Due to superstitious reasons I didn’t want to post my confidence going into yesterday, of course I was nervous but I really couldn’t see us losing in the 90 mins, it was more a case of could we see it off in that time.
The other thing as well for me was that Derby didn’t want it like we wanted it. A fan told me he wanted to win the game but not go up, which is the sign of a club punching above their weight. They would get found out big time in the premier league and give their previous record low some competition.
All the talk of Lampard potentially off to Chelsea and I also heard a story of a big piss up post their Leeds game. Something to me felt like they were just glad to get to Wembley and be down to the final two.
I thought overall we were by far the better team, they had a few half chances along with their goal but other than we controlled the pace of the game for the majority although there was a good spell for Derby in the first half I seem to recall in between the double figures of pints which has made my memory a bit hazy.
We should’ve wrapped it up when Jack went through and was too unselfish, but it doesn’t matter it’s in the past.
The line up was the one I wanted pre game, I understood why he played Adomah and to be fair, Adomah performed. I think I posted - or at least said to my mates - that the players around Jack needed to perform especially the two wide men, and perform they did. Arguably the bigger under performer was Tammy, I thought his hold up play was poor in parts again - he doesn’t seem to use his body or strength well enough.