An Antoine Sibierski strike just 43 seconds after his arrival as an 81st-minute substitute for Wigan was enough to condemn Derby to a seventh successive Premier League defeat at Pride Park.

Although Jewell handed debuts to Robbie Savage, Laurent Robert, Hossam Ghaly and Emanuel Villa following a transfer spree this week, the wretched Rams could still not muster a rare victory.

Instead, with 16 matches remaining, they are 13 points off safety and edging closer to a rapid return to the Championship.

Yet Jewell, who quit Wigan after saving them from the drop on the final day of last season, firmly believes the tide will turn.

"I've no regrets about leaving Wigan. They are a decent side, and I've maintained that all along," said Jewell.

"I'm honestly enjoying my time here, although I'm obviously not enjoying losing, but I've a long-term vision.

"When I look back on my time at Wigan we lost 5-1 at Wrexham in the LDV Vans Trophy, and we were bottom of the old League one at the time.

"Now while it looks like we're going to go down here, there's a lot more to be excited about in the future for me.

"To go forward you have to take knocks. I've taken them in the past, yet I've ended up being successful.

"I'm taking them now, and hopefully I can end up being successful here too."

Regardless of the new faces on show, Derby managed only one effort on target in 90 minutes, and that a 35-yard Robert free-kick that was easy pickings for Chris Kirkland.

Jewell knows it was just not good enough, adding: "We haven't won since I've been here, and I'll take the blame for that.

"It's never great when you are playing relegation-style football, but we just can't grind out a result.

"Nothing's happening for us. We're disjointed, not playing with any confidence, not moving the ball.

"We're just a very average team at the moment. In fact we're probably worse than that, and that's not knocking the players.

"But it's one thing after another, and it's a very tough time to be a Derby supporter right now.

"We're taking a pasting, but we'll stick our shoulders back and next season come back unrecognisable."

Jewell has taken one point from 24 since his arrival, while it is 12 points from eight matches for Latics manager Steve Bruce as his side continue to edge away from the relegation zone.

They had the better of the chances in the first half, with their task seemingly made easier when Derby centre-back Claude Davis was dismissed for two bookable offences just before the hour.

Yet Wigan struggled against 10 men until Sibierski buried a 22-yard drive to end a personal five-month goal drought and give Wigan their first away league win of the season.

"When he [Sibierski] went off last week on a stretcher, I thought he was going to be out for two months," said Bruce.

"However, he had a go in training yesterday, confident there was nothing on the scans.

"That's the little break you need, that one of your big players like him was not seriously injured last week, and it was a great first touch in the end.

"To be fair we should have been out of sight in the first half because in the Premier League you don't get the chances like we had.

"When you miss those chances you think, 'Are we going to get punished?', but thankfully we didn't and the better team won."