PRESTON Commentary

Liptak on for Lallana

Pompey equalise 2-2

Skates have equalised. Booo...

All Preston now

BWP on for Saga

Saints press with BWP

4 mins extra time

Poor old Weymouth (local Conference side) are being hammered 9-0, playing with youngsters because they have lost their entire first team as the club are in dire financial straits. Hope that doesn't happen to us.

4 minutes stoppage time. Where did they get that from??

All hands on deck now

Preton attack and Skacel foulled.

Surman attacks but Preston clear

Preston attack cleared by Liptak

Preston again punt ball forward and ball collected comfortably by Davis

2 minutes into the 4 minutes stoppage time.

This second half hasn't been as good, but I am happy now, one minute to go. This last minute is dragging!

Saints press but Preston clear.

Full Time 3-1.


We have won!!

Wallace shoots again and ball deflected to davis

Thank you Saints for a bit of cheer.

Brilliant first half followed by very nervous second half.

Can we now start to win regularly at home? Cardiff next will let us know soon enough.

I hope this isn't another false dawn, as is often the case with Saints.
In the meantime, I will enjoy the win..

woooooOO!!!!

david 7
james 8
perry 7
saeijs 7
skacel 6
lallana 7
surman 8
gillett 8
mcgoldrick 7
euell 8
saga 9

subs:
wotton 5
bwp NA
lipstik NA

TS was it tiredness or nerves as game wore on, or both?

SFC Forever wrote:Can we now start to win regularly at home? Cardiff next will let us know soon enough.

today woz pure luck but we just sit tight till dat day cms

SFC Forever wrote:TS was it tiredness or nerves as game wore on, or both?

well there was definitely tiredness towards the end, we really lost our shape in the last 20 minutes and weren't closing down enough. credit to one or two of the lads, especially lallana and euell, who kept going to the end but i would have liked to see wright-phillips come on earlier to run at their defence and bring back a bit of energy to the team

fortunately preston really weren't hurting us so although we got nervy in the second half we always looked comfortable. the pace of wallace and elliot caused a few problems but saeijs was a rock at the heart of defence and as ever perry was defending really intelligently, just dropping off parkin and picking up the loose balls. there were a couple of chances for them but other than the goal which was a great finish we were comfortable defending. lipstik came on for the last 5 minutes and won a couple of headers which helped as well.