To be fair, we may have struggled to smash teams, but when you look at our home record this season, we haven't really 'struggled'. All 3 of the drawn games, we should have won. Only the home game against Ipswich was a deserved defeat. With the right attitude this evening, we should be confident of a positive result.
I honestly think this will be a very tough game and I am not convinced we will take advantage of Ipswich's slip up last night.
We are not going to keep winning every single game. It's just so unlikely and Preston will be physical and try and disrupt tonight .
I don't think we can just say it's going to be easy. Might prove to be, but we may need to score early on.
You also can't just say Oxford beat them last Friday, so we should beat them tonight. Football doesn't just work like that. Port Vale just beat Bristol City and Sunderland. It just so often
doesn't work that way and anyone is capable of beating anyone.
I just have niggly doubts about this one tonight and I don't think it's just going to be pain sailing
I would also think that this is probably not a game for Esse against a very physical Preston side. If he's fit and you want to counter that physicality, you play Saka
Hard to predict. Heart obviously says the City, but head is telling me either a 0-0, or shock horror, a smash and grab Preston win.