Post-Match Verdict: 'We Are Lacking Cutting-Edge' - Warne

Derby County Head Coach Paul Warne believes his side were 'lacking the cutting edge' they required after falling to a 1-0 loss at Shrewsbury Town in Sky Bet League One on Saturday.

The Rams fell to their first defeat since early September at the Croud Meadow despite creating a number of chances to both take the lead and also equalise, while Tom Bayliss also missed a first half penalty for the hosts.

Speaking to RamsTV after the match, Warne gave his verdict on the performance.

On the result...

I'm disappointed. I though we weren't aggressive enough in the first half and rode our luck when they missed the penalty. In the second half they got their goal and when we made three changes I felt they all had a positive effect. We created enough chances to maybe win comfortably - but we didn't take them.

There wasn't loads wrong in our performance but we created enough chances to win and we didn't even take any to even get a point. Sometimes away from home you've just got to take your point and your medicine. It feels like we could have been out there still now and we wouldn't have scored.

On not scoring goals...

I think today's game is a microcosm of our season, really. Good teams find a way to win even when they aren't playing great - and I don't think we played bad today - but we didn't find a way to score.

I don't think the lads lack confidence but we have to take chances if we want to win a game and we can't ask our goalkeeper to bail us out in every game. Everyone has a responsibility but not all of our chances fell to our strikers today and it's just disappointing. We are lacking that cutting-edge to our play.

On keeping level-headed after a loss...

There were parts of our play today that were good, very good at times.

We do have a game on Tuesday against Exeter at Pride Park, so I'm not going to rip the group open. The bench is the strongest it has ever been and the lads that came on should be able change the game and they did.

I could be doing this interview and we'd have scored in the 75th and the 89th minute and we'd be saying what a great game we played.

We have to do better though and the longer the game goes on and we don't score, things become difficult.

We came here with the intention to win and the lads will lick the wounds, like I will tonight, and we'll hopefully have a performance on Tuesday tonight that sees everyone go home happy.

We have to be more aggressive and we have to be more ruthless. It needs to change because we are losing points and dropping points unnecessarily. Their goalkeeper got their Man-of-the-Match award today, which seems to happen a lot against us, but we need that to change because we are dropping points when our performances possibly deserve more.