It also took them eight points clear of United, whose second successive loss – after managing back-to-back wins in mid-October – has them languishing third-from-bottom after 13 games.<\/p>\n
Morris compounded what has been a miserable start to the Blades’ season breaking the first-half deadlock with a glancing header from a Joe Ward corner.<\/p>\n
Ben Brereton Diaz went close to doubling the visitors’ advantage against the side he featured on loan for last season, but the Chile international was denied by goalkeeper Cooper.<\/p>\n
A fine tackle from Matt Clarke on Callum O’Hare inside the box just before the break ensured the Rams held a slender half-time lead.<\/p>\n
An aimless backpass from Sydie Peck gifted Morris the chance to pickpocket possession to score his second of the afternoon a minute after the restart.<\/p>\n
The former Luton Town, Norwich City and Barnsley forward then made it a milestone afternoon with a successful spot-kick to complete the first hat-trick haul of a career that has spanned 11 years and 10 different clubs.<\/p>\n
He would go on to be substituted off to wild cheers from the Derby fans late on, but not before O’Hare had grabbed a consolation goal for the hosts after meeting a long throw into the box before wriggling into space to score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It also took them eight points clear of United, whose second successive loss – after managing back-to-back wins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-256111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}