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LAST TIME OUT



FORM GUIDE

PNE 13 NOTTS FOREST 12

MISSING IN ACTION

Sadly this lunatic will not be in the sticks for Forest on Tuesday due to being sent off in their last night, celebrated infront of us at the City Ground, sadly Brice revenge will have to wait

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PNE Team News

Ryan Lowe is expecting the whole squad from Saturday's game against Reading to be available again on Tuesday night.

Josh Murphy has stepped up his return to training, but the earliest he could be available will be the weekend’s game against Coventry City. He could also feature in Tuesday’s Central League game against Fleetwood Town.

Greg Cunningham, Sean Maguire and Tom Barkhuizen remain sidelined through injury.

The Opposition

Head coach Steve Cooper – who previously worked with PNE first team coach Mike Marsh in the England youth setup and with Swansea City – has completely turned Forest’s season around.

Taking over at The City Ground with the Reds sat in the relegation zone, he has turned them into promotion contenders, taking them to within touching distance of the top six.

Losing just three of their last 19 games, they arrive at Deepdale as one of the division’s form sides, but they have gone without a game for ten days, having had their clash with AFC Bournemouth postponed on Friday.

Key Stats

Forest have picked up more points on the road than on their home patch so far this season, accumulating 25 points away from home compared to 22 at The City Ground.

In what has been a breakthrough season for Brennan Johnson at Forest, the 20-year-old is in the form of his life, playing a direct part in 15 goals in the league this campaign.

PNE are winless in five at home to Nottingham Forest, with the last victory at Deepdale over the Reds in 2015, when Eoin Doyle’s second-minute goal was enough to claim three points.

Our Last Victory


PNE last came out on top against Nottingham Forest when they faced each other on the last day of the 2020/21 season.

James Garner had put the Reds ahead at The City Ground, before second-half goals from Tom Bayliss and Liam Lindsay earned the three points on Gentry Day.

Man In The Middle

Geoff Eltringham will referee the 27th PNE game of his career on Tuesday night.

The experienced EFL official last took charge of a North End game in September 2021 when Emil Riis earned a late point for his side against Sheffield United.

Eltringham, who has shown 102 yellow cards in 24 games this season, will be assisted by Nick Greenhalgh and Jonathan Hunt, while Rebecca Welch is the fourth official.

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MACS VIEW

After Saturday's horror show need to produce the goods tonight against a vastly improved Forest side, left wing back problem is an issue considering Brennan Johnson is likely to be running rampant in that area. We have not won at home this year which needs to change might not be tonight

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Preston North End 0 Nottingham Forest 0

PNE line-up: Iversen; van den Berg, Bauer (Earl, 53), Lindsay; Potts, Whiteman, Browne, Johnson, Hughes; Archer, Evans (Riis, 74). Subs not used: Ripley, McCann, Rafferty, Ledson, Sinclair.

Nottingham Forest line-up: Horvarth; Worrall, Cook, McKenna; Spence, Yates, Colback, Garner, Lowe; Johnson, Davis (Surridge, 81). Subs not used: Smith, Figueiredo, Zinckernagel, Mighten, Cafu, Lolley.

Attendance: 12,598 (2,308 away).

Referee: Mr G Eltringham.

Disappointed not to win this although it may have been a different game if they had got a stonewall penalty in the first ten minutes, Van Den Berg on Davis, however Uncle Geoff thought it was a clean tackle. Apart from that penalty shout and a late effort from Spence we dominated this game. It's probably as well as we have played under Lowe although we still have an inability to put the ball in the net.

Forest resplendent in their lurid second kit offered little or nothing during the game, even the wonder youngster Johnson was barely noticed. First half we played the ball behind the ponderous back three forced a series of corners but didn't really test Horvarth in the Forest goal. Potts in particlar got into some excellent position and sent in some pin point crosses into the box, closst we came when Browne sliding in at fhe back post couldn't get a touch on the ball as it sneaked past him.
At the back Lindsay came into the side in place of Sinclair and as in all his recent appearances didn't let the side down, Evans bulied their back four and led the line excellently. Level at the break.
Never quite got the joy own the flanks in the second half but we did create two good chances the second Archer timed his run perfectly to take Potts's inch perfect pass advanced on goal slid the ball past Horvarth but also the wrong side of the post shuld have scored but proves even the best can miss them.
Lost Bauer to injury which didn't help plus a booking for his replacement Earl also left him a bit exposed especially as for theonly time in the game Spence got into a dangerous position advanced on goal and fired across the six yard box, no one touched it, closest Forest came all night in the 90th minute.
Deserved more but cannot fault the effort and the application they put in last night. Good atmosphere as well only one more night game at home, wonder who that is against?

Preston North End manager Ryan Lowe told BBC Radio Lancashire:

I was delighted with the performance, but would have been more delighted with the three points. It wasn't for the lack of trying. The lads were fantastic.

"Forest have been ripping teams apart. Their front line are fantastic players and we nullified their strengths so I'm really pleased. Just the last little bit is a goal, but it wasn't for the lack of trying.

"A lot of the credit has to go to them because when you have a performance like that (3-2 defeat to Reading) it can knock you, and the good thing was it didn't knock us - we bounced back from it and we go again."

Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper told BBC Radio Nottingham:

"My personal view is that we should have got a penalty, but we don't tend to get those decisions this season.

"We never really got going in the second half - they piled the pressure in and had two decent chances. We could have nicked it when Djed got down the side, but we turned the ball over too much.

"I'm satisfied with a point, looking at the game and how it went. We've kept a clean sheet, we stood strong and defended a lot of corners really well.

"We know we can play better, we know individuals can play better so it might end up being a good point."