Best Of

Surely our best X1 is entirely dependent on who our opposition are?

There will be games when GMac will be the best choice to start, for example, and games when he misses out. It will all depend on who he is up against on the wing.

Also, Bez was generally playing up against Liam Lindsay, who was outstanding for North End - won everything in the air and never gave Bez a moment's peace with the ball at his feet. By far their best player, I thought. And our other forward players (for understandable reasons) were often distant from Bez, leaving him isolated and easy to pick off.

Anders has played on plastic at home for a couple of years with Molde but had plenty of exposure to grass back in Denmark. It's an interesting point.

There was still more than enough quality in that starting 11 to win this comfortably - 8 first-team regulars + Chiesa. They've just been really poor.

How are Preston under 'average'and not under 'library'? I've been to a lot of games and grounds and that was the quietest I think I've ever heard at Deepdale

Life ban

Agree. Also remember the same thing about Michael Simpson

Until you said the Udoh bit, I thought if ever there has been a time where you can ask who some of our newbies are, it's after bringing 12 in, in a window!

“Bez” cannot be faulted when it comes to work rate and determination but someone earlier in the season said he (or was it Dan Udoh?) had a clever knack of getting close enough to defenders to unsettle them but not close enough to be blown up for a foul.

I wasn’t at the match yesterday but I listened to @bluntphil’s excellent commentary on WanderersTV and I lost count of the number of times “and now on to Lubala” was followed by “Lubala fouls/gives away a free kick”. Phil mentioned that Preston have committed more fouls this season than any other team in the Championship. I haven’t seen the final stats but for much of the game our foul count was well ahead of Preston’s. Lubala was clearly a major contributor.

If only we'd snuck through, it was opening up for us!