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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 23824701" data-attributes="member: 158020">Chelsea 3 Derby County 2: Nightmare  defending denies Lampard on homecoming  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/10/31/20/5630730-6339219-image-a-15_1541018835963.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Chelsea overcame a Halloween fright on Frank Lampard's return as two own  goals cost Derby County in a 3-2 loss in the EFL Cup on Wednesday.Impressive in  beating Manchester United in the third round, Lampard's young side were the  architects of their own downfall in London as Chelsea loanee Fikayo Tomori and  Richard Keogh both put through their own net inside 21 minutes.    The hosts were not immune to horror moments at the back, with Jack Marriott  and Martyn Waghorn on target in a thrilling five-goal first half that concluded  with Cesc Fabregas restoring his team's lead.   And it proved to be the winner as the upright denied David Nugent late on  and left Blues legend Lampard to contemplate the unusual feeling of a Stamford  Bridge defeat.Tomori and Mason Mount were granted special dispensation to  feature against their parent club, yet the Rams might have wished that was not  the case when Davide Zappacosta's cross struck the former's standing leg and  diverted in for the fifth-minute opener.   The inexplicable error was quickly forgotten as Marriott, a scorer against  United, capitalised on Gary Cahill's slip to drive an unerring low finish across  Willy Caballero.    A stumbling Waghorn passed up a one-on-one chance to complete a quickfire  turnaround and Derby punished themselves through more calamitous defending.In  eerily similar circumstances to the first, the experienced Keogh sliced another  right-sided Zappacosta cross past a bewildered Scott Carson.   Still, the visitors were just as dangerous going forward as they were in  their own box and snatched a second equaliser after 27 minutes, Mount squaring  for a Waghorn tap-in.But they failed to plug the leaks and it was no surprise  that Fabregas forced home the third for Maurizio Sarri's side from close range  in the 41st minute.   A quieter second half eventually livened up, with substitute Nugent turning  the last of three Derby openings into the base of the far post, forcing  Lampard to settle for the consolation of receiving the adulation of the  supporters, who consistently sung his name.</blockquote>

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