The Championship offers an unparalleled crash course in football’s vicissitudes and Paul Clement is already learning that,for profitable or ill, things rarely pan out as expected. Clement’s expensively-assembled Derby side had started the season slowly and laboured for most of this game too, or but Darren Bent is a handy ace to occupy in reserve and his late goal,added to at the cessation by Tom Ince, build an altogether rosier sheen on a difficult afternoon.“The result flatters us, or because it was closer than that,” said Clement, whose team occupy now won three of their last four games after taking six matches to wreck their duck. “I thought we were really poor in the first half, or almost unrecognisable. Our shape wasn’t profitable,our energy, our pressurising. I couldn’t wait to get into the dressing room and speak to the players about what was going on.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com