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Match Day Thread Preston North End v Bristol City Deepdale 18/12/2020

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    LAST TIME OUT

    BARNSLEY 2 PRESTON NORTH END 1
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    BRISTOL CITY 0 MILLWALL 2
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    LAST SEASON

    PRESTON NORTH END 3 BRISTOL CITY 3

    FORM GUIDE

    PNE 9 BRISTOL CITY 8

    BRIZZLE NEWBIES

    Martin, Brunt, Williams and Mawson

    MACS VIEW

    A must win for the club, behind the scenes turmoil on contract talks does not suggest a happy club, performances in and out, style of football especially at home poor and plan B seems to be hoof it, anyway Brizzle have not beaten us for yonks tomorrow they will have a good chance to break that dreadful run of results against uS


    Thread dedicated to my cat Oliver who died this morning
    RIP LITTLE MAN
     
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    We’re already at 20 games for the season and we face our ninth of those in the last 28 days when the Lilywhites entertain Bristol City in front of the Sky Sports cameras at 8pm on Friday night.

    With Lancashire remaining in Tier 3, the game will remain behind closed doors, although the Robins will return home to a Tier 2 city, after Bristol was downgraded in Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s announcement on Thursday morning.

    Both sides are very familiar to one another, having faced each other many times in recent years, the last match at Deepdale being an entertaining 3-3 draw in the Autumn of last season.


    This year Dean Holden brings his side to Deepdale, having taken the reins on a permanent basis last summer and he will be looking to earn their first win in PR1 since February 2011.


    Team News
    Manager Alex Neil was without Ryan Ledson and Brad Potts for Tuesday’s trip to Barnsley; adding to the list of longer-term players who are already absent.

    That list has not eased any, with Ben Pearson (ankle), Patrick Bauer (Achilles), Louis Moult (ACL) and Billy Bodin (knee) all still out of the reckoning.

    Dean Holden also has issues. Famara Diédhiou saw red, after collecting two booking having come on as a substitute against Millwall in midweek and he will miss out, whilst Tomas Kalas faces a late fitness test after going off in the same game with a dead leg.

    Chris Brunt (calf) and Jamie Paterson (hip) both also missed the game with niggles and they too will need to be assessed before the Robins boss names his 20.

    Long term, they are without Jay Dasilva (tibia), Alfie Mawson (knee), Nathan Baker and Steven Sessegnon (both hamstring) and forward Andi Weimann (ACL).

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    Match Officials
    The match official for Friday’s live game at Deepdale has not taken charge of the Lilywhites since the game where Scott Sinclair scored his first goal for the club, versus Swansea City on 1st February.

    Experienced County Durham referee Geoff Eltringham will be the referee. As well as the Swans draw, last season he officiated the 3-1 win over Huddersfield Town back in November, as well as our draw with Nottingham Forest at the end of August 2019.

    The last time we saw the north east official here in Preston before that, was for the superb home win over Norwich City back in February 2019, before which he also refereed our final game of 2018, when we took a point from a fine performance against Aston Villa.

    Prior to that he was referee when the Lilywhites travelled to Ashton Gate and defeated Lee Johnson’s Bristol City in October 2018 and also North End’s trip to Elland Road back in September – making it four games in the 2018/19 campaign, having also officiated five games for Alex Neil’s side in the 2017/18 season!

    In that season, having taken charge our early season game at Derby County, Geoff also took charge of the Boxing Day trip to Barnsley, our January win at Nottingham Forest and March’s victory over Bristol City at Deepdale and finally our goalless draw with Norwich City in mid-April.

    He also refereed one North End game in 2016/17, the home clash with our Barnsley, having also done one the previous season, the 1-0 home win over Reading.

    The year prior to that he took charge of three PNE games, including the 2-0 home win over Peterborough United in March. Back in the 2013/14 campaign he also took charge of North End twice, both of those at Deepdale - the 1-1 draw with Tranmere Rovers back in November 2013 and then the goalless draw with Sheffield United in March.

    The County Durham official is an experienced referee who had taken charge of North End a number of other times in the past including the very first game after the departure of Graham Westley, when John Dreyer took the team against an in-form Bournemouth side and ran out 2-0 winners.

