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Preston North End v Reading
                                                        DEEPDALE
                                                    10 APRIL 2023 KO 3.00PM



Our visitors last time out




FORM GUIDE

PNE 16  READING 4



https://www.readingfc.co.uk/

https://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopi...1&t=190263

In The Dressing Room

Ryan Lowe confirmed Alan Browne was on crutches as a precaution after the game against Queens Park Rangers and that he would require a scan to determine the extent of the injury which the Irishman picked up in the first half.

Liam Lindsay should be good to go again after sustaining a head injury in the same game, but the defender battled on with a bandage to help his side keep a clean sheet.

Ali McCann, who is getting closer to a return, will be missing once again, as well as long-term absentees Ched Evans, Emil Riis and Greg Cunningham.

A Look At Our Visitors


After being hit with a six-point deduction last week, Reading will arrive at Deepdale in desperate need of points to lift them outside of the division’s bottom three.

Under Paul Ince, the Berkshire side found themselves at the other end of the table in the early stages of the season, having won seven of their opening 11 league games.

However, things have changed for the worse since then, and with just two wins since the turn of the year and none in their last seven games – as well as their point deduction – there is plenty of work still to do.

Going Head To Head


Games played: 66
PNE wins: 26
Draws: 13
Reading wins: 27
Last meeting: Reading 1-2 PNE, 4th November 2022

One To Watch

North End will have to deal with the presence of 6ft 4in striker Andy Carroll on Monday afternoon.

The former England international – who scored once in a short-term loan with Preston North End back in the 2007/08 season – has netted eight goals so far this campaign, including two in his last three games.

With experience of being promoted out of the Championship, and winning the League Cup among other achievements, Reading will also be looking to call upon the knowhow of Carroll to help them survive in the second tier.

Match Officials


For the second season running, John Busby will referee a meeting between Preston North End and Reading at Deepdale.

While North End were on the wrong end of the scoreline that day, PNE have enjoyed themselves in the main with Busby in the middle, with the referee overseeing a victory over Swansea City, and a win and a draw against Coventry City this term.

In total, Busby has taken charge of 28 games this campaign, showing 108 yellow cards and four reds.

MANAGER

Paul Ince

Paul Emerson Carlyle Ince (/ɪns/; born 21 October 1967) is an English professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of EFL Championship side Reading. A former midfielder, Ince played professionally from 1982 to 2007, starting his career with West Ham United and later representing Manchester United, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Swindon Town and Macclesfield Town in England, as well as Inter Milan in Italy. With a combined total of 271 league appearances for the two, Ince is one of the few players, especially in the Premier League era, to have represented both of arch rivals Liverpool and Manchester United.

Ince spent the majority of his playing career at the highest level; after breaking through with his then-Second Division boyhood club West Ham United, he joined Manchester United in 1989 where he would win the Premier League twice, the FA Cup twice and the Football League Cup once during his six year spell at Old Trafford. After falling out with manager Alex Ferguson, Ince was sold to Inter Milan of Serie A in 1995, where he was a runner-up in the 1997 UEFA Cup.

After two years in Italy, Ince returned to the Premier League with Liverpool, later also representing Middlesbrough and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the top flight before beginning to move into coaching in the mid-2000s. After a spell as player-coach of Swindon Town, he retired from playing while player-manager of Macclesfield Town in 2007. He went on to manage Milton Keynes Dons (twice), Blackburn Rovers, Notts County and, after an almost-two-year break, Blackpool. He was capped 53 times by England, scoring two goals.

As a player, he won numerous honours with Manchester United, and became the first black player to captain the England national team.[3] His son Tom is also a footballer.

THE JOY OF EX



MACS VIEW

Easter Monday buisness end of the season and quite bizarrely we are still in with a chance of losing to Middlesbrough in the play off semis, quite how we have still managed to be in with a chance is just weird but apart from being dicked by Boro and Burnley we have actually been in a decent bit of form. We have actually won some home games which after losing five on the trot does make a difference, if we had done better in those games we'd bwe challenging the tp two.
Any Reading at home should be winnable aganst the legend that isn't Paul Ince, presently in the drop zone due to the inability of their board to run a booze up in a pub having points docked once is stupid twice is criminal.
Will the Royals be up for it, we shall see tomorrow, a win for us and we can keep dreaming

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Preston North End 2 Cannon, Potts Reading 1 Ehibhationham

PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Lindsay, Hughes; Potts, Whiteman, Onomah (Woodburn, 72), Johnson ©, Fernández; Cannon, Parrott (Brady, 89). Subs not used: Cornell, Bauer, Ledson, Diaby, Slater.

