Leicester City v Derby County – Nigel Clough's view
Derby boss Nigel Clough said the quality Leicester City had on the substitutes' bench was the difference between the two sides.
Clough lamented the poor defending that led to them being 2-0 down inside half-an-hour, but he felt his side could have drawn level and even gone on to win the game until the introductions of substitutes David Nugent and Ben Marshall in the second half.
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Derby boss Nigel Clough
Nugent scored two goals, the first of which was set up by Marshall, as City then eased through to a 4-1 victory.
"The first time Cardiff went in our box the other night they scored and it was the same with Leicester. It's another goal conceded from a set-play," said Clough.
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"That's the only thing that's holding us back. The general performance was not too bad for long periods of the game.
"But all that goes out the window if you don't defend properly and we certainly didn't in the first half-an-hour.
"Jimmy O'Connor gave them the second goal but, with all his experience, he shouldn't be giving that away. It was individual errors.
"If you give someone like Leicester the first goal after five minutes, they're going to be all over you.
"They are a powerful attacking side. Then we saw our other side, where as soon as we got a foothold and scored the equaliser whoever got the next goal would go on and win the game. Unfortunately it was them.
"I don't think Leicester took their foot off the pedal, I thought we started to play a bit.
"We got three in midfield and started knocking it around, and they found it difficult to cope with us. We created enough to get the equaliser.
"But then Nugent came off the bench and the quality they could bring off the bench made the difference."
Comments
by solfox
Wednesday, December 05 2012, 5:45PM
“Sounds like he's drinking more than his dad used too.........”
by foxeerod
Tuesday, December 04 2012, 8:40PM
“the first half hour was stunning total football, one of the best 30 mins ive seen from the foxes ever , it could and should have been 5 or 6 nil , but dont worry young mr clough, even barcelona would have struggled to live with us .
to be fair to the sheep they played a lot better once they scored and i was getting a little worried till marshall and nugent changed the game back in our favour”
by FoxFreak
Monday, December 03 2012, 5:45PM
“The asterisked bit wasn't rude, by the way. LM have a very sensitive filter!”
by FoxFreak
Monday, December 03 2012, 5:44PM
“And I'm not too impressed with him publicly naming and shaming one of his defenders. Our Nigel says publicly that we take collective responsibility. The individual ****gings-off are done behind closed doors, which is how it should be.”
by dobranich
Monday, December 03 2012, 3:48PM
“equaliser Nigel which game were you at????”