Preston North End home match thread

[Barrs Court Red]

Ref poor. City poor.  Not great so far is it. 

[Sturny]

Pretty crap football so far. Anything that gets mildly exciting is shut down by either side 

[Ivorguy]

I just love the fact that Ashton Gate negativity has recovered so well and quickly following unusual pre season positivity!

[old_eastender]

1 minute ago, MelksRed said:

Cornick barged off the ball....needs to be stronger...

needs to be left out of the starting 11... offered nothing so far.

[Spike]

Referee is allowing the physicality on our lads, they need to stop trying to go shoulder to shoulder and I reckon the Preston players would give away fouls rather than the ref seeing it as shoulder-to-shoulder, would get us more set pieces. That aside, we're not creating anything right now, Preston looking far more composed on the ball. We're being closed down very quickly and don't seem able to move it about enough to retain possession.

[BigTone]

1 minute ago, cityal said:

 

It's classy for maybe the 1st 1L after that it can go downhill rapidly. At 5L it can turn into a right mess.

At 5L I will be fluent in Braille

[Red from afar]

No shots by either team according to BBC. Is that right?

[PHILINFRANCE]

1 minute ago, BigTone said:

At 5L I will be fluent in Braille

You had better buy one of those new Rovers shirts before they sell out .

[old_eastender]

Just now, Red from afar said:

No shots by either team according to BBC. Is that right?

Yep

[Spike]

Preston have set up really well, they're letting us have it deep in the middle and then closing us in on the wide positions so we have nowhere to go, we need the midfield to offer a lot faster from the wings, at the moment we're far too spaced out so we can't chain together any passing moves.

[bexhill reds]

5 minutes ago, BigTone said:

At 5L I will be fluent in Braille

Big Tone’s Sat afternoon wine appreciation club is more entertaining than the football. Perhaps this should be a match day thread spin off….

Edited August 5, 2023 by bexhill reds

[BigTone]

1 minute ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

You had better buy one of those new Rovers shirts before they sell out .

Blackburn or Tranmere?

[cidercity1987]

This is league one standard on the ball

Preston physicality and the wind are not helping but we've been really poor

[IThinkThatOnesRooney]

The good news is we're 8th.

[Malago]

Can’t string two passes together.

[TheReds]

3 minutes ago, old_eastender said:

needs to be left out of the starting 11... offered nothing so far.

25 minutes into the season ffs.

Got to love the negativity on here sometimes.

[BigTone]

Just now, Malago said:

Can’t string two passes together.

Is a bit ho hum I agree

[Superjack]

Just now, TheReds said:

25 minutes into the season ffs.

Got to love the negativity on here sometimes.

Can't educate Bungle***ks.

[Wanderingred]

This forum is so toxic 

[cidercity1987]

Preston mistake and Bell should have scored. Good play from Wells

[Not Banksy]

We had a shot

[MelksRed]

Great run and through ball from Wells....Bell straight at the keeper

[And Its Smith]

First chance. Bell misses golden chance 

[PHILINFRANCE]

4 minutes ago, BigTone said:

Blackburn or Tranmere?

Bristol, who, incidentally, are winning 1-0.

[Spike]

Not surprised the crowd is quiet, we don't seem able to chain more than 3 passes together. Hardly the kind of performance so far that is going to get the fans going. We're also playing the odd dangerous pass due to being closed down so effectively. 
I still don't understand Williams coming on for Weimann, I mean we need someone in the middle willing to come to the ball and run with it right now, usually that would be Scott but Williams isn't going to do that so why not bring on Mehmeti and say "run at them"?

I feel like if Scott goes we certainly need a man to come in who will take the ball on in a deep position and be confident enough to create space to make a forward pass, right now we have 3 CM's on the pitch and none of them are creating anything.

Also, Bell should be doing better there, first real chance.

[old_eastender]

Just now, MelksRed said:

Great run and through ball from Wells....Bell straight at the keeper

Bell should score, such a tentative effort after our first bit of decent forward play.

[Bas's perfect hattrick]

Great chance. Slightly overhit pass from wells 

[bexhill reds]

Just now, And Its Smith said:

First chance. Bell misses golden chance 

Perhaps had too much time to think about it.

[Super]

Really poor

[Spike]

Williams done well to close down there but then made a very sloppy challenge in a dangerous position.