Bluebirds boss Erol Bulut watched on from the stands as he served a touchline ban with Cardiff still bottom.
The visitors spurned a glorious chance to draw level shortly after Derby took the lead as Jacob Widell Zetterstrom kept out Dimitrios Goutas’s effort from close range and Cardiff ’s assistant coach Omer Riza admits the Bluebirds need to improve.

STANDS: Erol Bulut
Riza said: “We needed to stop leaking goals and we’ve done it again, we’ve conceded a scrappy goal which puts us on the back foot and we’re chasing the game, we need to do more.
“Football is about chances and scoring goals,...