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PRESTON NORTH END V SUNDERLAND

DEEPDALE 12/8/23 15.00HRS

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MANAGER

Anthony Mark Mowbray (born 22 November 1963) is an English former professional footballer who is currently the head coach of Sunderland. Mowbray played for Middlesbrough, Celtic and Ipswich Town as a defender.

He began his coaching career with Ipswich Town and took his first managerial job at Scottish Premier League side Hibernian, where he won the Scottish Football Writers' Association Manager of the Year award in his first season. He moved on to West Bromwich Albion in 2006, where he won the Football League Championship in 2008, but then suffered relegation from the Premier League the following year. Mowbray was then appointed as manager of Celtic, but was dismissed after nine months for poor results.

Mowbray subsequently took the manager's role at another of his former clubs, Middlesbrough.[3] After a poor start to the 2013–14 season, Mowbray left Middlesbrough in October 2013.[4] After a spell with Coventry City, he was appointed Blackburn Rovers manager in February 2017. He was unable to prevent Rovers being relegated to League One, but then won promotion back to the Championship at the first attempt.

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MACS VIEW

Two home league games in a row against Sunderland slightly different circumstances Sunderland needed to win the May Day game which they duly did due to a spineless second half perfomance by North End
First home league game of the season means pressure is on us this time to actually perform hopefully Mr Fantastic will get the message across to the troops. Interesting approach to the season by North End we have only one fit forward, Riis and Evans nowhere near starting Cannon still at Everton. Meanwhile loan signing Ramsay has had a set back and this is the one which I find quitre staggering Whiteman injured last April only has his operation in July also a couple of weeks away from starting.
Suspect Holmes and Whatmough may start hopefully Mr Fantastic will play him in his correct position though I wouldn't bank on it. Sell out in the away end of the ground should be a good atmosphere and yes it's forecast to rain during the game

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Who’s Available?

Greg Cunningham – who has missed the opening two fixtures of the season – is expected to be available this weekend, having trained all week.

Manager Ryan Lowe confirmed loanee Calvin Ramsay has suffered an injury setback, but dismissed claims that he has returned to parent club Liverpool.

Long-term absentee Ched Evans has had positive news but is still a way off returning, while Ben Whiteman, Emil Riis and Robbie Brady are still sidelined.

Pre-Match Chat

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We caught up with manager Ryan Lowe and defender Liam Lindsay ahead of this weekend’s encounter.

Opposition Focus

In their first campaign back in the Championship last season following four terms in the third tier, Sunderland proved to be a surprise package and made it into the Play-Off places on the final day.

Losing to eventual winners Luton Town in the semi-final, Tony Mowbray’s side will be looking to go one better this season, and they’ve looked to strengthen their squad over the summer by bringing in the likes of Jobe Bellingham, Luis Semedo and Bradley Dack.

The Black Cats opened the campaign with a defeat at home to Ipswich Town and they were also being knocked out of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday by League Two side Crewe Alexandra.

A Recent Clash


PNE and Sunderland shared the spoils in an entertaining 2-2 draw at Deepdale in 2017, with Josh Harrop and Jordan Hugill on the scoresheet for North End.

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Supporters in the UK and Ireland can listen to the match live on iFollow PNE, with a £2.50 match pass or £4.49 monthly pass. Commentary comes from Jonathan Breeze and Andy Fensome.

Fans overseas are able to watch the match live, with £10 match passes available to buy.

You can also follow the action across our social media channels and here on PNE.Com.

Match Officials

Referee: James Linington
Assistant Referees: Greg Read and Andrew Dallison
Fourth Official: Thomas Parsons

James Linington will referee his first match at Deepdale since February 2021 when North End won 3-0 against Huddersfield Town. He last officiated a PNE fixture in March 2022, away to Cardiff City.

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Preston North End 2 Keane, Frokjaer Sunderland 1 Clarke pen

PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Lindsay, Hughes; Potts, McCann (Holmes, 76), Ledson, Best (Whatmough, 79); Browne, Frøkjær (Woodburn, 86); Keane. Subs not used: Cornell, Cunningham, Bauer, Rodriguez-Gentile, Taylor, Leigh.

Sunderland line-up: Patterson; Himes, Ballard, O’Nien, Cirkin; Neil, Ekwah (Ba, 75); Roberts, Bellingham (Pritchard, 66), Clarke; Dack (Hemir, 66). Subs not used: Bishop, Huggins, Batth, Bennette, Triantis, Rigg.

Attendance: 19,892 (5,655 Sunderland fans).

Referee: Mr J Linington.

A hard fought victory possibly got slightly lucky both goals had a touch of fortune about them but c'est a vie. Unchanged side for us not surprising really as we have a paper thin squad, the visitors had the majority of the side that won convincingly on the last day of the season.
A murky afternoon but not that bad to warrant the floodlights being on at 3 pm for a Saturday game in August.
Great away support for Sunderland and a crowd of just shy of 20000.
Sunderland were always going to be a danger going forward with wingers Clarke and Roberts are match winners on their day and with North End having a very inexperiennced 17 year old at left wing back, they were always going to exploit this, and so it proved
Roberts was a handful and gave Best a very arly lesson about the standard he is up against at this level.
First 20 minutes were singularly uneventful they looked more dangerous than us and per under Lowe the build up was painfully slow but against the run of pay we took the lead, looked a tam shot from Mads or was it a well constructed pass to Keane, either the way the shot/pass from Mads hit Keane and went in.
Within five minutes Sunderland were level from the spot after Clarke was apparently fouled by Best, one of a series of strange decisions by Mr Linnington. Clarke although Woodman got a hand to it. Happy to get to the break as we were distincly under the cosh getting to half time

Second half thought we started the brighter before Sunderland got their wingers back into the game, goal again probably just slightly against the run of play, an attck broke down near our early Visitors slow to react Browne down fied tried to put Frokjaer in the ball hit Keane and ran to thge aforementioned Dane right footed past Patterson knee slide towards Town End the lad is learning.
Instant reaction from the Black Cats, Roberts probably still not sure how Woodman saved his effort from 6 yards, from the resulting corner O'Nein should have scored with a free header and substitute Ba exploiting acres of space behind Best was denied by a magnificent Hughes recovery
We defended pretty well getting bodies in the way of shots on target and managed to hold on for a welcome three points.
We need reinforcements as for the Black Cats getting Stewrt back and firing cannot come to soon enough

Preston boss Ryan Lowe told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"You've got to be horrible sometimes. We have to make this place horrible. We've got to be uglier than we've ever been.

"We're not getting carried away. We'll keep coming up with game plans. If there's times we can play football we will do it. You find a way to win.

"Mads [Frokjaer] is a flair player, a maverick, it's what we wanted. He's getting better each time. He's got a bit of magic on the ball."

Sunderland boss Tony Mowbray told BBC Radio Newcastle:

"It was very similar to last week really - a similar amount of the ball, a similar amount of set plays, a similar amount of chances and we didn't capitalise on them. Fine margins.

"Was it that different from the game here at the end of last season when we stuck the ball in the back of the net three times? We'll be fine. I feel like the team are functioning ok apart from the last little bit. If we were getting dominated... they had two shots on target and scored with both. We just have to keep doing what we're doing.

"You should judge football on the performance level of the team but we don't, we get judged by results. The results are not very good but the performance level in both games has been pretty good."

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