04-11-2021, 11:49
AFC Bournemouth 1 Billing Preston North End 2 Whiteman, McCann
AFC Bournemouth line-up: Travers, Kelly ©, Mepham (Rogers, 77), Lerma, Solanke, Christie (Marcondes, 84), Stacey, Lowe, Pearson (Anthony, 66), Cahill, Billing. Subs not used: Dennis, Cook, Brady, Kilkenny.
PNE line-up: Iversen, van den Berg, Bauer, Hughes, Barkhuizen, McCann (Johnson, 89), Whiteman, Earl (Cunningham, 75), Browne ©, Maguire (Potts, 75), Riis. Subs not used: Hudson, Storey, Ledson, Sinclair.
Attendance: TBC (307 PNE fans)
Referee: Mr D Webb
307 of us made the 11 hour round trip to pull off an Acca destroying resuly, mine included, the home sides first defeat of the season and our first away win.
Thought we deserved it, executed the game plan superbly and then counter attacked and scored twice to stun Parker and teh rest of the Thunderbirds team.
Unchanged again we spent the first 20 minutes sitting deep and soaking up everything they had to throw at us, they created nothing and in the first half didn't have a shot on target. We created one Barkhizen down the right poor shot though only thing he did wrong all night
Little was seen of Solanki but the other danger Billing as always looked a good player.
Second half more open Bauer made a brilliant saving tackle on Solanki after the forward had got the wrong side of the BFG.
The home side were maybe possible lucky Lerma was not sent off for throwing McCann into the advertising hordings
Then we struck Riis, and Maguire combined, Maguire out to Barkhizen ball first time into the box and ended up with Whiteman putting it top right bins 1 up.
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Cue home side retailiation, just as the you wouldn't score in a Brothel hit full voice, the home side did just that, ball in from te right, Hughes slips, Billing curls it in with a slight touch of Bauer. Level
Intense home pressure, Iversen palms a Mepham shot away and think it was Lowe isses from close range, then we do we score again, Riis down the left outpacing the defence, gets to the by line pulls it back to McCann and bottom right bins this time. Pitch invasion and chaos in the away end
Should have been three, Riis again outpaces the defence one on one with the keeper, doesn't get a great connection and chance is missed then it was the turn of the other Dane, Stacey shot should have been saved wasn't Lowe six yards out boot of the Dane tremendous save.
They piled every one forward went route one but we held onto the points
Bournemouth manager Scott Parker told BBC Radio Solent:
"It was a tough night for us. I thought we huffed and puffed without having that killer [instinct].
"Credit to Preston, I thought they came here and did a very good job with a very stubborn back five and three in front of them.
"They really reduced the spaces for our front players and our attacking side of the game and we just didn't have that quality in certain moments to unlock that door.
"We just weren't on our game tonight for one reason or another. Hopefully it's a blip, but we need to react now and go again.
"This is where we are now, we're still young in our development and this is where we'll find out exactly how good we are."
Preston manager Frankie McAvoy told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"I'm delighted for the whole team and the backroom staff and the Hemmings family, they put their faith and trust in me to try and deliver results. The support has been absolutely amazing since I arrived here.
"I just felt we needed a game plan for tonight and we worked really hard on it yesterday in making it really tough for them when we were out of possession and then having a real positive shape when we came forward.
"I felt, in the main, we were excellent. They had a few moments, which you'd expect, but the players were magnificent to a man.
"I've always got faith and trust in the group I've got and they can be really proud of their efforts tonight.
"We'll reflect on the performance and then go and get ourselves as prepared as well we can for Nottingham Forest on Saturday."
Compact little stadium, little atmosphere though for a side top of the league the game kick off in an atmosphere akin to a reading library, credit our fans made loads of noise and generally enjoyed themselves.
Finally the EFL 550 mile round trip on a Wednesday night are you serious?
AFC Bournemouth line-up: Travers, Kelly ©, Mepham (Rogers, 77), Lerma, Solanke, Christie (Marcondes, 84), Stacey, Lowe, Pearson (Anthony, 66), Cahill, Billing. Subs not used: Dennis, Cook, Brady, Kilkenny.
PNE line-up: Iversen, van den Berg, Bauer, Hughes, Barkhuizen, McCann (Johnson, 89), Whiteman, Earl (Cunningham, 75), Browne ©, Maguire (Potts, 75), Riis. Subs not used: Hudson, Storey, Ledson, Sinclair.
Attendance: TBC (307 PNE fans)
Referee: Mr D Webb
307 of us made the 11 hour round trip to pull off an Acca destroying resuly, mine included, the home sides first defeat of the season and our first away win.
Thought we deserved it, executed the game plan superbly and then counter attacked and scored twice to stun Parker and teh rest of the Thunderbirds team.
Unchanged again we spent the first 20 minutes sitting deep and soaking up everything they had to throw at us, they created nothing and in the first half didn't have a shot on target. We created one Barkhizen down the right poor shot though only thing he did wrong all night
Little was seen of Solanki but the other danger Billing as always looked a good player.
Second half more open Bauer made a brilliant saving tackle on Solanki after the forward had got the wrong side of the BFG.
The home side were maybe possible lucky Lerma was not sent off for throwing McCann into the advertising hordings
Then we struck Riis, and Maguire combined, Maguire out to Barkhizen ball first time into the box and ended up with Whiteman putting it top right bins 1 up.
Cue home side retailiation, just as the you wouldn't score in a Brothel hit full voice, the home side did just that, ball in from te right, Hughes slips, Billing curls it in with a slight touch of Bauer. Level
Intense home pressure, Iversen palms a Mepham shot away and think it was Lowe isses from close range, then we do we score again, Riis down the left outpacing the defence, gets to the by line pulls it back to McCann and bottom right bins this time. Pitch invasion and chaos in the away end
Should have been three, Riis again outpaces the defence one on one with the keeper, doesn't get a great connection and chance is missed then it was the turn of the other Dane, Stacey shot should have been saved wasn't Lowe six yards out boot of the Dane tremendous save.
They piled every one forward went route one but we held onto the points
Bournemouth manager Scott Parker told BBC Radio Solent:
"It was a tough night for us. I thought we huffed and puffed without having that killer [instinct].
"Credit to Preston, I thought they came here and did a very good job with a very stubborn back five and three in front of them.
"They really reduced the spaces for our front players and our attacking side of the game and we just didn't have that quality in certain moments to unlock that door.
"We just weren't on our game tonight for one reason or another. Hopefully it's a blip, but we need to react now and go again.
"This is where we are now, we're still young in our development and this is where we'll find out exactly how good we are."
Preston manager Frankie McAvoy told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"I'm delighted for the whole team and the backroom staff and the Hemmings family, they put their faith and trust in me to try and deliver results. The support has been absolutely amazing since I arrived here.
"I just felt we needed a game plan for tonight and we worked really hard on it yesterday in making it really tough for them when we were out of possession and then having a real positive shape when we came forward.
"I felt, in the main, we were excellent. They had a few moments, which you'd expect, but the players were magnificent to a man.
"I've always got faith and trust in the group I've got and they can be really proud of their efforts tonight.
"We'll reflect on the performance and then go and get ourselves as prepared as well we can for Nottingham Forest on Saturday."
Compact little stadium, little atmosphere though for a side top of the league the game kick off in an atmosphere akin to a reading library, credit our fans made loads of noise and generally enjoyed themselves.
Finally the EFL 550 mile round trip on a Wednesday night are you serious?
Why should a man go to work, if he has the health and strength to stay in bed?