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Match Day Thread Preston North End v Derby County Deepdale 20/4/2021

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    LAST TIME OUT
    PLASTICS 2 DERBY 1

    FORM GUIDE

    PNE 8 DERBY 3

    The penultimate home game of the season finds 10 points clear of the Merry Millers although with games in hand have the feeling that the two Covid enforced breaks will ultimately cost them their place in the division.
    Just above them are Derby tomorrow's visitors who in an ideal word would love to see being relegated, personally notthing against any Rams fans but the atual running of the club over the last couple of seasons as them them sail extremely close to the wind in regards to rules.
    Apparently they have now been taken over woner if that includes owning the ground given the last owners ability to sell the ground to himself all allegedly of course.
    Then we have the signing of the now manager whse original deal was sponsored by a betting company whose name adorns their shirts and ours as a matter of fact although hopefully for not much longer.
    When we won their with a last minute goal the bet firm who sponsor both of us tweeted that Derby were so unlucky to lose.
    On the field after a good start Wayne Rooney's Derby County to giive them their correct Sky name have struggled of late a desperate shortage of goals although Tom Lawrence is back and is still banging them in.
    The side they put out on Friday seemed to be bereft of forwards and they have only found the net 31 times this season(so we know what will happen tomorrow night)
    Third meeting of the sides this season and unusally given our dreadful recent recors against the Rams we have won them both admittedly after both games saw them reduced to 10 men.
    One point will take us to 50 points, three will leave them in deep crap.
     
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    It’s the penultimate game of the season at Deepdale and it is one where both teams will be fighting tooth and nail for the three points as we face Wayne Rooney’s Derby County for the third time this campaign.

    After two wins at Pride Park, one coming under the management of Philip Cocu, North End will be looking to complete a season treble against the Rams, having not done a league double over them since the 2002/03 season.

    Rooney will be eyeing a vital three points for his side, who currently sit four points above the last relegation spot, although Rotherham United still have two games in hand.

    For PNE, they know that a win would put them nine points above County with both sides just having three games left to play and in a strong position ahead of their trip to Coventry at the weekend.

    Head To Head: PNE wins – 51; Draws – 23; Derby County - 47

    Team News
    Liam Lindsay is available again after being unable to play against his parent club at the weekend. He will compete for a place in the backline for the Lilywhites.

    The only definite absentees at this stage are Declan Rudd, Patrick Bauer and Joe Rafferty, with Daniel Johnson being assessed before the game.

    For Wayne Rooney, Manchester United loanee Teden Mengi has returned to his parent club early, with a season-ending hamstring injury, whilst another of the Rams loan signings, midfielder Beni Baningime, could also miss out a hamstring problem.

    There is good news for England's all-time leading goalscorer, with Martyn Waghorn set to return, but Lee Gregory (who is out for the season), George Edmundson and Jack Stretton not back fit.

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    Match Officials
    For the third time this season – all at Deepdale - the match official will be Geoff Eltringham, who refereed our 1-0 home win over Bristol City back in December and the goalless draw with Reading in January.

    His last PNE game before that was the game where Scott Sinclair scored his first goal for the club, versus the winger’s former employers Swansea City on 1st February 2020.

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

    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 26 games this season, with 77 cautions and five red cards issued, and this will also be his third Rams game of the season, having taken charge of their home defeat to Watford and a home win over Huddersfield Town.

    For the game, the referee will be assisted by James Wilson and Jonathan Hunt, whilst the fourth official will be Sam Barrott.
     
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    1 up Whiteman
     
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    Ledson 3-0
     
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    And that ladies and gentlemen is safety
     
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    Preston North End 3 Derby County 0




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    A first goal for the club for Ben Whiteman and second half strikes from Ched Evans and Ryan Ledson gave Preston North End their first double over Derby County for 18 years.


    The Lilywhites put nine points between themselves and the Rams, with three games of the season to go, thanks to Whiteman’s first half header, followed by Evans’ low strike from eight yards and Ledson’s 30-yard free kick from the left touchline in the closing stages at Deepdale, as PNE came out 3-0 victors over Wayne Rooney’s men.

    Interim head coach Frankie McAvoy made one change before the game, with Liam Lindsay returning at the heart of the back three, releasing Tom Barkhuizen from wing back duties, partnering Evans in a two-pronged attack – Emil Riis dropping to the bench.

