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Latest Derby County news from Derbyshire Live brings you how the players fared as the Rams moved back up into the play-off positions.

Can't fault his effort and is playing the hardest role in the team up front on his own. David McGoldrick: Back in the side after illness and showed one or two mesmerising bits of quality that showed he is a class apart at this level. Louie Sibley: Offered support in attack but defensively he produced a brilliant tackle to deny Brophy just as he was about to pull the trigger. Eiran Cashin: Playing so well at this moment in time and this was another game when he won plenty of his duels and made a couple of excellent blocks. Played a key role in the goal too. But Warne's side were not made to rue that miss as they held on for all three points that took them up to fifth in the table.

On-loan Everton teenager Lewis Dobbin's first senior league goal wraps up a 1-0 home win for Derby against Cambridge.

Assisted by Louie Sibley following a set piece situation. Post update - Shots - 3Forsyth - 1Wildsmith But the 19-year-old attacker was more clinical when presented with a 57th-minute opportunity to break the deadlock after Korey Smith had sent Mendez-Laing racing down the right.

Spirited Cambridge United have nothing to show for their efforts at the Pride Park Stadium.

The visitors started the second half in a similarly organised fashion, but their resistance was eventually broken 12 minutes after the restart. The opening 45 minutes were as professional as it gets from a United perspective. His first work of the evening came in the 11th minute when David McGoldrick switched the ball out wide to the right from a central position for Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, who drove at makeshift left-back James Brophy before crossing for Lewis Dobbin to clip his shot straight at the U’s goalkeeper.

Lewis Dobbin scored his first ever senior goal in league competition as Derby County beat Cambridge United 1-0 on Friday evening.

Mendez-Laing did brilliantly to stand up a cross for the striker who timed his run perfectly and fired an unstoppable header past Mannion to put Paul Warne's side in front. The midfielder ghosted in between the two Cambridge central defenders and got on the end of a Nathaniel Mendez-Laing cross but his header was well held by Mannion. It looked like it was going to be two soon after when those two again burst through on the Cambridge defence but with a two on one situation developing, the U's defender did brilliantly to get back and deny the Rams from doubling their lead.