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  1. themaclad

    themaclad Well-Known Member

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    Preston North End v Reading @ Deepdale 19/8/2017

    After three away games the lads return to home turf with a game against last years beaten play off finalists Huddersfield Town after losing a penalty shoot out.
    The Royals last visit to Deepdale ended with them getting hammered 3-0 and it was actually a surprise to me that they made the finals as they were one of the poorer teams to arrive at Deepdale last season.
    Like us the Royals have four points, winning on Wednesday night against those hapless saps from Villa Park, away from home they have only played at QPR were they lost by 2-0. Since last season they have lost keeper Ali Al Habsi who probably did more than anyone else to keep them at the higher end of the table, they also indebited to Kermogant who scored 18 league goals however he is injured at the moment and mpore than likely will not play at Deepdale, need to keep an eye on Barrows who has a bit of space, surprisingly he was let go by Swansea, also have Swift who always seem to cause us a few problems.

    Last time out against the Villa

    Reading: Mannone, Gunter, McShane (c), Moore, Blackett, Van den Berg (Evans 70), Swift, Kelly, Barrow (Beerens 77), Popa (McCleary 70), Clement.
    Unused subs: Jaakkola, Mendes, Bacuna, Ilori.

    Given our inability to score at the moment the boss has said he will freshen the side up, apparently Gallagher's head knock has removed his memory of Tuesday's match sadly it is still in mine. Early days yet however in my view we have four points which considering our early fixtures is a bonus, if we have seven by Saturday night consider it highly successful.

    T'other fixtures
    Fri
    Bur v Bir
    Sat
    Villa v Nor
    Bol v Der
    Brizzle v Mill
    Ful v Wendies
    Ips v Bees
    Trees v Smoggies
    QPR V Hull
    Blades v Toby Tyke
    Graysonland v Marching All Together
    Portugal v Colin








    Neil Looking To Freshen Things Up





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    Manager Alex Neil may look to make changes to his side for this weekend's visit of Reading.

    The North End boss admitted his side lacked their usual energy on Tuesday night at Pride Park, and will bear that in mind when selecting his side to face the Royals on Saturday at Deepdale.

    Speaking to iFollow PNE ahead of the game, Neil said: "I think mentally as well as physically we looked a bit jaded in the game in comparison to what we'd done in the previous two matches. It's certainly something we will be looking at, we willl see how the players respond in training and different things and I will have an eye on that looking forward to the game Saturday."

    The manager has been pleased with his side on the whole in the league this season, and is preparing to take on Jaap Stam's Reading side next, and feels his side have a good opportunity to add their points tally on home turf.

    "I think we've performed well in the main, I think we've had two really good performances out of three. At Derby I think we did ok but not quite enough to win the match, we were disappointed to lose it on a penalty but we've got another great opportunity now to go and try and get another three points on the board.

    "I think their style has obviously changed significantly, they make a lot of passes, try and retain the ball, their possession stats have been really high since Jaap has been in there.

    "I think it's certainly a team that you can go and get at and you can try and hurt them. Preston played really well against them last season and that's a game that I will be watching before we play and we will set up and go and try to win the game.

    "Hopefully the fans will be quite pleased with how we've equipped ourselves so far, we've played some difficult games so far and we've done well so hopefully they will turn out in their droves and support us and hopefully cheer across the line."
    The gaffer will have Ben Pearson available after he served a one-match suspension after his sending off at Leeds United, and the manager has reiterated the midfielder's importance to his side.

    "I don't think we've got a natural sitting midfield player like Ben which we are trying to address at the moment.

    "I think he is a key player for us, when he is missing we do lack something when he's not there.

    "It's a great boost for us, he's an important player for us and he does a specific role so we are hoping that he will be bright and ready to go."

    Tuesday night's game saw a few casualties in the form of Paul Gallagher and Greg Cunningham, Gallagher with a knock to the back of the head and Cunningham with a knee injury. Ahead of the weekend, the manager
    gave an update on the pair and is hopeful that stand-in skipper Greg will be available.
    "Paul has got concusion and a bit of whiplash at the moment so we just need to monitor him and hopefully he gets turned around pretty quickly.

