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Derby County: Ryan Conway discusses Martyn Waghorn’s current lack of confidence

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Derby County journalist Ryan Conway has been sharing his thoughts on Derby attacker Martyn Waghorn and his current form. 

This comes after Conway recently uploaded a video onto his YouTube channel where he spoke about a number of topics concerning the Midlands club.

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On the topic of Derby’s recent 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the Championship and Waghorn’s performance, in particular, Conway had this to say on the matter.

He said: “Waghorn doesn’t look like he’s playing with a lot of confidence at the moment and I feel for him.

“There was a moment [in the] 94th minute, the ball sits up for him and it’s a little bit awkward but a striker, like a striker in-form and with confidence just hits that first time whether it [gets] blocked or goes in or whatever, they just hit it because that ball can go anywhere.

“He tries to take it down and take a touch and [Wayne] Rooney on the touchline just slaps his hands and he spins away, throws his arms up because that was a chance, he has to pull the trigger on that.

“I think he’s good, I really like Waghorn, but it just doesn’t look like he’s playing with a lot of confidence right now.”

The 30-year-old, who is currently valued at £2.7 million, signed for Derby back in the 2018 summer transfer window from Ipswich Town for a fee of £5.04 million.

Since then, the striker has made 100 appearances for the Rams in which he has managed to score 27 goals and provide nine assists along the way (per Transfermarkt).

TIF Thoughts on Ryan Conway’s comments on Waghorn…

Even though he came on as a substitute in the second half of the match against Wycombe, the fact that Waghorn earned himself a poor match rating of 5.76/10, the lowest of any Derby player that made an appearance in the game, this shows that he may not be playing at the top of his game with much confidence at this moment in time, as Conway said in his video.

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With Derby sitting in the relegation zone of the Championship table, they will need their attacking players such as Waghorn to be the ones to score goals and get results for the team if they want to stay in the division.

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