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Derby boss Paul Warne jokes about Ebou Adams’ miss of the season against Cardiff

Derby County boss Paul Warne jokes about Ebou Adams’ miss of the season against the player’s former club Cardiff City on Saturday.

The 28 year old missed an incredible chance in the dying seconds for the Rams, who broke on the counter-attack as Adams beat Alnwick to a bouncing ball, the keeper had been off his line.

But Adams scuffed his shot past an open Cardiff net, he fell to ground once he knew it was going wide, in disbelief like everyone else in the stadium and watching on at home. A video of it has gone viral online, getting thousands of likes and millions of views.

Luckily for Derby, they won the game anyway, and while the Derby head coach saw the funny side of Adams’ miss, he also highlighted his presence in the team.

The result leaves Derby sitting 8th in the Championship table with 9 points, while Cardiff are bottom with 1 point.

Derby’s Paul Warne, per Sky Sports: “To come away with another win and a clean sheet is still great. The lads are giving it everything they can, they literally gas out. Even if we conceded late on it wouldn’t have detracted from my pride of the group.

“Everybody knows exactly what they’re doing. Sometimes you get cut open by really good play, but I didn’t feel like we did and even late on I felt comfortable. All in all everyone deserves a pat on the back for a clean sheet.

“I thought [the miss] was hilarious. My memory is so bad, in years to come people will remember it as the Ebou game, it was like a Ronny Rosenthal moment.

“In fairness to him, he’s the only player on the pitch who would have got that opportunity, no one would have been brave enough to go for the header and no one had any energy left.

“I would have been buzzing for him if he had scored because he thoroughly deserved it, but I have a sick sense of humour so it made me smile as well, but it will go down as Ebou’s game.”

Derby head coach Paul Warne told BBC Radio Derby:

“I thought our play deserved possibly a second goal we didn’t get. To come away with a 1-0 win is still great, another clean sheet.

“The lads are giving everything they can so, even if we’d conceded late on, it wouldn’t have detracted from my pride in the group.

“They gave everything they could physically and got their win based on that.”

Cardiff assistant coach Omer Riza: “We needed to stop leaking goals and we’ve done it again, we’ve conceded a scrappy goal which puts us on the back foot and we’re chasing the game, we need to do more.

“Football is about chances and scoring goals. It can put you on the back foot when you don’t do that. Our aggression around the pitch has got to be a lot better and our intensity to want to get close.

“We’ve made new signings and we want them to be impactful for us. There were some good patches in the game which we need to keep building on and we need the whole squad.

“Now it’s about improving and getting better. We’ve picked up one point from five games, it’s not where we want to be, we want to be winning games, some of the performances need to be better.

“We want to have confidence and momentum and the only way you can get those things is if you win and perform well and we’ve performed well in patches, but it’s not enough.”

Cardiff assistant coach Omer Riza told BBC Sport Wales:

“We’ve had a few disappointing afternoons. We knew it was going to be a tough game but we wanted to control the game.

“We needed to stop leaking goals but we’ve done it again. From nothing, we’ve conceded a goal from a throw-in, a scrappy goal, it puts us on the back foot and we’re chasing the game.

“We need to do more. Football’s about chances and scoring goals and it can put you on the back foot when you don’t do that.

“When you talk about concern, obviously we’ve lost games and we’ve picked up one point so it’s not where we want to be.”

Here’s how fans on Twitter reacted as Derby boss Paul Warne jokes about Ebou Adams’ miss of the season against Cardiff…

@scottneedham88: Exactly this. @Ebouadams is some player! 🐏

@swigger67: Exactly – he’s the only player who could possibly have got that opportunity. Ebouuuuuu!!!!!!

@sbro161: 96 minutes of all action Ebou, to then sprint the length of the pitch when let’s be honest, 99% of players wouldn’t have chased that down. Gutted for him to miss, but that shows what a special player he is, and has been since joining us initially on loan in January. Ebouuuuuu

@SCOLLLLL: I’m sorry but how has a professional footballer of any level missed that? 🤣

@jorjwwfc: when you accidentally press A instead of B

@WinksFootball: Oh Ebou! You deserved the goal! But we know no other player would have gone and won that ball with the keeper. Unlucky Ebou! We love you

@LP__92: Poor bloke ran his arse off for 97 minutes and this is how his legs repay him.

@cardiffcitymad: Incredible miss by Adams. But just look at the desire and commitment from him to win that ball. Not the first time during the game that Derby almost scored from a Cardiff City corner.

@Jackos309: Oh Ebou. Actually gutted for him to show the determination to get there and then do that 😂😭 sure he’ll see the funny side

@JakeBarker1212: Felt so sorry for Cardiff (who were awful) that he missed on purpose. What a guy

@JoshMillward4: Nah honestly it’s f*cking horrible this, I’m starting to wonder how high the technical quality of championship footballers is, my 6 year old son scores that 100/100 times 😂

@dcfcstephen: Did it on purpose out of respect to his former club. He’s that much of a good guy.

@TurbinesG: I mean yeah the miss is awful, but not many players in the division have the desire and bravery to even make that chance for themselves

@LouisePage_: Harder to miss this surely?!

@HJ_MFC: That is fucking terrible 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@TomKerry_: I fucking love Ebou Adams. Yes the miss is awful but the work rate to chase that ball down and make that chance is phenomenal. We haven’t had many players in my time watching Derby who would work that hard in the 96th minute #dcfc

@CharlieWilk0: Impossible to dislike him even after that miss

@Raking5: Will forgive him for missing sitter of the season 😂

@Ewan_Valentine: Happens to the best of us @Ebouadams and you ARE the best of us 🖤🤍🐏 #dcfc #dcfcfans

@1805cam: Ebou Adams I’ve never seen anything like that in my life 😭😭😭 most ridiculous miss I’ve ever seen

@ccfcmatchworn: Little consolation but that Ebou Adams miss is one of the worst misses in football history

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