    "Greg is another one we need to keep an eye on, it's certainly not anything serious, but we are just hoping that he will be fully recovered for the game on Saturday."

    Jaap determined for more points at Preston




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    Jaap Stam says his team are determined to come away from Preston North End with all three points this weekend.

    Royals go into Saturday's match unbeaten in our last three matches in all competitions, with a first Championship victory of the season secured on Tuesday night against Aston Villa.

    Despite winning against the Lilywhites at Madejski Stadium last season, Stam says a 3-0 defeat at Deepdale shows the quality of opponent his side will be facing on Saturday.

    "We don't look at that result because of last season, 'we lost there so now we need to win,' we know and everybody knows that every game, especially away games, are very, very tough," he said.

    "It'll be very hard to beat them, they know how we play. They did last season and they did it very well.

    "They're very aggressive going forward, we need to know that they're probably going to be doing that as well.


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    "We need to be prepared for that, but we will work very hard for ourselves to get a result."

    Stam says his side will do whatever it takes to take all three points on Saturday afternoon at Deepdale, after Tuesday night's first victory of the season.

    "We want to do that in a certain way of playing, if we can't do that in the way we want to play then we'll do it in a different way.

    "That's what we're looking for, and we are warned by what happened last season."
     
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    barnetpne Well-Known Member

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    'Freshen things up'? He should have done that on Tuesday night, starting with Harrop and Maguire instead of Robinsson and Barkhuisen.
     
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    Stat Attack: Reading




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    Below are a list of stats about our opponents at Deepdale on Saturday and the particular date of the game we are playing on:


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    Although Reading did not make their first league appearance at Deepdale until November 1926, they had previously visited our club for an FA Cup tie in 1894 and it turned out to be something of a mismatch. Whilst we fell well short of equalling our record 26-0 scoreline in the competition set seven years earlier versus Hyde, we still managed to rack up 18 goals without reply against our amateur opponents.

    • There were four hat-tricks in the above match, as there were in the 26-0 win against Hyde, and one of them was scored by John Barton, who was the team’s trainer and only played due to an injury crisis!
    • We continued our high-scoring trend when league matches commenced 32 years later, with our first seven matches seeing us score 26 times, whilst only conceding six goals, although these games were spread over 51 years. A goalless draw in 1981 was therefore somewhat unexpected on history alone and is the only blank scoreline in 26 games here.
    • We have had by far the better of these fixtures to date, with 17 wins, five draws and only four defeats, although two of those defeats have come in the last six games here.

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      On this date: 19th August
    • Saturday marks the 70th birthday of former striker Gerry Ingram and he recorded a classic hat-trick (scoring with his left foot, right foot and head) in our 4-1 home victory over Reading in September 1970. Gerry ended the season as our leading scorer as we won the third division championship under manager Alan Ball.
    • Former left-sided midfielder Paul Parry also celebrates his birthday on Saturday (37) whilst Alfie Biggs and Dave Barber made their North End debuts on this date in 1961 in a 4-1 defeat at Luton Town. Alfie scored 24 goals in 49 appearances for North End, but couldn’t settle in the north and returned to Bristol Rovers a year after leaving for Deepdale.
    • Our solitary victory on this date was our first home game back at this level, having been promoted in 2000 under David Moyes. We faced Sheffield United, who returned across the Pennines on the wrong end of a 3-0 scoreline. Michael Appleton and Jon Macken scored in the first six minutes, before Macken’s second after the break sealed the points to make it back-to-back wins at the start of that campaign.

