Preston (A) Pre Match

[Pliskin]

Lots of things are concerning me at the moment, the biggest one being Marti naturally doesn’t know his best 11 at the moment, but he has more problems to boot, the squad is majorly fractured and must be difficult to work with at the moment. He’s got a core group who you can say you’ll trust to do the job on a match day, who are good enough….

 

Ayew, Mavididi, Bilal, Fatawu, Monga, McAteer (only just), Winks (on ability alone), Okoli, Stolarczyk, Ricardo and Page. 
 

He then has a group that clearly want away. 
 

Winks, Soumare, Faes, Kristiensen (injured). And Just appears to be on the verge of leaving. 

 

Then he has the group of player severely lacking in confidence

 

Daka, Skipp and Soumare probably edges into this group too. 
 

He’s then got Vestergaard who is just claiming a wage, Hamza who’s just a rotation player at this level, and that about it. And Thomas who is a nothing player really, doesn’t offer anything in my opinion. 
 

So really, he can only really rely on a hand full of players. 
 

Preston are about as championship as you can get, consistently average, but capable of being competitive through desire and fight. Think that this is a good time for them to be playing us, due to the fragilities within our squad. There’s a real poor mentality about the team, a teams that just taken a consistent kicking for 12 months or so….

 

Lots of unanswered questions with this team, and if Marti isn’t able to bring bodies in, will he be able to influence this team as Maresca did. 
 

Today will be an interesting test, in attack, we’ve got enough. To take any team in the league apart, but defensively we’re a mess. 

[FOXSE]

29 minutes ago, Leicesterpool said:

Cannot call this game, im not sure where the goals will come from this season. Take a point and keep the points coming in on the board.

I can't see mavididi, fatawu and el khannous scoring.....

[Chelmofox]

21 minutes ago, Tielemans63 said:

Won't happen, but would like to see Page start.

 

Winks has to start, surely?

Think impact subs for page and monga continues to give them confidence. 

[Fox42]

On 14/08/2025 at 12:07, lgfualol said:

Stolers

Justers Faers Vesters Thomers

Pagers Winkers

Fatters El-Khannousers Mongers

Ayewers 

Which one?

[trooky]

2 hours ago, Jazzy_Jeff said:

I would go with:

 

Stolarcyzk

 

Justin (if he’s on way out Ricardo if fit then Hamza)

Faes

Vestergaard

Thomas

 

Winks

Soumare

 

Fatawu

Bilal

Mavididi

 

Ayew

Is that you Marti😂

[Bourbon Fox]

42 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

desire and fight.

This was a massive, glaring difference between us and Huddersfield. 

 

Really worrying, teams get promoted on these qualities 

[Kasey Keller]

Any way of watching this

[kenny]

46 minutes ago, Pliskin said:

Lots of things are concerning me at the moment, the biggest one being Marti naturally doesn’t know his best 11 at the moment, but he has more problems to boot, the squad is majorly fractured and must be difficult to work with at the moment. He’s got a core group who you can say you’ll trust to do the job on a match day, who are good enough….

 

Ayew, Mavididi, Bilal, Fatawu, Monga, McAteer (only just), Winks (on ability alone), Okoli, Stolarczyk, Ricardo and Page. 
 

He then has a group that clearly want away. 
 

Winks, Soumare, Faes, Kristiensen (injured). And Just appears to be on the verge of leaving. 

 

Then he has the group of player severely lacking in confidence

 

Daka, Skipp and Soumare probably edges into this group too. 
 

He’s then got Vestergaard who is just claiming a wage, Hamza who’s just a rotation player at this level, and that about it. And Thomas who is a nothing player really, doesn’t offer anything in my opinion. 
 

So really, he can only really rely on a hand full of players. 
 

Preston are about as championship as you can get, consistently average, but capable of being competitive through desire and fight. Think that this is a good time for them to be playing us, due to the fragilities within our squad. There’s a real poor mentality about the team, a teams that just taken a consistent kicking for 12 months or so….

 

Lots of unanswered questions with this team, and if Marti isn’t able to bring bodies in, will he be able to influence this team as Maresca did. 
 

Today will be an interesting test, in attack, we’ve got enough. To take any team in the league apart, but defensively we’re a mess. 

Soumare needs some time away from the first team, the king power and seagrave in order to rebuild his shattered confidence.

 

June 2026 should be enough time for him to work on his lack of self belief.

[Pliskin]

18 minutes ago, Bourbon Fox said:

This was a massive, glaring difference between us and Huddersfield. 

 

Really worrying, teams get promoted on these qualities 

It’s what will undo us this season. Complete lack of fight.

[Groby_Blue]

22 minutes ago, Kasey Keller said:

Any way of watching this

Its on the list of matches on Fawanews so might be shown there. Will see later. 

[FLAN]

1 hour ago, Pliskin said:

Lots of things are concerning me at the moment, the biggest one being Marti naturally doesn’t know his best 11 at the moment, but he has more problems to boot, the squad is majorly fractured and must be difficult to work with at the moment. He’s got a core group who you can say you’ll trust to do the job on a match day, who are good enough….

 

Ayew, Mavididi, Bilal, Fatawu, Monga, McAteer (only just), Winks (on ability alone), Okoli, Stolarczyk, Ricardo and Page. 
 

He then has a group that clearly want away. 
 

Winks, Soumare, Faes, Kristiensen (injured). And Just appears to be on the verge of leaving. 

 

Then he has the group of player severely lacking in confidence

 

Daka, Skipp and Soumare probably edges into this group too. 
 

He’s then got Vestergaard who is just claiming a wage, Hamza who’s just a rotation player at this level, and that about it. And Thomas who is a nothing player really, doesn’t offer anything in my opinion. 
 

So really, he can only really rely on a hand full of players. 
 

Preston are about as championship as you can get, consistently average, but capable of being competitive through desire and fight. Think that this is a good time for them to be playing us, due to the fragilities within our squad. There’s a real poor mentality about the team, a teams that just taken a consistent kicking for 12 months or so….

 

Lots of unanswered questions with this team, and if Marti isn’t able to bring bodies in, will he be able to influence this team as Maresca did. 
 

Today will be an interesting test, in attack, we’ve got enough. To take any team in the league apart, but defensively we’re a mess. 

I think one of the groups there could have been summed up in one word. Crap 

[Jabfox]

12 minutes ago, Groby_Blue said:

Its on the list of matches on Fawanews so might be shown there. Will see later. 

Does fawanews still work for you?

[Jabfox]

Be interesting to see if JJ and BEK are in the squad 

[Bert]

11 minutes ago, Jabfox said:

Does fawanews still work for you?

try that website but .sc 😉 

[Bourbon Fox]

45 minutes ago, Kasey Keller said:

Any way of watching this

From what I gather, the best way is to use a VPN to spoof your location as USA then download the CBS Sports app.

 

Some championship games are shown free, then the premium ones need a paramount+ subscription which is $11 a month. You pay with American Paramount+ gift cards from US Amazon to get around the region block.

 

Bit of faffing to get set up but that's 155 championship games for a tenner a month

[lcfc sheff]

is the team same as last week we reckon?

[Silebyfox_89]

50 minutes ago, Kasey Keller said:

Any way of watching this

Buying a match ticket?

[Jabfox]

4 minutes ago, Bert said:

try that website but .sc 😉 

Legend 🙏

[BeaumontFox]

Skipp benched. Thanks Marti 👏 

[Fox1980]

Ayew hat trick