Reading line-up: Lumley; Sarr, Holmes (Azeez, 71), Dann; Yiadom, Loum (Fornah, 71), Hendrick, Casadei, Guiness-Walker; João, Carroll (Ehibhatiomhan, 71). Subs not used: Boyce-Clarke, Mbengue, Abrefa, Craig.

Attendance: 15,092 (436 Reading fans).

Referee: Mr J Busby.

With seven minutes to go the Reading player with the long name equalised totally against what had happened in the previous 83 minutes, personally thought it was an own goal but didn't matter Reading had somehow got level.
Would have been an injustice if they had got something from this one sided encounter but they almost did.
Potts almost won it in injury time but Lumley pulled off a great save to deny the pony tailed defender, however not for long, with Reading attacking, Whiteman broke up an attack the ball was recycled down to the other end of the pitch and the attack was thwarted by the Reading but instead of sending the ball down field the black shirted defender haplessly sliced the ball behind for a corner.
The needless corner alert was brought into play, first seen in a cup tie against Man Utd in the early 70's , when Dave Boils Connor gave away a needless corner which led to a United goal.
Brady ball to the back post, headed back across goal to Sir Bradley of Potts who headed home cue mass celebration from the home masses, three massive points and now only out of the play off behind the Plastics.
Before the lad with the long named scored we should have been out of sight against a Reading side who were in brutal honesty awful. saying that though some of the football we played today was excellent.
The front two linked well Parrott probably having his best game for the club, Cannon keeps scoring but the biggest bonus of the lot was a great performance from Josh Onmah who since we signed him has shed about 10 stone and looks a more than decent player, only on a short term contract needs to be signed.
Whiteman, DJ and big Josh excellent in midfield, we created chances Potts headed narrowly wide, Cannon put one inches wide and a deflected shot went the wrong side of the post with Lumley rooted to the spot. On the stroke of half time Hughes had an effort blocked on the line.
A bocked effort from Joao and a shot from Guiness-Walker which was on course for orbit around Mars until hitting an unsuspecting punter in the Town End. Mr Busby had been the visitors best player in the front half gving soft free kicks and generally getting in the wy of our attacks.
Alvaro who just gets better and better showboating out of defence,  soe of the stuff we played was excellent.
Second half it seemed onl a matter of time until we despatched the hapless visitirs but they hung in there until Fernandez, Onomah and finally Cannon combined with the latter blasting the ball home.
Cannon denied by Lumley needed another to see if Reading didn't come, Hendricks 30 yard effort well saved by Woodman, then came the lad with the long name but it all came well in the end.

Preston boss Ryan Lowe told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"I told the lads at half-time that, if you want a chance to get to 62 points and kick on, you've got to give a little bit more. We worked our socks off and moved the ball well but it was just that clinical edge, which we got in the second half.

"Potts was brave. He was fantastic today in every way, along with the rest of them. I said to Tom Cannon at half-time to keep patient. The calmness of his finish was brilliant.

"Whichever way you win at this stage of the season doesn't really matter. We've given ourselves a very good chance of trying to get in the play-offs. We've been setting targets every three games and we'll do the same on Thursday. If we can achieve them, it will be amazing - it won't be for the lack of trying."

Reading boss Paul Ince told BBC Radio Berkshire:

"It's a lack of concentration and it's not the first time, whether it's lack of quality, focus, or concentration. We get the ball in midfield and we're trying to run with it instead of passing it out. A ball comes in, we panic, slice at it and it goes for a corner. We don't win the first or second header.

"We did so well to get back into the game. It's great that Kelvin, as a young kid, has got the equaliser - that's the only positive to come out of it. We lacked the quality and mental toughness to hold onto it.

"We lack the character to see out games. I said to them, 'if I'd have been playing in this team, I'd have been right on it and you wouldn't have got away with some of the things you do.' We all make mistakes but the decision-making can't always come from me."

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