I just felt we looked a really young vibrant team

Last updated : 30 November 2008 By Tony Scholes
Jewell was far from happy with the way his side defended in the first half as the Clarets wrapped it up with three goals as his after match comments confirm. "I couldn't believe what I was seeing to be honest," he said.

"At home we're a different team and earlier on in the season we were OK away, but at the moment we are getting beat far too easily which isn't good enough. It is too easy to say that we are missing players.

"We are not doing the unglamorous things, not stopping crosses coming in, not winning enough headers and not winning enough tackles. If you don't do the fundamental basics then nothing else comes.

"It was like a crossing and finishing session for them, it was so easy at times, and we were the same at Ipswich. We have to get back to doing what we are doing at home.

"At least in the second half we showed a bit more. We changed our formation and we had a few good opportunities. Whether Burnley took their foot off the gas I don't know. But we are not going to hide away from the first half, which was an embarrassment.

In the second half we should have got a little bit of pride back for the supporters but they are not going to accept that today and I agree with them. I am not going to accept that either."

Whilst Jewell was far from happy with Derby's performance there was no doubt Owen Coyle was very happy with the way the Clarets played as we got back to winning ways following the disappointment of last week.

He said: "We were very disappointed, for a number of reasons, with the home game to Doncaster and what happened at Barnsley, but we carried on where we left off against Barnsley and that's what I asked.

"It was important, going into a run of having three of our next four games at home, where we've been terrific, that we showed that and replicated the standards that we've got to before. I think we did that. Even without the goals some of the energy and movement we had was terrific.

"Somebody would get the ball and there would be four or five options, such was the demand and energy to get on the ball and help their team mate. Within the goals we scored there were terrific pieces of movement and terrific finishing. I just felt we looked a really young vibrant team, full of energy and full of desire and passion.

"Derby were always going to come out a wee but in the game, but I thought we realised if we did our job right and concentrated then we'd win being in that position at 3-0."

Again Coyle spoke about striker Martin Paterson who, for the second successive game, scored twice. "I just felt that little edge was missing and I just felt he needed a rest," Coyle said.

"I've been there myself as a player and he has come back and showed everything that he's capable of, and then some. One of the reasons I brought Martin to the club was that I felt I could improve him and make him a bigger asset for our football club and improve our team.

"He'll tell you there's not a day goes by that we don't chat. We do take time to try to nurture him and bring him on."

And then there was Kevin McDonald who scored his first Burnley goal. Coyle said of the 20-year-old Scot: "I am delighted for Kevin too. He was only out of the team through injury and Joey came in and performed terrifically and kept Kevin at bay.

"We get lucky with our decisions sometimes, but we just felt today was the right one to bring Kevin back in. I've known he's a goalscoring midfielder and it's probably been a source of frustration for myself that it has taken until now for his first goal.

"But at the age he's at, he's ony going to get beter and that augurs well for the club."