20-02-2016, 20:50
Cheers SCO at the time of the sending off it could have gone anyway, suspect you were not at your best today, only eight points behind yourselves tonight and with no pressure the last 15 games could be interesting if we put a run of results together, saying that classic defeat against Charlton coming up on Tuesday.
Anyway here is my unbiased view of today game.
Well this season just gets better and better although what the result would have been if Wednesday had not been reduced to 10 men halfway through the second half we shall never know because at the time it was end to end stuff with both sides looking dangerous.
A large following from across the Pennines were in attendance, having shifted 5500 tickets the away following were in boisterous voice during a good first half. Wednesday started the brighter with the immense Nuhiu a menace in the air, the Wednesday front three also interchanged and had some super passing moves which caused North End's defence problems.
After the initial flurry North End started to look dangerous when they got the ball out wide were Woods and Cunningham got success.
Wednesday had a chance from a free kick but Wallace's kick was easily cleared.North End had the better chances with an early Garner range finder being easily saved by Westwood, before the Owls keeper pulled off a better save from Garner's header.
Woods had stolen in on the blind side and was narrowly wide with a pass com shot, Reach also blasted two efforts narrowly wide. However the best chance for the home side fell to Clarke who when clear from a Gallagher free kick put his shot wide. Towards half time Wednesday started to press.
A slow start to the second half with both teams cancelling each other out Wednesday had a chance to score from about 10 yards but the effort went over the bar. Nuhiu was well placed but looked to shoot but mis hit it and it was cleared, whilst Lees was only inches away from heading home across from Wallace.
Yellow cards started to be shown, one to Forestieri for diving, whether he did o not is anybodies guess but it was to prove pivotal when he deliberately hand balled a cross in the North End area. It took him about five hours to leave the field of play following his red.
Advantage North End, Wednesday changed formation to 441 to limit the amount of space the home side had but it did not take long to unpick them after a nice flowing move, Woods put in a super cross, defenders and goalkeeper did not go for it, Garner did though and his powerful header found the net.
Credit to Wednesday another formation change and they were now playing 324, Wallace tried to bring the ball back onto favoured left foot but was denied by Cunningham and then Wednesday's big chance Joao was denied by a fantastic tackle by Clarke when a goal looked certain. North End spent the six minutes of injury time in the corner flag area but still should have scored a second when Pearson stabbed wide but the points were ous.
Top game of football between two sides who gave everything. Finally the statistics say Wednesday did not have a shot on target.
Preston North End 1 Sheffield Wednesday 0 Att 16923
Anyway here is my unbiased view of today game.
Well this season just gets better and better although what the result would have been if Wednesday had not been reduced to 10 men halfway through the second half we shall never know because at the time it was end to end stuff with both sides looking dangerous.
A large following from across the Pennines were in attendance, having shifted 5500 tickets the away following were in boisterous voice during a good first half. Wednesday started the brighter with the immense Nuhiu a menace in the air, the Wednesday front three also interchanged and had some super passing moves which caused North End's defence problems.
After the initial flurry North End started to look dangerous when they got the ball out wide were Woods and Cunningham got success.
Wednesday had a chance from a free kick but Wallace's kick was easily cleared.North End had the better chances with an early Garner range finder being easily saved by Westwood, before the Owls keeper pulled off a better save from Garner's header.
Woods had stolen in on the blind side and was narrowly wide with a pass com shot, Reach also blasted two efforts narrowly wide. However the best chance for the home side fell to Clarke who when clear from a Gallagher free kick put his shot wide. Towards half time Wednesday started to press.
A slow start to the second half with both teams cancelling each other out Wednesday had a chance to score from about 10 yards but the effort went over the bar. Nuhiu was well placed but looked to shoot but mis hit it and it was cleared, whilst Lees was only inches away from heading home across from Wallace.
Yellow cards started to be shown, one to Forestieri for diving, whether he did o not is anybodies guess but it was to prove pivotal when he deliberately hand balled a cross in the North End area. It took him about five hours to leave the field of play following his red.
Advantage North End, Wednesday changed formation to 441 to limit the amount of space the home side had but it did not take long to unpick them after a nice flowing move, Woods put in a super cross, defenders and goalkeeper did not go for it, Garner did though and his powerful header found the net.
Credit to Wednesday another formation change and they were now playing 324, Wallace tried to bring the ball back onto favoured left foot but was denied by Cunningham and then Wednesday's big chance Joao was denied by a fantastic tackle by Clarke when a goal looked certain. North End spent the six minutes of injury time in the corner flag area but still should have scored a second when Pearson stabbed wide but the points were ous.
Top game of football between two sides who gave everything. Finally the statistics say Wednesday did not have a shot on target.
Preston North End 1 Sheffield Wednesday 0 Att 16923
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