    In both halves the visitors started brightly, without creating too much to threaten Daniel Iversen, who recorded his third clean sheet in five games and it was the hosts who had the earliest opportunities.

    Ten minutes in, a long throw from Barkhuizen was flicked on by Jordan Storey, eventually finding its way to skipper Alan Browne, who flicked the ball over a defender and hit a half-volley just wide of the right-hand upright from 12 yards out.

    Whiteman had an opportunity to open the scoring before his goal, when Derby goalkeeper and captain David Marshal punched clear Greg Cunningham’s deflected shot, the ball falling to PNE’s January signing from Doncaster Rovers, who hit half-volley on edge of the area, but the effort bounced down and over the bar.

    However, he didn’t have to wait long for his goal. The No.17 started the move inside the centre circle, finding Barkhuizen on the right. He played the ball down the line for Browne, who got to the byline and reversed a ball back to just inside the area where Whiteman had continued his run. Evans had driven into the six-yard box, taking Andre Wisdom with him, leaving space for a free header from the midfielder, that Marshall got a hand on, but could only push into the top left corner.

    It could have been two just before half-time as Barkhuizen made a great break onto a loose ball down the right, put over a superb cross for the onrushing Ledson, but he was unable to repeat Whiteman’s effort, his header going over the bar, under pressure from Matthew Clarke.

    The second half, as previously mentioned, saw the visitors come out re-invigorated and it needed an excellent block from Andrew Hughes on 53 minutes to deny half-time substitute Martyn Waghorn. A corner from Nathan Byrne had found the former Leicester City striker at the back post, who drove goalwards, the deflection off the PNE left-sider falling on the follow up to Max Bird, who brought a superb save from Iversen to keep the lead intact.

    But the introduction of Brad Potts added a different element for McAvoy’s men at the mid-point of the latter period. His first touch saw the former Barnsley man win the ball in the middle of the Derby half, freeing Cunningham to drive forward and slide in a lovely ball for Barkhuizen in the left corner of the penalty area. He managed to get an excellent strike on the ball, but Scotland stopper Marshall made a great one-handed stop at full-stretch to put the ball behind.

    But the second goal came on 73 minutes and again Potts was involved, his drilled shot from the left-hand side of the penalty area, about two yards from the byline, pushed out by Marshall to Evans, who blistered a volley into the bottom right-hand corner from eight yards out.

    Barkhuizen was again denied by Marshall, with 14 minutes to go, as he collected a long ball from Iversen, cut in from the left and curled a shot that the Rams’ No.1 had to tip away, before at the other end the PNE keeper showed his abilities once again, to deny Tom Lawrence from 20 yards.

    But the game was put to bed with three minutes left on the clock, when a free kick was awarded on the left-hand touchline and Ledson swung the ball in to the back post, flying through a crowd of players and the outstretched boots of both Browne and Evans and into the bottom right-hand corner of the goal, completing the win.

    PNE line-up: Iversen, van den Berg, Storey, Lindsay, Hughes, Cunningham Whiteman (Potts, 65), Ledson (Molumby, 90), Browne (c), Barkhuizen (Riis, 85), Evans (Maguire, 90). Subs not used: Ripley, Bayliss, Huntington, Sinclair, Gordon.

    b: Marshall (c), Wisdom (Edmondson, 34), Forsyth (Buchanan, 46), Shinnie (Ebosele, 77), Bird, Lawrence, Byrne, Kazim-Richards, Clarke, Roberts, Knight (Forsyth, 46). Subs not used: Roos, Sibley, Dixon, Watson, Brown.

    Referee: Mr G Eltringham

    Preston North End interim head coach Frankie McAvoy:

    "I thought we were extremely disciplined right from the start tonight. We knew it was a big game and the first goal would be crucial to the game.

    "We had to then go on and weather a bit of a storm in the first 15 minutes after the break, but we stood up to it, got the second goal and the third goal was the icing on the cake.

    "That means we now have three clean sheets from five games and the lads deserve a lot of credit for that. I cannot ask any more from the lads, their team spirit has been magnificent."

    Derby County manager Wayne Rooney told BBC Radio Derby:

    "The first goal of the game is a number of mistakes from players who have been very important to us, so it's part of the game that's very frustrating as a manager.

    "We are conceding too many sloppy goals and yet again a few half-chances for us, but we don't score.

    "We have given ourselves an uphill battle in the next three games. We have to hope that other teams lose and we have to try and win our games to give ourselves a chance of staying in the league."
     
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