Preston vs Brentford
Sky Bet Ch’ship
3:00pm Saturday 14th September
Deepdale
(Att: 12873)
Preston moved into the Sky Bet Championship positions using a hard-fought 2-0 win over Brentford with objects from Sean Maguire and Tom Barkhuizen.
Maguire’s early target handed the Lilywhites the advantage at Deepdale, while Barkhuizen struck after the break against a Bees side who lacked a cutting edge in the final third.
Brentford manager Thomas Frank named an unchanged team that was starting and Alex Neil made four alterations in the Preston aspect that drew against Nottingham Forest last time out prior to this break.
After going down beneath Mathias Jensen’s challenge was not entertained by referee David Coote maguire’s penalty appeal.
However, the attacker had his reward seconds after he found himself in the box to control the crossover of Ryan Ledson and then tucked beyond David Raya inside five minutes.
A response from the Bees saw Said Benrahma whose lob over Declan Rudd was removed by the Preston rearguard is slipped in by leading scorer Ollie Watkins.
Pontus Jansson challenge in the other end set off Billy Bodin who smashed in the stands, even while goalkeeper Raya stood strong to deny that the ex-Bristol Rovers man before 10 minutes.
After moving one-on-one however, the Bees winger touch down him since the ball collected, bryan Mbeumo wasted a wonderful chance.
Sergi Canos headed a Brentford counter-attack to the edge of the box following the half an hour however dinked a very minimal effort well off target, before that the stands were found by Mbeumo prior to the rest using a volley 10 minutes.
Benrahma revealed a fierce effort three moments as the hosts went to the break in 26, before the period which stung Rudd’s palms.
Since Brentford continued to enjoy the bulk of opportunities mbeumo improved following the restart and curly an effort within the opening minutes.
Watkins was refused by preston stopper Rudd after 52 minutes following a exchange of possession with Benrahma from an acute angle, using all the latter’s harmful free kick from 30 yards before the hour curling broad searched for an equaliser.
Spiritual Norgaard’s shot outside the penalty area crept off Ben Davies’ deflection and had Rudd racing to ensure it did not as the London side continued to press on.
However, their second was caught by the Lilywhites with 20 minutes remaining after a free Darnell Fisher about the best slid in a cross for Barkhuizen to slot into an empty web following Brentford defending that was more questionable.
Barkhuizen slotted about the break in Maguire but discovered Jansson in the best way to deny a opportunity prior to the ending.
The victory was Preston’s third in four league games, while Brentford slip to 18th in the table following seven games up to now.
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