The 20-year-old defender thought he has scored his first professional goal when he steered home a Harry Wilson's delivery after 36 minutes to give his side the lead, but the goal will eventually go down as an own goal after taking a slight deflection off Oldham's Sam Graham before bobbling in.
"Good win and obviously happy to be in the next round and to get a clean sheet, a better performance from the weekend's result", he told Rams TV.
Replays, however showed the final ball did touch Graham and thus, the Nigerian is still in search of a goal of his own since turning professional.
"Last year, I got denied a similar type of goal as well and I think it will be poor from them to tear this one off me."
"Yeah.. I 've been working on deliveries from wide areas and focusing on getting in the right positions in the box.
''I just felt the ball(Wilson's delivery) was coming to the middle so I made my run in and luckily, the ball landed to me.''
While he was on from start to finish for the pulsating encounter, the Rams eventually ran out 2-0 winners to move into the round two of the competition; another Chelsea loanee, Mason Mount with the second goal of the evening.
Emmanuel Chinaza
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