Ben Gibson makes amends for his mix-up by scoring a winner with some controversy as Stoke beat Derby at the bet365 Stadium on Saturday.
Stoke were already one up after 9 minutes, Cannon was played in behind the Derby defence and went to ground under Zetterstrom’s challenge, with the goalkeeper racing out to meet him. The ref points straight to the spot and Cannon netted.
Then in the 68th minute, a disaster at the back from Stoke gave Derby an equaliser. No big pressure from the Rams – Elder played a ball towards the edge of the box and after a misunderstanding with Gibson not realising Johansson was miles off his line. He doesn’t have time to get back and can only push it into the corner of his own net as he scrambles towards his goal-line.
In the final 10 minutes, Gibson made up for his mistake by sealing the win with his header from a corner but not without controversy after Nat Phillips was sent to ground after a collision with Junior Tchamadeu.
Though Derby had their own luck after Phillip’s dangerous tackle on Jun-ho had gone unnoticed earlier in the match to save him for a potential second yellow.
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Ian Cranson (Fomer Stoke defender on BBC Radio Stoke): “We will certainly take the result, after the first 20 minutes we played some really good stuff, but the second part of the first half was really shabby
“Stoke allowed them to put pressure on us, by giving it away a bit too cheaply and enticing them to put the pressure on.
“We will definitely take the three points but I think we could definitely play much better.”
Potters head coach Narcis Pelach told BBC Radio Stoke:
“I was very pleased with the goal. We have worked a lot on set-plays. When I was with Huddersfield, we were the best team in the league. We scored 22 goals from set-plays by keeping it very simple but being very aggressive.
“We wanted to be more aggressive than them. We want to be this strong team that scores with wide free-kicks and set-plays.
“I am really pleased. When you watch the goal back we are nasty. We put the ball into the six-yard box and we get good contact with it. I am pleased that our captain has scored it after the mistake for their goal.
“We were the better team. We deserved to win. We scored a nice goal with some really good play which resulted in the penalty, but for me the most important thing was coming back mentally from the goal we conceded.”
Derby head coach Paul Warne told BBC Radio Derby:
“I am so disappointed with the second goal. I don’t expect anyone will be surprised to hear me say I think it is a foul.
“But, if you run flat out into the front zone man, to knock him out of the way and you score in the front zone, then I’m going to be disappointed.
“But I don’t think we played well enough in the entirety to merit any points. At 1-1 I thought we were going to win it.
“Even the Stoke fans thought it, that we might get a goal sooner or later. We tried to make attacking substitutions, and I’m an optimist. But, if you don’t play well enough, you possibly don’t get anything out of the game.”
Here’s how fans reacted as Ben Gibson makes amends for his mix-up by scoring a winner with controversy as Stoke beat Derby…
@wynnielad: Credit for ref for officiating for 90 minutes without his guide dog.
@ConnorDcfc: Foul aswell 😂😂
@dcfcdougie: Foul should have been given, shocking officials again
@JoeRE07: Don’t deserve to win but that is a foul on Phillips every day of the week
@nxthdcfc: How’s that not a foul
@RamInSweden: How is it not a free kick 😆
@TonyShorts90739: Rlly wasn’t a foul tbh lads 😂
@AlexBar29105505: How’s that not a foul!??????
@BrandonDCFC: Foul or not we are absolutely fucking woeful
@max21797960: It’s a foul but we’ve still been shit
@JackRutterrr: Derby fans completely forgetting that Phillips shouldn’t even be on the pitch 😂😂
@James_collins90: That was definitely a foul in there joke referee #dcfc #dcfcfans
@JamesGWhitaker: How the fuck has that not been given as a foul #dcfc #dcfcfans
@JD02___: Shit refs, we only get shit refs #dcfc
@Vaughanyboy: Disgraceful decision, yet again #DCFC
@Josh__193: Don’t deserve anything anyway. How people can defend this shite is beyond me.
@WrightStuff86: Second free kick was soft. Blatant foul on Phillips missed from the corner. Refs have to be better. That’s not acceptable. #dcfc
@ATalbot_20: Clear foul on Phillips on that corner but nothing given….. 🤣 #dcfc
@AshChapman94: I mean it’s so obviously a foul. Might get a decision go our way at some stage this season #dcfc
@dcfc87: I don’t like VAR, but you have to wonder if there’s a case for it in the Championship. Their first probably gets ruled out for offside immediately prior to the foul which lead to the penalty & their second definitely gets chalked off. #dcfc
@chris_roe78: Yes it’s a foul on Phillips, but let’s be honest, he shouldn’t even be on the pitch #dcfc
@danielandrews98: Stonewall foul on Phillips for the goal, but derby not done enough to get anything from this game. As bad as I’ve seen us for a while #dcfc #dcfcfans
@DCFCChristopher: @EFL shock you boy in black bias again
@Guardthebee: Seems to be nearly every single game we see such sheer incompetence from officials. So many big and obvious decisions wrong this season. Wasn’t even this bad in League One? #dcfc #dcfcfans
@s35ram: Another horrific referee beyond a joke now. Clear offside and a clear foul for both goals. Time for the club to ask serious questions of @EFL #dcfc
@JamesW1884: Sometimes its really wank being a Derby County fan. Onto Coventry. #dcfc #dcfcfans
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