For the second week in a row Preston North End fell just short of getting three points in the Championship – this time drawing 0-0 with Hull City.
It was not so much a physical test for PNE as much as it was a technical test. They needed to be quick and slick on the ball. They needed to look after it better and maintain their quality for longer periods.
It may not have come on but you can see the intent, you can see that they want to make things happen.North End will often recycle the ball from side to side in order to try and find openings but it can also provide a safety in that if something isn’t quite on ahead of them, they can always revert back to a centre half or a deeper player and that pressure is then passed on from them. That’s where they needed more pace in their play.
The North End backline is becoming a figure of consistency and in back to back weeks they have not been troubled.Hull had spent plenty of money on their side too, helped with the sale of Keane Lewis-Potter, but time and time again PNE and their players show that it is not what you pay that guarantees resutls.
If this run was to come in a month, or two month’s time, then the conversation would be entirely different. Teams can go mutliple games without scoring and though it can be mentioned, it is not the be all and end all.It isn’t that they’re not looking like scoring, quite the opposite. They are creating chances and should have scored in both of their games so far this season.
He opted to persist with Emil Riis and Troy Parrott on Saturday rather than bring on Mikey O’Neill as another option but you don’t quite know what you’re going to get with the youngster. That is no fault of his at all, but the nature of the beast, he has two career appearances. PNE started the game the stronger of the two sides, Riis seeing a strike beaten away inside the opening five minutes.
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