Allardyce was without 8 senior players through either injury of suspension and the lack of cohesion in the team proved costly as Derby completely dominated the opening 15 minutes of the encounter.
Speaking to the official site following the game Allardyce admitted it cost them dear. “It’s no good when you’ve gone 2-0 down and not got the result out of the game. What satisfaction do you get from playing well when you lose? Yes, the lads recovered from a disappointing start but we’ve got nothing out of the game.
“As well we’ve played after a horrific ten or 15 minutes at the start, we have faltered in front of goal to get something out of the match. Realistically, we’ve thrown the game in that opening period.
“It was probably because of our injury and suspension problems that we started so sloppy and a little hesitant. I thought we lacked a little bit of confidence because of the problems that we’ve had.
“We did recover very well from it and give it a really good go and I think, in the end, deserved a draw out of the game in terms of the other 80 minutes and the chances we created. Again, creating them and scoring them are our achilles heel - we’ve scored one but we’ve created enough chances to score two or three but not done it. That wasn’t happening in the early part of the season.