SWEET IN END FOR ‘DISGUSTING’ DERBY

PAUL WARNE delivered a vicious assessment of Derby’s start at Newport.

He saw the Rams trail to Priestley Farquharson’s 41st-minute header – and admitted: “Our first-half performance was disgusting.

“We came here as the favourites and we played like the underdogs but the second half was a completely different game.”

Warne deserves plenty of credit for ringing the changes at the break, switching to a flat back four and moving Louie Sibley to left-back.

It worked a treat with Sibley (left) looking like Manchester City’s Joao Cancelo as he cut in and curled a brilliant equaliser inside the far post.

And Sibley put the 88th-minute winner on a plate for David McGoldrick with a peach of a cross.

Warne added: “It was chalk and cheese. We could have won at a canter in the end. I thought we thoroughly deserved our win. Sibs was honking in the first half, but I could say that about all 11. I’m not digging him out, I thought they were all pretty poor.”

Newport boss Graham Coughlan said: “It’s an opportunity missed. We had chances galore but ‘could haves’ and ‘should haves’ don’t win football games.”