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Bristol City
Championship | Gameweek 12
Nov 21, 2020 at 3pm UK
Ashton Gate Stadium
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Bristol City
1 - 0
Derby

Diedhiou (78')
Paterson (46')
FT(HT: 0-0)

Buchanan (58')

Wayne Rooney's Derby suffer defeat at Bristol City

Bristol City edge the Championship match at Ashton Gate.

Wayne Rooney's first game as figurehead of Derby's new coaching team ended in a 1-0 Sky Bet Championship defeat to Bristol City at Ashton Gate.

Substitute Famara Diedhiou struck the only goal on 78 minutes, latching onto an Antoine Semenyo cross from the right and beating David Marshall with a low left-footed shot from 12 yards.

It was enough to settle a game of few chances and keep Derby pinned to the bottom of the table, while the hosts kept themselves flying high among the frontrunners.

Rooney played the whole game but was unable to inspire his side to victory against a well-organised home defence.

Derby's four-man coaching team, including former Bristol player Liam Rosenior, who directed operations from the dugout, made three changes from the 2-0 home defeat by Barnsley, calling Andre Wisdom, Max Bird and Duane Holmes into a 4-2-3-1 formation.

Bristol, whose training ground only reopened on Thursday after a Covid-19 outbreak, were unchanged from their 1-0 victory at Cardiff last time out.

It took an outstanding Dan Bentley save to stop Derby taking a sixth minute lead. The goalkeeper arched his back to tip over a well-struck Martyn Waghorn volley from the edge of the box.

Five minutes later Marshall was almost left red-faced when robbed by Jamie Paterson, but the City player seemed more surprised than anyone and a poor touch allowed the goalkeeper to recover.

Both sides settled into playing neat passing football without an end product. The game was past the half hour mark when Semenyo forced a save from Marshall with a low drive.

At the other end, Bentley was relieved to see a deflected shot from Holmes go wide. The busy Holmes then put Jason Knight in on the right, but his cross was blocked by Tomas Kalas.

Bristol had the first meaningful goal attempt of the second half as Semenyo's 59th minute was dealt with by Marshall at his near post. Seconds later Waghorn was just wide for Derby with a curling effort.

Semenyo headed wide from a Jack Hunt cross as both teams again attacked with promise. Holmes fired over for the visitors before Paterson wasted a good Bristol chance by shooting over from inside the box.

Both sides made changes, Bristol head coach Dean Holden sending on Diedhiou and Chris Brunt for Martin and Callum O'Dowda before Derby responded by replacing Holmes with Morgan Whittaker.

It was Diedhiou's introduction that reaped dividends. More changes followed for both sides, but while Derby threw men forward in the closing stages their finishing was not accurate enough to test Bentley.

Matt Clarke was wide with a header as the hosts soaked up late pressure to claim the points.

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