It's not tomorrow, it's today

The last scheduled home night game of the season, on the mudflats of Deepdale agaianst our Yorkshire visitors who are probaly surprosed as we are to both be in the play off, zone.

Good win for them at Southampton, whilst ran aground at home to a Derby side who played the condiions better than we did.
Luckily it's the last game on the pitch for 18 days, which should give it some time to recover from the battering it has had.

They have signed YU from Bristol City who scored at Deepdale after basically picking up the ball and throwing it into the net.

https://www.wearehullcity.co.uk/

MANAGER

Sergej Jakirović (pronounced [sěrɡej jakǐːroʋitɕ];[3][4] born 23 December 1976) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of EFL Championship club Hull City.

Comes across as a decent bloke

FORM GUIDE



PNE 10 TIGERS 15

Team News



Dan Iversen is unlikely to be fit for the contest after missing out on the Derby County clash at the weekend.

Andrew Hughes also remains a doubt, whilst Robbie Brady and Andrija Vukčević continue working back to full fitness.

The Visitors



Coming into the contest, Hull City sit directly above North End in the Championship standings.

The Tigers have been potent in front of goal this term, with their return of 42 strikes only bettered by Ipswich Town and Coventry City at this stage in the campaign.

Hull are without a win at Deepdale since 2021, but have been extremely successful on their travels this season. Their tally of 21 points away from home is only two shy of league leaders Coventry, which ranks Sergej Jakirović’s side as one of PNE’s toughest home challenges yet.

Match Officials

Referee: Stephen Martin
Assistant Referees: Hristo Karaivanov and Darren Williams
Fourth Official: David Webb

Taking charge of this fixture is Stephen Martin.

He has refereed 31 PNE games in the past, with the Lilywhites tasting victory on 16 of those occasions. The last of these matches was North End’s 1-1 draw with Norwich City in December.

Martin has shown 73 cards in 17 fixtures so far this season.