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Preston v Swans

keith margam

Vital Football Legend
Last match before the two week International break, can we make it three wins in a row.
Jamie Paterson and Matt Grimes we’re rested for the midweek Cup game but return to the squad for today’s match.
Ryan Bennett and Kyle Naughton played mid-week and are also back in contention. Korey Smith, Liam Walsh, Flynn Downes, Ben Cabango, and of course long term injured Connor Roberts, are still out.
Preston have gone through a bad patch but have won their last two matches.
 
Today’s line up:

Preston North End: Daniel Iversen, Sepp van den Berg, Ben Whiteman, Patrick Bauer, Daniel Johnson (captain), Jordan Storey, Andrew Hughes, Ryan Ledson, Emil Riis, Sean Maguire, Josh Earl.

Substitutes: Declan Rudd, Greg Cunningham, Josh Harrop, Joe Rafferty, Scott Sinclair, Joe Rodwell-Grant, Brad Pott.

Swansea City: Steven Benda; Joel Latibeaudiere, Ryan Bennett, Ryan Manning; Ethan Laird, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (captain), Jake Bidwell; Jamie Paterson; Liam Cullen, Joel Piroe.

Substitutes: Ben Hamer, Kyle Naughton, Brandon Cooper, Dan Williams, Yan Dhanda, Morgan Whittaker, Jamal Lowe.
 
8 mins
Latibeaudiere off with a leg injury after a tackle and a failed penalty appeal from Preston.
Brandon Cooper on.
 
0-1
19’ Piroe, right footed shot from the centre of the box great assist from Cullen

1-1
20’ van den Burg ( on loan from Liverpool), good finish Swans caught sleeping straight after kick-off, sloppy defending
 
3-1
52’ Whiteman curled free kick, poor from Benda, should have saved.
Our defence is wide open, this could be a rout for lowly Preston, embarrassing. Preston are all over us.
 
61’ Naughton replaces Bennett, Lowe replaces Fulton (all subs now used)
Subs have made no impact. Preston have dominated and are the better team, more organised, more fight in them and want it more.
77’ all Preston, Swans in disarray.
Preston 12 shots, 6 on target so far. Swans zero shots second half.
 
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FT: Preston 3 Swans 1
Yet again Swans unable to counter the high press, same old story, countless times losing the ball, and continuously caught in possession.
Swans well beaten by an average Preston team, where do we go from here. This is not working!!
Down to 20th in the table, a point above relegation after 5 league games.
 
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RM:
“I know the guys are tired, but we have to do better, it has really hurt me the way we lost goals like that. It’s not good enough and the fans who were here today deserved better.“