15-07-2017, 20:40
A win in the new gaffers first game, although they were given a much harder workout by Gannon's Conerence North side. As with the game at Bamber Bridge two completely different sides played in each half although keeper Maxwell played the entire game.
A decent 1400 saw the game with about 400 from Preston, a few early getting to know you tackles were put in early on, North End looked more likely to score early on, but as shooting isn't one of our strong points, these effeorts were saved our ended up in the crowd. Couny slightly more direct had a gret chance early on when Huntingon was beaten by the bounce of the ball by Warburton who was in a great position until Hunts brought him down a nadgers away from the penalty area. The free kick was easily saved by Maxwell.
North End started to domnate down both flanks and with the impressive Robinson looking dangerous every time he got the ball, it only looked a matter of time until we scored, chances came and went and just before the half hour the home side scored, Stephenson looked to have been fouled in the area but manages to get the ball to Oswellwho fired home off the post. For a while the goal rocked North End and Stephenson should have made it two but a save by Maxwell and a block by Spurr denied him.
Parity was secured when Pringle(had a decent game) fired over a sexy cross, Barkuizhen beat the full back squared to Robbo 1 all. Before the next plane arrived Robbo's even better pass found Barkuizen and the lads were ahead by the break.
The first half team mentions to Pringle, DJ, Barkuizhen, but Robinson was excellent.
As for the second half it was dire, North End took a quick free kick which nearly lead to a Stephenson goal for Stockport, and a Browne shot which was well saved by their sub keeper before Browne sliced the rebound wide were the only highlights.
Nobody stood out and Doyle had a shocker
Stockport County 1 Preston North End 2 Att 1400
Neil On Positive End To A Great Week
Neil On Positive End To A Great Week
Alex Neil has pleased to end a great week with a win after the 2-1 win over Stockport County rounded off a productive week of training for the PNE boss.
Alex Neil was pleased to end a great week with a win after the 2-1 win over Stockport County rounded off a productive week of training for the PNE boss.
After a week of hard work and team bonding in Ireland, the gaffer took charge of his first game for North End and saw his side run out winners at Edgeley Park.
Speaking to iFollow after the game, the gaffer said: "It's been a great week, the lads have worked extremely hard and it's nice to finish it off with a game, especially that we won the game.
"To be honest the performance and the lads trying to implement all the things we've worked on this week are probably the most important things.
"I think the lads are going to be heavy legged, and not only that it's about tired minds as much as anything else but I thought they attacked it, they tried to implement the stuff that we had worked on." The PNE boss continued.
"I would still like to see us play forward a bit more in the dangerous but I don't think anyone could complain, certainly about the first half with the amount of chances we did create, we scored two good goals so it was pleasing.
The hosts changed formation at the break, and posed a different threat to the side, something that Neil was grateful for as it was a good test for his players.
"I had been working really hard on our formation so I hadn't really done a lot of work with the lads in terms of 3-5-2, so that was a good experience for them to have to try and adapt within the game and that's something we will cover before the season starts.
"I've only really had a week with them so it's about trying to bed in all of the bits and pieces that we want to try and achieve in terms of going forward and I think we saw glimpses of that in the first half."
A decent 1400 saw the game with about 400 from Preston, a few early getting to know you tackles were put in early on, North End looked more likely to score early on, but as shooting isn't one of our strong points, these effeorts were saved our ended up in the crowd. Couny slightly more direct had a gret chance early on when Huntingon was beaten by the bounce of the ball by Warburton who was in a great position until Hunts brought him down a nadgers away from the penalty area. The free kick was easily saved by Maxwell.
North End started to domnate down both flanks and with the impressive Robinson looking dangerous every time he got the ball, it only looked a matter of time until we scored, chances came and went and just before the half hour the home side scored, Stephenson looked to have been fouled in the area but manages to get the ball to Oswellwho fired home off the post. For a while the goal rocked North End and Stephenson should have made it two but a save by Maxwell and a block by Spurr denied him.
Parity was secured when Pringle(had a decent game) fired over a sexy cross, Barkuizhen beat the full back squared to Robbo 1 all. Before the next plane arrived Robbo's even better pass found Barkuizen and the lads were ahead by the break.
The first half team mentions to Pringle, DJ, Barkuizhen, but Robinson was excellent.
As for the second half it was dire, North End took a quick free kick which nearly lead to a Stephenson goal for Stockport, and a Browne shot which was well saved by their sub keeper before Browne sliced the rebound wide were the only highlights.
Nobody stood out and Doyle had a shocker
Stockport County 1 Preston North End 2 Att 1400
Neil On Positive End To A Great Week
Neil On Positive End To A Great Week
Alex Neil has pleased to end a great week with a win after the 2-1 win over Stockport County rounded off a productive week of training for the PNE boss.
Alex Neil was pleased to end a great week with a win after the 2-1 win over Stockport County rounded off a productive week of training for the PNE boss.
After a week of hard work and team bonding in Ireland, the gaffer took charge of his first game for North End and saw his side run out winners at Edgeley Park.
Speaking to iFollow after the game, the gaffer said: "It's been a great week, the lads have worked extremely hard and it's nice to finish it off with a game, especially that we won the game.
"To be honest the performance and the lads trying to implement all the things we've worked on this week are probably the most important things.
"I think the lads are going to be heavy legged, and not only that it's about tired minds as much as anything else but I thought they attacked it, they tried to implement the stuff that we had worked on." The PNE boss continued.
"I would still like to see us play forward a bit more in the dangerous but I don't think anyone could complain, certainly about the first half with the amount of chances we did create, we scored two good goals so it was pleasing.
The hosts changed formation at the break, and posed a different threat to the side, something that Neil was grateful for as it was a good test for his players.
"I had been working really hard on our formation so I hadn't really done a lot of work with the lads in terms of 3-5-2, so that was a good experience for them to have to try and adapt within the game and that's something we will cover before the season starts.
"I've only really had a week with them so it's about trying to bed in all of the bits and pieces that we want to try and achieve in terms of going forward and I think we saw glimpses of that in the first half."
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