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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