Match Day Thread Millwall Deepdale 21/10/2023

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Preston North End v Millwall
Deepdale 12.30 pm 21/10/2023

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Manager

Adam Nicholas Barrett (born 29 November 1979) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central defender. During his career, which lasted from 1998 to 2017, he made 647 appearances in the Football League, including 308 for Southend United. He is currently caretaker manager at Millwall following the departure of Gary Rowett.

Born in Dagenham, Barrett began his career with Leyton Orient, but failed to make an appearance for them and moved on to sign for Plymouth Argyle, spending the 1999–2000 season with them. In 2000, he moved to Mansfield Town and then spent two years at Bristol Rovers before joining Southend United in 2004. He helped Southend from League Two to the Championship during a six-year stay at Roots Hall, and played over 250 times for the club before signing for Crystal Palace in 2010. He would go on to play for Leyton Orient (loan), AFC Bournemouth, Gillingham and AFC Wimbledon. In January 2015, he re-joined Southend United.


FORM GUIDE

PNE 5 MILLWALL 11

LAST TIME OUT

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INS AND OUTS

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HOT SHOTS

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Danger Man

Flemming as he got three against us last season however signing Joe Bryan is a masterstroke always rated him

A BIT OF PREVIOUS

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TBA

 

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Pre-Match Chat

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Hear from manager Ryan Lowe as he provides an injury update and previews his side’s clash with the Lions.

Who’s Available?

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For the first time in seven months, striker Ched Evans is back in contention to feature after recovering from a potentially life-changing medical condition.

There will be a number of players missing, though, with Ali McCann and Jack Whatmough sidelined through calf and hamstring injuries respectively, while Andrew Hughes (calf) is also expected to miss out.

Long-term absentee Emil Riis has suffered a setback which may prolong his rehabilitation for another few weeks, but there’s better new for Calvin Ramsay who is set to return to PNE from parent club Liverpool on Monday.

Opposition Focus

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After four years in charge at the Den, manager Gary Rowett parted company with the club by mutual consent on Wednesday evening, with the Lions currently sat 15th in the Sky Bet Championship.

During his reign, Millwall consistently pushed for a place in the division’s top six, however fell just short, and they’ll be hoping to make it into the Play-Offs under Rowett’s successor.

For the time being, Adam Barrett has been placed in caretaker charge, with Paul Robinson assisting, and they may look to change things up for the trip to Deepdale.

A Recent Clash





North End’s last home victory over Millwall came in December 2018, courtesy of goals from Alan Browne, Tom Barkhuizen and Andrew Hughes.

Match Officials

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Referee: Matthew Donohue
Assistant Referees: Matthew Jones and Sam Lewis
Fourth Official: Daniel Middleton

Matthew Donohue will take charge of a PNE match for the second time this season on Saturday, after previously refereeing North End’s 2-0 victory against Stoke City in September.

Donohue has shown 39 yellow cards during nine matches so far this term.

 

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Preston North End 1 Frokjaer-Jensen Milllwall 1 Flemming
PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Lindsay, Cunningham; Potts, Whiteman, Ledson (Browne, 73), Brady (Millar, 63); Holmes (Osmajić, 63), Frøkjær (Woodburn, 84); Keane (Evans, 73). Subs not used: Cornell, Bauer, Stewart, Best.
Millwall line-up: Białkowski; Harding, Cooper, Wallace; Norton-Cuffy, Campbell (Mitchell, 82), De Norre, Bryan; Flemming, Emakhu (Longman, 69); Bradshaw. Subs not used: Trueman, McNamara, Saville, Esse, Leahy, Honeyman, Adom-Malaki.

Attendance: 14,427 (698 Millwall fans).

Referee: Mr M Donohue.

Saturday dinner time 12.30 kick offs are fairly notorious for being poor this was no exception although it did start well, it went down hill fairly quickly the second half being particularly pap.
We started quickly Holmes had already had a shot when a minute later Storey went on a run or stroll through a very static Lions defence, his cross was going to Keane but ended up at the feet of Frokjaer-Jensen who found the bottom right hand corner. Could have been two moments later Holmes shot straight at the keeper.
The first sign of danger for North End came from a break from a home corner, four on two for the Lions, Norton-Cuffey in acres of space, could have passed by shot deflected by a defender, Woodman punched the ball upwards landed against the bar, danger was cleared, although not for long.
Again, nearly doubled the lead but Brady was denied by a great clearance by a defender as he was about to slide the ball home. Not long afterwards Lions level, zero tackle put in by our midfield, ball to Flemming edge of the box past Woodman level.
To be honest they probably deserved it, certain gave them the edge, they were the only side in it for the rest of the half, corners, long throws they went for the jugular but didn't find it and at half time it was all square.
One interesting fact emerged was that South Africa had managed to rack up well over 200 runs in the time we sat down 30 minutes before kick off and half time.
The second half was a non event the Lions sat deep and were content to try and catch us on the break, don't recall either keeper being forced into action as the game as a spectacle died. And by the looks of it should have had a penalty late on but some you get some you don't
There was a welcome return for a substitute appearance by Ched Evans after 7 months out but that was about that. Take a point Saints on Wednesday night, will be a different type of game to this one.

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Locals are getting restless about Ryan Lowe and some severe criticism of his team selections. Abig test will be on Wednesday night against Soton who have seemed to have got over their relegation blues.