Preston North End 2 Woodburn, Browne Hearts 1 Haring pen
In the main an entertaining game which we probably did enough to deserve the win we got, good to be back at Deepdale although the lack of beer was a bit of a blow inside the ground, first time ever for a glass of wine before the game.
Pitch looked in super condition and a decent support from our visitors gave the ground a bit of atmosphere
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We were pinned back in the early stages but once we got into the game we looked decent, fast passing, speed on the break not things you would normally expect from us, interesting to see both Storey and Hughes two of the centre backs ending up in advanced forward positions.
Should have taken an early lead following some woeful defending by Hearts but Woodburn delayed too long and a defender and keeper denied him.
Hearts should have taken the lead on the half hou , great move from defence to attack Boyce denied by Woodman, probaly should have scored, within a couple of minutes we did. Storey with the ball at the Hearts corner flag, found Potts not the greatest cross but it found Woodburn who was barracked by Hearts fans all night, his effort beat Gordon 1 up
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One substitution at half time Johnson for Brady who looked good going forward however have my reservations whether he is a wing back.
First ten minutes of the second peiod we were excellent, Woodburn went close again then out of the blue they equalised, Sibbick went on a lengthy run avoiding all efforts to hack him down, ball to Boyce in teh area and he was felled by Hughes looked a penalty all day long, Haring sent Woodman the wrong way.
A flurry of substitutions and one of them Browne scored from about 12 yards out after a move down the left hand side, he should have buried it, mishit it and it dribbled in off Gordon.
One other chance a shot from outside the box which Woodman didn't see flashed the wrong side of the post, there wer a few crunching tackles, a couple of bookings and a visiting fan was ejected from the ground.
PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey (Diaby, 69), Lindsay (Cunningham, 78), Hughes (Bauer, 78); Potts, Whiteman (Amaral, 88), McCann (Browne, 69), Woodburn (O’Neill, 86), Brady (Johnson, 45); Riis, Evans (Ledson, 75). Subs not used: Cornell, Coulton.
Hearts line-up: Gordon; Sibbick (Halkett, 77), Neilson (Kingsley, 45), Cochrane; Atkinson (Smith, 56), Haring, Grant (Mackay-Steven, 70), Halliday (Rowles, 56); Forrest, Boyce, McKay. Subs not used: Stewart.
Attendance: 3,286 (513 away).
Referee: Mr P Bankes.
A couple of signings wouldn't go amiss, some useful performances last night but we looked quite promising with Loweball
Fantastic
https://www.pnefc.net/news/2022/july/rya...s-victory/
In the main an entertaining game which we probably did enough to deserve the win we got, good to be back at Deepdale although the lack of beer was a bit of a blow inside the ground, first time ever for a glass of wine before the game.
Pitch looked in super condition and a decent support from our visitors gave the ground a bit of atmosphere
We were pinned back in the early stages but once we got into the game we looked decent, fast passing, speed on the break not things you would normally expect from us, interesting to see both Storey and Hughes two of the centre backs ending up in advanced forward positions.
Should have taken an early lead following some woeful defending by Hearts but Woodburn delayed too long and a defender and keeper denied him.
Hearts should have taken the lead on the half hou , great move from defence to attack Boyce denied by Woodman, probaly should have scored, within a couple of minutes we did. Storey with the ball at the Hearts corner flag, found Potts not the greatest cross but it found Woodburn who was barracked by Hearts fans all night, his effort beat Gordon 1 up
One substitution at half time Johnson for Brady who looked good going forward however have my reservations whether he is a wing back.
First ten minutes of the second peiod we were excellent, Woodburn went close again then out of the blue they equalised, Sibbick went on a lengthy run avoiding all efforts to hack him down, ball to Boyce in teh area and he was felled by Hughes looked a penalty all day long, Haring sent Woodman the wrong way.
A flurry of substitutions and one of them Browne scored from about 12 yards out after a move down the left hand side, he should have buried it, mishit it and it dribbled in off Gordon.
One other chance a shot from outside the box which Woodman didn't see flashed the wrong side of the post, there wer a few crunching tackles, a couple of bookings and a visiting fan was ejected from the ground.
PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey (Diaby, 69), Lindsay (Cunningham, 78), Hughes (Bauer, 78); Potts, Whiteman (Amaral, 88), McCann (Browne, 69), Woodburn (O’Neill, 86), Brady (Johnson, 45); Riis, Evans (Ledson, 75). Subs not used: Cornell, Coulton.
Hearts line-up: Gordon; Sibbick (Halkett, 77), Neilson (Kingsley, 45), Cochrane; Atkinson (Smith, 56), Haring, Grant (Mackay-Steven, 70), Halliday (Rowles, 56); Forrest, Boyce, McKay. Subs not used: Stewart.
Attendance: 3,286 (513 away).
Referee: Mr P Bankes.
A couple of signings wouldn't go amiss, some useful performances last night but we looked quite promising with Loweball
Fantastic
https://www.pnefc.net/news/2022/july/rya...s-victory/
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