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      Last Five Clashes At Deepdale
    PNE 3 (Barkhuizen, 2; Horgan) Reading 0, 11th March 2017
    PNE 1 (Garner, pen) Reading 0, 12th December 2015
    PNE 1 (Treacy) Reading 1 (Karacan), 2nd October 2010
    PNE 1 (Parkin, pen) Reading 2 (Church, Kebe), 29th September 2009
    PNE 2 (Ingimarsson (og), Elliott) Reading 1 (Hunt, pen), 18th October 2008


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    They are to blame
    Preston North End v Reading
    ANDREW MADLEY
    James Wilson and Robert Merchant
    Fourth Official: Richard Clark
     
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    Preston North End 1 Reading 0 Att 11174
    Hugill 22

    PNE
    22 Chris Maxwell GK
    14 Darnell Fisher 38' DF
    32 Joshua Earl DF
    23 Paul Huntington © DF
    20 Ben Davies DF
    11 Daniel Johnson MF
    24 Sean Maguire 88' MF
    4 Ben Pearson 12' MF
    10 Josh Harrop 72' MF
    29 Tom Barkhuizen 86' MF
    9 Jordan Hugill 22' FW
    Substitutes
    1 Matt Hudson Sub
    25 Kevin O'Connor Sub
    17 Thomas Spurr Sub
    2 Marnick Vermijl Sub
    8 Alan Browne 72' Sub
    27 Stephy Mavididi 88' Sub
    37 Callum Robinson 86' Sub

    Reading
    1 Vito Mannone GK
    2 Chris Gunter 90+2' DF
    24 Tyler Blackett DF
    5 Paul McShane © DF
    6 Liam Moore 19' DF
    19 Leandro Bacuna MF
    17 Modou Barrow MF
    38 Liam Kelly 34' MF
    10 John Swift 25' MF
    25 Adrian Popa MF
    22 Pelle Clement 68' FW
    Substitutes
    31 Anssi Jaakkola Sub
    20 Tiago Ilori Sub
    7 Roy Beerens Sub
    8 George Evans 25'45+1' Sub
    12 Garath McCleary 68' Sub
    21 Stephen Quinn Sub
    9 Joseph Mendes 34' Sub


    Only disappointment of the game was North End's inability to score more than once in 21 efforts at goal, however that is the only downside as we registered our second home win of the season over a Reading side who had a bit of the ball and did absolutely Jack s**t with it.
    Four changes to the home side with debuts for Harrop and Earl, started off well with the visitors defence not looking to great especially when Pearson ran 50 plus yards with the ball having his shot saved by Mannone in the visitors goal, within about a minute of this he was booked again which is becoming an every match occurence although some sympathy with him as Earl was clattered by a tackle which was probably worse and resulted in nothing.
    Reading were not helped in the first half by injuries to Swift and Kelly, when the goal came lots of credit to Barkuizen for not giving up on a lost cause and Maguire for his header back across goal to Hugill who had time to light a cigar before ramming the ball home.
    Reading rallied briefly with Mndes forcing Maxwell into a save. Should have doubled the lead on half time but Mannone produced a good save from Maguire.
    The second half Reading got into the game but in truth created little for all their possession, whilst we missed numerous chances to put the game to bed, Hugill, Barkuizen and Maguire being the culprits. Popa starting to cause us problems but the back four kept them out. Young sub Mavididi had a glorious chance at the end hit the keeper but the points were deservedly ours.
    The away support numbered about 250 in a disappointing gate of 11000.
    Plus points Earl, Davies, Harrop, but my MOM was Johnson outstanding covered every blade a grass and should how good a player he really is not bad for 50,000.
    Next up Boro away absolute piece of cake for the boys.
     
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    Forgot to add that the average of the side that started yesterday was 23 which is probably one of the youngest sides that have started in a lon long time.
    Anyway here is what the respective gaffers said.

    Preston manager Alex Neil:

    "I'm extremely satisfied. I thought we were the better side and created numerous opportunities. The only disappointment is that it finished 1-0.

    "It was an incredible effort from the lads. I thought they were top, top drawer.

    "We worked extremely hard, our shape was excellent and we had a lot of individual great performances."

    Reading boss Jaap Stam:

    "If you play against a side like Preston you have to bring everything to the game including physique, pace, aggressiveness.

    "Hopefully you can play your own game. We didn't get what we expected from it.

    "I am not happy in how we played and what we did. We gave a lot of balls away and that brings them into the game to create opportunities."
     
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    Mr Stam forgot to mention 'skill' with physique, pace & aggressiveness. According to reports NE were all over Reading like a rash!
     
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    They were poor
     
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