real good feeling before the Norwich game !!!! So come on you Blues and get those Max. points.
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brendenward35 added 09:19 - Aug 22 Think the missing key is Huws good player strong and creates and scores goals. The sooner his back in the starting 11 the better
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Bezzer added 09:46 - Aug 22 I'm not sure Huws is the answer, although I think I remember him being a good championship player, we can't rely on our fortunes turning on one player coming back! All I can say is, we must have some poor young players on the books for all of those Div 1&2 players to come straight into the team!! Why waste money on 9/10 poor/average players when we could have bought 4/5 quality championship players in and mixed them with existing 1st teamers and up and coming youth?!

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TimmyH added 09:53 - Aug 22 Well that comes through the management...why show them respect? they haven't been playing well this season. Maybe a number of league 1 players for us playing up against a few ex-Premiership one's influenced that.
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Cheshire_Blue added 10:19 - Aug 22 Absolutely right, no MM and TC anymore and where are we heading. Didn't look like scoring last night at any time. Where are we heading ? Time will tell.
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BobbyBell added 11:04 - Aug 22 Still lots of moans about lower league players coming here. For god's sake please give them a chance. Please correct me if I'm wrong as I haven't checked but purely from memory didn't Jon Walters, Matt Holland, Marcus Stewart come fro lower league clubs? There are probably many more but this is just three off the cuff.
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leahcar88 added 12:02 - Aug 22 Stewart was same division with Huddersfield, but Bart came from lower leagues. Chambers started off lower leagues as did skuse. Joe garner fumbled about lower leagues before he got Preston up. Huws Man City product but loaned out to league 1 before Wigan took him I think Mcgreal, cresswell mings. List goes on buh. The possible problem is to many at once.
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brittaniaman added 13:16 - Aug 22 Just one question I wanted to ask, Why was our most expensive player sitting on the bench ???
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dukey44 added 13:34 - Aug 22 Biggest problem is we don't have a plan B as plan A really isn't working? There's no supply and it certainly isn't working with 1 up front
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Elkcib1 added 13:37 - Aug 22 We will come good
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hockleyblue added 13:43 - Aug 22 Sorry we are heading for League 1.
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scants_itfc added 13:49 - Aug 22 In my view we looked pretty solid defensively last night, and that has made a nice change from the sloppy goals we have been conceding so far... can't do much about a big deflection and to be honest the freekick was poor refereeing, unless Nsiala has vanishing skills we don't know about, I am not sure where he was supposed to go. Problem for me is up front, not sure where the goals are going to come from. I felt sorry for Harrison up there on his own, but whilst neither have looked that good on their own, Jackson looks like a better option if we are going to play with 1 up, although I agree with most on here that it should be two! I am disappointed Sears isn't getting a look in, for me he has always looked like scoring when played in his position through the middle. In for a long season. My biggest positive so far is Edwards, he could turn out to be one of our best signings in a long time

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herfie added 14:36 - Aug 22 The reality is that we're embarked on a journey into the unknown or, in Monty Python speak, ‘Now for something completely different'. The risks are great, no question; but the train has started and there's little option other than to stay on board since there's no obvious Plan B to go with - given the resources at PH's disposal. We might get a couple of loanees in (experienced?), but the challenge remains getting the max out of what we now have, reviewing team set-up, changing ethos to meet the C'ship rigours whilst simultaneously picking up points. Whilst it's still early days, each defeat or below par performance inevitably drains confidence and belief. So a lot of balls to juggle against a clock that will start ticking that bit louder as the games go by. But Sunday 2 September is when it all comes right! COYB!

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Steve_D added 14:50 - Aug 22 Scuba gear for P H and his signings as they are out of their depth
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FromIpswichToPhoenix added 16:26 - Aug 22 We'll get there. Give them time.
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Kesblue66 added 16:32 - Aug 22 Its not the incoming the problem.RB.CB.RW.look ok.The promlem is the ones with were already here.
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aas1010 added 17:14 - Aug 22 Well done Sparkerino .
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norfolkbluey added 20:12 - Aug 22 Too many lower division players playing above their ability. This suggests many more outcomes similar to to this result against a very average derby side with another inexperienced manager even though he was a top notch player. I just hope we don't end up at the bottom of this league by Christmas. Good luck H but as before we are very under-funded. You cannot create a silk purse from pigskin. I say again selling Waghorn was a BIG MISTAKE.

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ITFCsince73 added 20:34 - Aug 22 Agree Kesblue66
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dukey44 added 20:48 - Aug 22 Norfolk bluey waghorn wanted out so couldn't make him stay? Why keep a player that don't want to stay? Just hope we turn corner sooner than later
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