Preston North End v Millwall Championship 3pm kick off 23/92017 A first visit for quite a while for the Lions, having noted that the last time was a goalless draw in 2010, newly promoted this season they have had a decent ish start they are presently 16th ahead of those big clubs that Sky appear to love Sunderland and Birmingham. They seem to have been slightly unlucky not to have more points this season as they appear to be dominating in some games except for putting the ball in the net. They beat Leeds last week at the New Den 1-0. Away from home they have lost three, drawn at QRP and Bristol City. They don't have any stellar names however one thing will be certain is that they will be competitive, in fact given both sides are top two in the bookings table this season this could be rather a tasty encounter. I suspect Gregory is still serving a suspension following his red card at Loftus Road, however they still have the evergreen Morison upmfront as well as ex North Ender McLaughin who seems to have slotted in well at full back(always rated him) Only doubt for North End is who will be full back as Woods had a thight injury and Fisher a groin strain so Vermijl may make a start. There is a possibility that Ben I've got a yellow card every match Pearson may return. Tough game this one and I doubt there will be a single report of the match which will mention Arry Redcrap, which happened last week, you would have had to search far and wide for any repot on the football in that match. Stat Attack: Millwall please log in to view this image Millwall have been somewhat irregular visitors to Deepdale over the years, this only their 30th league game here since their first in October 1928. please log in to view this image Each club recorded three wins in the first six meetings up to 1934, but it was to be 32 years before hostilities resumed in 1966. Since then, the results have gone mostly in our favour, with 14 wins and only four defeats for North End, whilst the points have been shared on five occasions. The result of the Lions first trip here might have suggested the fixture would be one full of goals, but despite our visitors coming out on top 4-3 in a seven goal thriller, goals have been in short supply since. We have failed to score in seven games, whilst Millwall have drawn a blank ten times, although there have only been three scoreless draws. We have outscored our guests by 45 goals to 28, but neither is a good haul from 29 matches. A few notable players have appeared for both clubs, amongst them Sam Allardyce, Ian Bogie, Patrick Agyemang, Ricardo Fuller and Sean St Ledger. Bogie and Chaplow moved from Deepdale to Millwall, whilst Danny Dichio made the journey in the opposite direction. Kevin Davies also spent a short spell on loan with the Lions before leaving Southampton for Bolton. On This Date One of the stars of our fine side of the late 1950s, winger Sammy Taylor, was born on this date in 1933. Sammy moved south from Falkirk in 1955 and scored 51 in 166 appearances over the next six years, as well as creating many for Tom Finney when he moved to centre forward. He also played for Carlisle and Southport before retiring in 1965. please log in to view this image Russ Wilcox, who was a rock at the heart of the defence in our promotion side of 1996, made his debut 22 years ago today in a 2-2 draw with Fulham at Craven Cottage. Fifty years ago today, striker Derek Temple played his first game for North End after moving from Goodison Park to Deepdale. We recorded big home wins against clubs who are no longer in the Football League on this date in previous years. Way back in 1893, we beat east Lancashire neighbours Darwen 4-1 whilst in 1989, we put five goals past Chester without reply in a match that featured Brian Mooney’s only hat-trick for North End. Last Five Games At Deepdale Preston North End 0 Millwall 0, 27th Nov 2010 Preston North End 2 (Agyemang, Davis) Millwall 0, 14th Jan 2006 Preston North End 1(Lewis) Millwall 1 (Hayles), 13th Nov 2004 Preston North End 1 (Davis) Millwall 2 (Ifill, Cahill), 21st Feb 2004 Preston North End 2 (Lewis, Cartwright) Millwall 1 (Kinet), 8th Feb 2003 Ref Watch: Millwall please log in to view this image Lancashire referee Darren Bond takes charge of his first game at Deepdale this weekend. please log in to view this image Although he had done numerous friendlies and other games involving the Lilywhites, last season was the first time he took charge of competitive fixtures, as he refereed the two home 1-1 draws with Burton Albion and Nottingham Forest. Saturday will be his 11th game of the season, having so far issued 35 cautions and one red card in the previous ten games, the last of which was Tuesday night’s Carabao Cup tie between Burnley and Leeds at Turf Moor. He has taken charge of Millwall previously, the first time being in February 2013, when Peterborough United won 5-1 at The Den, as well as a 2-1 win at Middlesbrough in April 2014 and a 1-0 loss at Bradford in March 2016. Darren will be assisted by Mark Jones and David Avent, with Ricky Wootton as the fourth official. Finally I have to pass on my regards from Eric Le Merde to some of the Lions fans on here with to quote word for word that we have to give you a good hammering, his words not mine
Thanks mate, Burnley reckon the ref was biased towards Leeds last week and watch out for Wallace and Gromit
Oh one last thing traditionally if we mention Millwall in a post we round it off with the following sign off
Preston North End 0 Millwall 0 Preston 22Maxwell 14Fisher Booked at 84mins 23Huntington Booked at 45mins 20Davies 32Earl 11Johnson Substituted for Robinson at 82'minutes 19Welsh 29Barkhuizen Booked at 17mins Substituted for Mavididi at 68'minutes 24Maguire 10Harrop Substituted fo rBrowne at 60'minutes 9Hugill Substitutes 7Horgan 8Browne 15Woods 17Spurr 27Mavididi 28Hudson 37Robinson Millwall 1Archer 2McLaughlin 17Webster 4Hutchinson 3Meredith 14Wallace Booked at 78mins Substituted fo rRomeo at 90+5'minutes 6Williams 23Saville 22O'Brien Substituted for Tunnicliffe at 85'minutes 20Morison 10 Onyedinma Substituted for Ferguson at 55'minutes Substitutes 5Craig 11Ferguson 12Romeo 16Martin 18Tunnicliffe 21Twardek 35Cooper Referee: Darren Bond Attendance: 12,363 (546 Millwall) An afternoon for quality football however non was played durng 97 minutes of this dire offering, the Lions set their stall out not to lose and try and catch us on the break, rarely looked like scoring, whilst we being denied space lumped it forward were Webster won most things in the air and when he didn't received numerous free kicks to help him out. An effort by Saville which was parried by Maxwell, Morison sliced the rebound wide and a Maguire effort into the side netting from a difficult angle were the sole efforts at goal. The game didn't flow with numerous stoppages, Millwall won the lions share of free kicks and lobbed all of them into our box in the hope their big lads woukld get on the end of them they didn't. Game was a bit more open in the second period and we had one great chance when Barkuizen and Fisher combined with the former cross being inches away from Harrop scoring that was it from us whilst a Morison shot just evaided Ferguson who was not noticed sneaking in at the back post. One too forget and a word must go in respects of Mr Bond the Lancashire referee and his assistants, fkin clueless
Preston manager Alex Neil said: "We knew it would be a tough match and they made it that way. We matched that but I'd like to see us do a bit better. "It's a home game and we wanted to win it. If you want to be at the top end of the table you have to win types of games like that. "These are the games you need to win 1-0. If you do that you go away thinking it's a great three points." Millwall boss Neil Harris said: "I think it wasn't the best quality performance by us. There were moments when we were disappointed in our attacking play, but we have to stand strong and get something out of the game and that's what we did. "We realised that we weren't affecting the game going forward. I was pleased with all their performances and what's pleasing is when you're not playing very well, you have to do your defensive responsibilities and we did that well. "It's two clean sheets in a row. Clean sheets are hard to come by and I'm delighted for the group. The fans will go home happy and proud of the team."
