PRESTON NORTH END 1 Maguire CARDIFF CITY 2 McGuiness Collins
Preston North End: Iversen, Van Den Berg, Bauer, Hughes, Cunningham (Earl 68’), McCann, Ledson (Sinclair 68’), Browne, Barkhuizen, Maguire (Johnson 77’), Riis.
Subs not used: Hudson, Lindsay, Storey, Potts.
Cardiff City: Smithies, Ng, McGuinness, Nelson, Flint, Giles, Pack, Vaulks, Colwill (Bacuna 87’), I. Davies (Harris 62’), Zimba (Collins 46’).
Subs not used: Phillips, Morrison, Brown, Sang.
Attendance: 10,749 (927 away)
Well, were do you start, defeat, inability to actually compete for 90 minutes, what hasn't change is the mood of the home support disapproval from the home support at the end of the game and it's not hard to understand why.
One up after two minutes and looked to be just about in control only put in a second half performance of utter ineptitude we were not even good enough to be shambolic.
Four changes from the non performance at Forest, good news Bauer was fit and Browne and Maguire returned bigger bonus Moore not even in the Cardiff squad, we started well Riis got awayb down teh right personally thought the best option was a pass to Maguire but he chose to shoot and forced a corner which led to another corner from which Maguire at the back post squeezed home his first goal of the season .Only nagging doubt or only defeat of the season iat home came in the first game against Hull after we lead after 90 seconds
McCann had a good effort blocked before City started to gain a foot hole in the game, they looked to utilise long throws and dead ball kicks but in truth Iversen was not really troubled, getting towards half time we may have got lucky with a penalty decision after Zimba went down in the box but towards half time we seemed to be more likely to get a second than City getting a first
Was not heard to see whose half time team talk worked, City making one change Collins coming on, previously scored a hat trick against us. From the start of the second half whistle we barely got out of our half,two early City corners, Vaulks hitting the post could have gone anywhere from the rebound, City player wastes shot.
On the cards City would level free kick from the right McGuiness back post goal, we rouswed ourselves for a couple of minutes mainly due to a bit of what looked like gamesmanship following a corner, ball cleared to a white shirt ready to be put back in the box, City player dead in the area, official stops play cue handbags in the box, no trainer called on for City player momentum gone.
City took the lead from a corner Collins from close range, Iversen thought there was a foul got booked for his complaints.
City went for the kill Colwill could have made it three great save from the Dane and cleared by Van Den Berg, as the game wore on City sat back as our painfully slow build up made it easy for them, as per usual we ended uplobbing high balls into the box cleared by the giants in the Cardiff back line.
If you thought the horror shows we have put in at Blackpool, Forest etc were bad this second half performance even surpassed that low bench mark
Preston North End manager Frankie McAvoy told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"Goals change games and they can change the momentum of the game, we knew that Cardiff would come out, they put things into the box and I felt we mainly defended it really well in the first half.
"They made one change, they brought on James Collins and that made a difference to them, we concede a wide free-kick at the back stick where McGuinness gets the better of Sepp and then they score from the corner.
"That's the first goal we've conceded from a corner this season, which is bitterly disappointing as we knew that that's the thing Cardiff are extremely good at, set plays.
"We needed to make sure that we were strong enough to deal with those balls into the box and unfortunately we weren't."
Cardiff City manager Steve Morison told BBC Radio Wales:
"First half we let the game be too frenetic and too many turnovers. They were better on the turnover than we were, so we made a couple of changes to what we wanted to do.
"Second half we came out and the boys were excellent, Collo (James Collins) getting his goal, working really hard and did really really well and Isaac was excellent for the second goal holding it up.
"It was really good and they carried out what we asked them to do, and the rest is history now.
"We need to start starting games like that, we can't be waiting for 45 minutes and going a goal behind, but the most pleasing thing is there's so much there to improve on."
Preston North End: Iversen, Van Den Berg, Bauer, Hughes, Cunningham (Earl 68’), McCann, Ledson (Sinclair 68’), Browne, Barkhuizen, Maguire (Johnson 77’), Riis.
Subs not used: Hudson, Lindsay, Storey, Potts.
Cardiff City: Smithies, Ng, McGuinness, Nelson, Flint, Giles, Pack, Vaulks, Colwill (Bacuna 87’), I. Davies (Harris 62’), Zimba (Collins 46’).
Subs not used: Phillips, Morrison, Brown, Sang.
Attendance: 10,749 (927 away)
Well, were do you start, defeat, inability to actually compete for 90 minutes, what hasn't change is the mood of the home support disapproval from the home support at the end of the game and it's not hard to understand why.
One up after two minutes and looked to be just about in control only put in a second half performance of utter ineptitude we were not even good enough to be shambolic.
Four changes from the non performance at Forest, good news Bauer was fit and Browne and Maguire returned bigger bonus Moore not even in the Cardiff squad, we started well Riis got awayb down teh right personally thought the best option was a pass to Maguire but he chose to shoot and forced a corner which led to another corner from which Maguire at the back post squeezed home his first goal of the season .Only nagging doubt or only defeat of the season iat home came in the first game against Hull after we lead after 90 seconds
McCann had a good effort blocked before City started to gain a foot hole in the game, they looked to utilise long throws and dead ball kicks but in truth Iversen was not really troubled, getting towards half time we may have got lucky with a penalty decision after Zimba went down in the box but towards half time we seemed to be more likely to get a second than City getting a first
Was not heard to see whose half time team talk worked, City making one change Collins coming on, previously scored a hat trick against us. From the start of the second half whistle we barely got out of our half,two early City corners, Vaulks hitting the post could have gone anywhere from the rebound, City player wastes shot.
On the cards City would level free kick from the right McGuiness back post goal, we rouswed ourselves for a couple of minutes mainly due to a bit of what looked like gamesmanship following a corner, ball cleared to a white shirt ready to be put back in the box, City player dead in the area, official stops play cue handbags in the box, no trainer called on for City player momentum gone.
City took the lead from a corner Collins from close range, Iversen thought there was a foul got booked for his complaints.
City went for the kill Colwill could have made it three great save from the Dane and cleared by Van Den Berg, as the game wore on City sat back as our painfully slow build up made it easy for them, as per usual we ended uplobbing high balls into the box cleared by the giants in the Cardiff back line.
If you thought the horror shows we have put in at Blackpool, Forest etc were bad this second half performance even surpassed that low bench mark
Preston North End manager Frankie McAvoy told BBC Radio Lancashire:
"Goals change games and they can change the momentum of the game, we knew that Cardiff would come out, they put things into the box and I felt we mainly defended it really well in the first half.
"They made one change, they brought on James Collins and that made a difference to them, we concede a wide free-kick at the back stick where McGuinness gets the better of Sepp and then they score from the corner.
"That's the first goal we've conceded from a corner this season, which is bitterly disappointing as we knew that that's the thing Cardiff are extremely good at, set plays.
"We needed to make sure that we were strong enough to deal with those balls into the box and unfortunately we weren't."
Cardiff City manager Steve Morison told BBC Radio Wales:
"First half we let the game be too frenetic and too many turnovers. They were better on the turnover than we were, so we made a couple of changes to what we wanted to do.
"Second half we came out and the boys were excellent, Collo (James Collins) getting his goal, working really hard and did really really well and Isaac was excellent for the second goal holding it up.
"It was really good and they carried out what we asked them to do, and the rest is history now.
"We need to start starting games like that, we can't be waiting for 45 minutes and going a goal behind, but the most pleasing thing is there's so much there to improve on."
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