17-12-2022, 21:02
Preston North End 0 Queens Park Rangers 1 Dunne
PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Lindsay, Cunningham (O’Neill, 85); Potts (Diaby, 90), Whiteman, Ledson (Cross-Adair, 68), Fernández; Johnson, Woodburn; Evans. Subs not used: Cornell, Bauer, Slater, Mawene.
QPR line-up: Dieng; Laird, Dunne, Clarke-Salter, Paal; Field, Dozzell (Dickie, 90+1), Iroegbunam; Adomah, Dykes, Willock (Shodipo, 78). Subs not used: Archer, Kakay, Thomas, Richards, Armstrong.
Attendance: 14,534 (504 away fans).
Referee: Mr O Langford.
Back to earth with a bang after last weeks win at Slackburn, in truth deserved nothing and that is what we got, second best for the vast majority of the game against a side who passed it about better than us, ran at defenders(we didn't) and heaven forbid we ever do it had shots from distance..
All the danger in the Hoops side came from players who had the number seven on their shirts, Willock(7) Dozzell(17) Laird (27) Albert (37) Ireogbunam (47)
It was a miracle we managed to get to half time level, having been battered for a large part of the half, there was a period of about five minutes were we couldn't get out of our own penelty area, bodies were put in the way of goalbound shots apart from the one from 30 yards by Ireogbunam which hit the inside of the post and bounced clear.
In their resplendent black and burgundy hoop shirts(classy I thought) they gave an object lesson on how to play on a pitch which was probably slightky worse than it looked, appeared to be some icy patches on it.
Willock very decent player ran out our defenders caused them problems. Dykes battle with Lindsay was fascinating although Dykes may have been lucky to avoid a second yellow.
We offered litte in the first half inability to find a white shirt and a tendency to welly the ball skywards which played into the hands of the Rangers defence as Woodburn can't head a ball
Second half more of the same, this time Rangers added a goal, great corner, not hgreat defending and Dunne fired home from close range off the underside of the bar.
We woke up from this setback and actually had a shot Woodburn easily saved by Dieng.
End to end in the latter stages except when Rangers players seemed to have been hit by a mystery disease which caused them to collapse all over the pitch, they wasted a few hours on dead ball kicks and managed the game well with the help of Mr Langford or to give him his Spanish name Juan Kerr.
Potts was unlucky with a first time shot narrowly wide and a Rangers defender nearly own goaled but that would have been harsh on teh visitors if we had equalised late on.
Ah well never mind our next home defeat is on Boxing Day against Huddesrfield cannot wait
Preston boss Ryan Lowe told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"After the Lord Mayor's show last week [at Blackburn], we knew we weren't going to get quite the same performance. It's very hard in the Championship.
"It's an opportunity missed. After winning away last week, it would have been nice to replicate that and get the six points going into Christmas.
"But we lacked a bit of quality. You've got to take your chances, and Queens Park Rangers have done a job on us.
"I've said to the lads in there 'don't be too down, these things happen' - we'll lift ourselves and step it up again next week."
QPR head coach Neil Critchley told BBC Radio London 94.9:
"Coming to a team in form - and we're out of form - I said to the players 'we're not coming here to take a point, we're coming here to win. We're not going to be on the back foot, we're going to take the game to them'.
"We did that. We didn't score when we were on top but thankfully we did in the second half. We scored from a corner routine that we worked on.
"It was a lovely delivery and thankfully he [Jimmy Dunne] hit it a bit better than the ones he hit on Friday. We got the reward for that and then had to show a real different side to our game. To come here and keep a clean sheet, I'm really proud of the way the players played.
"There are such fine margins but we were deservedly on the right side of that."
PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Lindsay, Cunningham (O’Neill, 85); Potts (Diaby, 90), Whiteman, Ledson (Cross-Adair, 68), Fernández; Johnson, Woodburn; Evans. Subs not used: Cornell, Bauer, Slater, Mawene.
QPR line-up: Dieng; Laird, Dunne, Clarke-Salter, Paal; Field, Dozzell (Dickie, 90+1), Iroegbunam; Adomah, Dykes, Willock (Shodipo, 78). Subs not used: Archer, Kakay, Thomas, Richards, Armstrong.
Attendance: 14,534 (504 away fans).
Referee: Mr O Langford.
Back to earth with a bang after last weeks win at Slackburn, in truth deserved nothing and that is what we got, second best for the vast majority of the game against a side who passed it about better than us, ran at defenders(we didn't) and heaven forbid we ever do it had shots from distance..
All the danger in the Hoops side came from players who had the number seven on their shirts, Willock(7) Dozzell(17) Laird (27) Albert (37) Ireogbunam (47)
It was a miracle we managed to get to half time level, having been battered for a large part of the half, there was a period of about five minutes were we couldn't get out of our own penelty area, bodies were put in the way of goalbound shots apart from the one from 30 yards by Ireogbunam which hit the inside of the post and bounced clear.
In their resplendent black and burgundy hoop shirts(classy I thought) they gave an object lesson on how to play on a pitch which was probably slightky worse than it looked, appeared to be some icy patches on it.
Willock very decent player ran out our defenders caused them problems. Dykes battle with Lindsay was fascinating although Dykes may have been lucky to avoid a second yellow.
We offered litte in the first half inability to find a white shirt and a tendency to welly the ball skywards which played into the hands of the Rangers defence as Woodburn can't head a ball
Second half more of the same, this time Rangers added a goal, great corner, not hgreat defending and Dunne fired home from close range off the underside of the bar.
We woke up from this setback and actually had a shot Woodburn easily saved by Dieng.
End to end in the latter stages except when Rangers players seemed to have been hit by a mystery disease which caused them to collapse all over the pitch, they wasted a few hours on dead ball kicks and managed the game well with the help of Mr Langford or to give him his Spanish name Juan Kerr.
Potts was unlucky with a first time shot narrowly wide and a Rangers defender nearly own goaled but that would have been harsh on teh visitors if we had equalised late on.
Ah well never mind our next home defeat is on Boxing Day against Huddesrfield cannot wait
Preston boss Ryan Lowe told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"After the Lord Mayor's show last week [at Blackburn], we knew we weren't going to get quite the same performance. It's very hard in the Championship.
"It's an opportunity missed. After winning away last week, it would have been nice to replicate that and get the six points going into Christmas.
"But we lacked a bit of quality. You've got to take your chances, and Queens Park Rangers have done a job on us.
"I've said to the lads in there 'don't be too down, these things happen' - we'll lift ourselves and step it up again next week."
QPR head coach Neil Critchley told BBC Radio London 94.9:
"Coming to a team in form - and we're out of form - I said to the players 'we're not coming here to take a point, we're coming here to win. We're not going to be on the back foot, we're going to take the game to them'.
"We did that. We didn't score when we were on top but thankfully we did in the second half. We scored from a corner routine that we worked on.
"It was a lovely delivery and thankfully he [Jimmy Dunne] hit it a bit better than the ones he hit on Friday. We got the reward for that and then had to show a real different side to our game. To come here and keep a clean sheet, I'm really proud of the way the players played.
"There are such fine margins but we were deservedly on the right side of that."
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