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Preston North End v Ipswich Town
3 February 2024 15.00 hrs

LAST TIME OUT





Played well in this one fully deserved their point one thng you notice is they keep on going until the end unlike us after Fantastic's famous half time team talks

FORM GUIDE

PNE 5 IPSWICH 9

Town unbeaten in last five league games forget about last weeks defeat to the Stones after you hit the woodwork so many times kind of guess it ain't going to be your day

https://www.not606.com/threads/preston.410917/

https://www.itfc.co.uk/

They have a couple of new signing in Travis from the Plastics and Al Hamadi from AFC Wimbledon apparently also after Keiffer Moore from Bournemouth as well



Keiffer in his Forest Green days before his vegan diet under woke grifter Dale

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Who’s Available?

Jack Whatmough is expected to return to the matchday squad after missing the previous four matches through injury.

Ched Evans will be absent again, though, as work continues to strengthen his hamstring.

Kian Best is the only other player unavailable to Ryan Lowe, with the teenager having rolled his ankle.

Opposition Focus

Ipswich Town have had a quite remarkable campaign so far, especially considering this season is only their first back in the Championship since relegation in 2019.

Still with the majority of their promotion-winning side, plus a few additions, the Tractor Boys sit second in the table but with increasing pressure being applied by the 22-match unbeaten Southampton, and Leeds United.

Kieran McKenna will believe he has enough strength in the squad and belief in his style that they’ll be able to fend off the promotion contenders and reach the Premier League.

A Recent Clash


Half-time substitute Joe Garner scored a hat-trick at Deepdale in 2014 to send PNE into the fourth round of the FA Cup.

Match Officials

Referee: Graham Scott
Assistant Referees: James Mainwaring and Sian Massey-Ellis
Fourth Official: Ben Speedie

Graham Scott will take charge of a PNE fixture this weekend for the first time since January 2018, when he refereed a fourth round FA Cup tie against Sheffield United.

So far this season, Scott has shown 64 yellow cards and three red cards in 14 matches.

With the end of the transfer window in sight and not a sniff of a signing looks like the owners and manager have called time on this season, a season that started so well now hindered by Fantastic's negative tactics
Tractors on Saturday, should be well backed gave them neigh on 5000 tickets they are  progressive and seemed to be on an upward curve although danger for them is possible loss of the manager somewhere down the line.
Lost last week in the cup have depth in the squad and will probably win on Saturday
A case of what might have been except the long end of season run in begins now

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Preston North End 3 Keane 2 Edmondsonog Ipswich Town 2 Moore 2

PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Lindsay, Hughes; Potts, Whiteman, Browne, Millar (Brady, 78); Frøkjær (McCann, 70), Riis (Osmajić, 70), Keane (Woodburn, 90+5). Subs not used: Cornell, Cunningham, Ledson, Mawene, Whatmough.

Ipswich Town line-up: Hladky; Clarke, Woolfenden, Edmundson, Davis; Morsy, Luongo (Harness, 81); Burns (Al-Hamadi, 81), Chaplin (Hutchinson, 67), Sarmiento (Broadhead, 67); Jackson (Moore, 45). Subs not used: Walton, Travis, Humphreys, Tuanzebe.

Attendance: 17,313 (3,435 Ipswich Town fans).

Referee: Mr G Scott.

After some of the dire stuff witnessed hoe and away this was entirely different a tremondous game with the result in doubt until the final whistle. Backed by a noisy 3500 Ipswich stuck to their principles of attack, attack, attack although they were let down by some iffy defending.
Should have been one up in the first minute, Mads lobbed pass to Millar first time shot sliced wide, personally thought he should have done better, didn't matter by the eighth minute we were two up, might have been a foul on the first the sc=econd looked offside although highlights showed Clarke probably played Riis on side, both goals majestically bang in by Edmondson although the first from Keane's shot would not have troubled the keeper until it hit the defender, the second did well too catch up with Riis and took the decision to help the striker out by putting the ball past his own keeper. Not quite the start the visitors wanted.
Town responded by pining us back for long periods possibly over played in front of goal, whilst at the back Hladky their keeper was ofetn found to be 50 yards from goal setting up attacks. Plenty of the ball but they didn't really threatne to score cannot remember Woodman being tested only a Clarke effort that went wide of the far post.
Five mintes before half time it's 3-0 dradful pass from the keeper to Morsy loses ball to Mads tries to win it back but only sets up Keane to slot home, dream land now it all depended on fantastic's half time talk would it be drop deep and defend at all costs in teh second period.
It was but mainly due to Town forcing us back, having brought on big lad Moore at half time it changed the pattern of the game, one way only to the home net, did well to survive the onslaught got lucky when a free kick from Davies pinged off the post.
Sould have been four when a shocker of an error by Hladky almost let Mads in although he claimed a penalty the keeper did manage to get an arm to the ball and clear it, Mads was less than impressed with the decision and was still whinging about it when he was substituted.
As always Fantastic's substitutions tend to make things worse and sure enough Moore heads in at the back post from Davis cross to the back post, ad the feeling this wasn't a consolation.
Sure enough three minutes from the end a scramble great save by Woodman to deny Al Hamadi ball ran loose to Moore 3-2.
Moore header welll saved by Woodman and a Hutchinson effort narrowly over the top, just about hung on to the win against a very good side, one thing never changes though Woodman made his obligatory appearance as a sub in teh 94th minute
Preston boss Ryan Lowe told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"I thought the lads were fantastic from start to finish in everything they did.

"First half was great because we scored goals and went in 3-0 but you always know a good team like Ipswich are going to come out and fight, and they did.

"Bringing on a player like Kieffer Moore can cause you problems, they were a little bit more direct, but I thought our lads dealt with large parts of it very well.

"Obviously, the goals [conceded] were disappointing, but it doesn't really matter because we've got three points."

Ipswich head coach Kieran McKenna told BBC Radio Suffolk:

"When you concede two unfortunate goals in the first eight or nine minutes, it's the worst situation it could be because Preston can then defend their box with a lot of bodies.

"Our play in the final third wasn't at the level we want it to be but that was exaggerated by the scoreline which dictated the tone and feel of the game.

"In the second half, we produced a really good performance which deserved to get something out of the game.

"His [Moore] impact was there for all to see, he was excellent. I don't think it would have been right [to start him], he hasn't even trained with the group."