‘Enjoyed the anarchy’ - Derby County boss Paul Warne makes Coventry City admission
Paul Warne admitted he “enjoyed the anarchy” of Coventry City’s attempted fight-back that threatened to deny his Derby County side their first three points on the road this season.
The Rams put on a masterclass of time-wasting throughout their 2-1 CBS Arena victory, particularly late on in the game when the Sky Blues had got a goal back from Tatsuhiro Sakamoto and were pushing for an equaliser – Warne saying his players could have “kicked it in the car park” for all he cared.
“I am pretty pleased and you are always are after you win a game,” he said. “But I try not to go too much by scoreline just by performance. Prior to them scoring I felt reasonably comfortable. It might not have looked it because I was shouting at the lads all the time. But I felt we defended crosses well which is one of their super strengths.
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“The keeper helped us out and we defended set-pieces really well. Coventry are really innovative with their set-pieces and we have done a lot of work with the lads on that. We were quite good at neutralising them, and when they scored in the 75th minute, sickly, I quite enjoyed the anarchy of it all.
“It’s how football should be - it’s getting a bit stale which is just my opinion. But we counter-attacked well, and we had good pockets, but we could have been better on the tidy-up pass now and again. In the last five minutes you can kick it in the car park for all I care, I am not bothered about that. But in parts in the first half, I thought we were out if we had that one little pass.
“But I was really pleased with the lads although Callum Elder picked up a groin injury and Eiran Cashin picked up a fifth booking.”