    He also looked after a thriller back in 2010, when North End overcame Crystal Palace 4-3 at Deepdale.

    Geoff has so far taken charge of 12 games this season, with 41 cautions and three red cards issued, and this will also be his first Robins game of the season. For the game, the referee will be assisted by Steven Meredith and Mark Jones, whilst experienced Championship official Darren Bond will act as the fourth official.
     
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    Sorry for your loss.

    As for NE, there seems to be chaos in the background.
     
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    Johnson pen 1 up
     
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    Get rid of Covid before City ever beat us
     
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    A first half penalty from Daniel Johnson gave the Lilywhites the points in a pulsating game at Deepdale.

    Johnson converted from the spot after Scott Sinclair had been upended by Tyler Moore, but both goalkeepers had to be in superb form to keep the score to 1-0.

    Alex Neil made two changes to the side that faced Barnsley in midweek, Andrew Hughes missing out through injury and Emil Riis dropping to the bench, with Sinclair and Paul Huntington coming in, with a switch back to a 4-2-3-1 formation.

    And the Lilywhites dominated the first half. Their first chance came on 18 minutes, with a great lay-off by Sean Maguire from Declan Rudd’s long ball, as Sinclair ran off him and sprinted 40 yards before firing left-footed effort via a deflection wide for a corner.

    More pressure came from the corner, with Maguire eventually spinning and shooting, saved low by Robins skipper Daniel Bentley.

    But North End had the chance to go in front on 20 minutes as Sinclair was threaded through by a brilliant Paul Gallagher pass and the winger was brought down by Tyler Moore – an ex-Blackpool loanee – referee Geoff Eltringham pointing to the spot.

    Johnson stepped up and sent Bentley the wrong way, powering the resulting spot kick into the
    bottom right-hand corner for his 49th career goal and to give his side a deserved lead.

    They had an excellent chance to double the lead in the final seconds of the three added-on minutes at the end of the half, as Tom Barkhuizen raced down the right and delivered a superb cross deep that Sinclair met with a left-footed volley back across goal, but Bentley got down well to save.

    The visitors, who had not had an attempt on goal in the first half, made a double change at the break, Dean Holden bringing on Antoine Semenyo and Tyreeq Bakinson for Moore and Han-Noah Massengo.

    The changes reinvigorated Bristol City and Declan Rudd needed to be on hand to make an excellent two-handed save to deny Irish international Callum O’Dowda an equaliser 11 minutes into the second period, diving away to his right to push the shot behind for a corner.

    A corner for North End, taken by substitute Joe Rafferty with seven minutes left, almost brought a second, as the ball came out, on the bounce, to Alan Browne, who powered a header back through a crowd, but it flashed just wide of the right-hand post.

    Two more subs, Emil Riis and Tom Bayliss, combined on the break, with the latter going close with a shot from 15 yards as the game entered the final five minutes, but at the other end a wonderful one-handed save by Rudd tipped over O’Dowda’s header from Semenyo’s cross with just three minutes left on the clock.

    At the start of five added-on minutes, Bentley kept his side in the game with a brilliant low stop to deny Riis a goal, after Sinclair had raced away from halfway and threaded the ball to the Dane on his left, only for the keeper to deny him with a superb fingertip save.

    Despite some late corners for the visitors, the Lilywhites took the game 1-0.

    Preston manager Alex Neil:

    "I thought we deserved it. First half we played some good stuff, we were better than them.

    "I thought the two best chances of the second half still fell to us, Declan has had a couple of saves to make but they weren't as clear cut chances as ours.

    "We did everything required to win games at this level, we passed the ball and created chances and then dug in and defended well when we needed to do, we did all those things well."

    Bristol City manager Dean Holden:

    "I'm hugely disappointed I thought we deserved something from the game.

    "First half there was not a lot in it, we got on the wrong end of a penalty decision, we were a little bit passive in that phase of play which led to the penalty.

    "Second half we took it to Preston, we had all the play, we've created chances and we've just not been able to take one of them."
     
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    A close run thing. Probably a draw a far result, but then there is no fairness in football.
     
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