02-10-2022, 09:32
Sunderland 0 Preston North End 0
Sunderland line-up: Patterson; Gooch, O’Nien, Batth, Alese; Roberts, Evans (Ba, 60), Neil, Clarke (Dajaku, 81); Embleton (Amad, 60), Pritchard (Bennette, 70). Subs not used: Bass, Dajaku, Matete, Wright.
PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Lindsay, Cunningham; Browne, Whiteman, Ledson (Woodburn, 73), Fernández; Brady (McCann, 86), Riis; Evans (Parrott, 67). Subs not used: Cornell, Johnson, Diaby, Potts.
Attendance: 41,225 (2,532 PNE fans).
Referee: Mr A Woolmer.
Another huge tranche of football supporters have been introduced to the phrase Preston North End nil, for some of the 2500 travelling support it is begining to annoy them, there was a smattering of boos at the end when Mr Fantastic clapped the away end.
One thing about going up to the North East is the journey, the Howgills, the hill up to Kirkby Stephen is always a test as is getting through the village, sixteen coaches at the same time does create a bit of chaos. (If you look closely there is an old fashioned sign post which states Appleby 13 miles 2 furlongs.) The A66 over the top is always great scenery wise.
Arrived there miles too early, a couple of laps round the ground then up the steps which was a joy with a swollen arthitic big toe and the after effects of the Covid and Flu jabs did cause some excessively heavy breathing.
One welcome move Brady relinquished from being wasted at left wing back into a more forward position.
A faux pas by the home staff leaving training disc on the pitch caused a slight delay after the kick off, the first half was quite entertaining we had the best early chance Whiteman's goal bound effort was virtually in before Alese cleared from the line brilliantly.
Clarke for the home side was a danger hroughout the first half linked well with Alese. Sadly for the home side the efforts on goal were wide apart from one saved by Woodman. Roberts on the other wing wasn't as prominent although he had one effort which from my seat in the Gods looked to be just wide.
We had chances Riis got through twice, once the ball didn't quite drop for him and the other tried to work himself into a shooting position but was crowded out by the home defence. Evans meanwhile ran around with an inability to trap a bag of cement with his ears flapping in the wind although to be fair to him he did have a good effort saved by the keeper in the second half. Browne slightly unlucky when well placed however lost the flight of the ball in the low October sun.
The second period was scrappy we didn't really create a lot apart from the Evans chance.
Roberts should have scored having megged Cunningham worked himself into a great position and fired wide. The hosts best other chance came after an outrageous foul by referee Andy Woolmer of Ledson, the home side broke away and Embleton dallied too long and the chance was lost. Woolmer didn't even book himself shameful.
From then on in became blindingly obvious that neither side would score, Sunderland subs did cause a few issues but apart from one save Woodman wasn't overly tested.
Whether it was being knackered left teh ground thoroughly underwhelmed even though it's a decent point.
Sunderland manager Tony Mowbray:
"They (Preston) are a pretty well organised team, they've got some huge physical attributes in that team, I thought we saw them off really well today and yet we couldn't find the answer to score a goal, yet we did have some pretty good chances.
"We will find a way to score goals, we will find a way to win games, there are football matches where you don't score, every team goes through a spell, that's one game.
"We scored five in the last two away games, I don't see it being an issue at all.
"I think there's plenty in this team who can score goals and plenty of players who come off the bench and can score goals as well."
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Preston North End boss Ryan Lowe:
"I'm not frustrated in terms of performance, we're frustrated we need to get goals, of course, but we can't let that manifest. I said to the group we need to keep believing, keep doing the right things.
"Overall pleased, we've got into good areas, we've had one cleared off the line, a potential error, Ched had one saved by the keeper so the chances are there, I think we had eight today and five were on target.
"So overall pleased with the performance, nearly the perfect away performance if we'd got three points."
Sunderland line-up: Patterson; Gooch, O’Nien, Batth, Alese; Roberts, Evans (Ba, 60), Neil, Clarke (Dajaku, 81); Embleton (Amad, 60), Pritchard (Bennette, 70). Subs not used: Bass, Dajaku, Matete, Wright.
PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Lindsay, Cunningham; Browne, Whiteman, Ledson (Woodburn, 73), Fernández; Brady (McCann, 86), Riis; Evans (Parrott, 67). Subs not used: Cornell, Johnson, Diaby, Potts.
Attendance: 41,225 (2,532 PNE fans).
Referee: Mr A Woolmer.
Another huge tranche of football supporters have been introduced to the phrase Preston North End nil, for some of the 2500 travelling support it is begining to annoy them, there was a smattering of boos at the end when Mr Fantastic clapped the away end.
One thing about going up to the North East is the journey, the Howgills, the hill up to Kirkby Stephen is always a test as is getting through the village, sixteen coaches at the same time does create a bit of chaos. (If you look closely there is an old fashioned sign post which states Appleby 13 miles 2 furlongs.) The A66 over the top is always great scenery wise.
Arrived there miles too early, a couple of laps round the ground then up the steps which was a joy with a swollen arthitic big toe and the after effects of the Covid and Flu jabs did cause some excessively heavy breathing.
One welcome move Brady relinquished from being wasted at left wing back into a more forward position.
A faux pas by the home staff leaving training disc on the pitch caused a slight delay after the kick off, the first half was quite entertaining we had the best early chance Whiteman's goal bound effort was virtually in before Alese cleared from the line brilliantly.
Clarke for the home side was a danger hroughout the first half linked well with Alese. Sadly for the home side the efforts on goal were wide apart from one saved by Woodman. Roberts on the other wing wasn't as prominent although he had one effort which from my seat in the Gods looked to be just wide.
We had chances Riis got through twice, once the ball didn't quite drop for him and the other tried to work himself into a shooting position but was crowded out by the home defence. Evans meanwhile ran around with an inability to trap a bag of cement with his ears flapping in the wind although to be fair to him he did have a good effort saved by the keeper in the second half. Browne slightly unlucky when well placed however lost the flight of the ball in the low October sun.
The second period was scrappy we didn't really create a lot apart from the Evans chance.
Roberts should have scored having megged Cunningham worked himself into a great position and fired wide. The hosts best other chance came after an outrageous foul by referee Andy Woolmer of Ledson, the home side broke away and Embleton dallied too long and the chance was lost. Woolmer didn't even book himself shameful.
From then on in became blindingly obvious that neither side would score, Sunderland subs did cause a few issues but apart from one save Woodman wasn't overly tested.
Whether it was being knackered left teh ground thoroughly underwhelmed even though it's a decent point.
Sunderland manager Tony Mowbray:
"They (Preston) are a pretty well organised team, they've got some huge physical attributes in that team, I thought we saw them off really well today and yet we couldn't find the answer to score a goal, yet we did have some pretty good chances.
"We will find a way to score goals, we will find a way to win games, there are football matches where you don't score, every team goes through a spell, that's one game.
"We scored five in the last two away games, I don't see it being an issue at all.
"I think there's plenty in this team who can score goals and plenty of players who come off the bench and can score goals as well."
Preston North End boss Ryan Lowe:
"I'm not frustrated in terms of performance, we're frustrated we need to get goals, of course, but we can't let that manifest. I said to the group we need to keep believing, keep doing the right things.
"Overall pleased, we've got into good areas, we've had one cleared off the line, a potential error, Ched had one saved by the keeper so the chances are there, I think we had eight today and five were on target.
"So overall pleased with the performance, nearly the perfect away performance if we'd got three points."
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