Preston North End 1 v 0 Ipswich Town
EFL Championship
Saturday, 23rd August 2025 Kick-off 15:00

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Daniel Iversen
Jordan Storey
Lewis Gibson
Andrew Hughes
Pol Valentin
Alfie Devine
Benjamin Whiteman
Alistair McCann
Thierry Small
Milutin Osmajic
Michael Smith

Odeluga Offiah
Stefán Þórðarson
Daniel Jebbison
Liam Lindsay
Andrija Vukčević

	Alex Palmer
	Ben Johnson
	Dara O'Shea
	Jacob Greaves
	Leif Davis
	Azor Matusiwa
	Jack Taylor
	Jack Clarke
	Sammie Szmodics
	Jaden Philogene
	George Hirst

	Ashley Young
	Kasey McAteer
	Conor Chaplin
	Jens Cajuste
	Chuba Akpom

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Your Preston North End v Ipswich Town Match Reports

poet added 17:55 - Aug 23

For me, the bottom line here is we were bullied out of this game. It’s not easy playing against a side like Preston, whose tactics are hardly synonymous with football.
However, no excuses, I saw at least 2 of our players who backed out of challenges. That’s poor, you know what you’re going to get from teams like this, so it shouldn’t have been a surprise.
We’ll no doubt be up against a few more this season, so we need to be braver and stronger.

prebbs007 added 17:58 - Aug 23

60% possession 16 shots to 2 522 passes to 148. STILL LOSE. Same team as last week. £14m on a Leicester reserve player. No plan B. Subs far too late. Clarke worst signing in years. Hirst can’t hit target let alone score. 4 wins in 41 games any other manager would have been sacked. Sort it out or get out KMc stop doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result that’s the definition of insanity.

prebbs007 added 18:02 - Aug 23

60% possession 16 shots to 2 522 passes to 148. STILL LOSE. Same team as last week. £14m on a Leicester reserve player. No plan B. Subs far too late. Clarke worst signing in years. Hirst can’t hit target let alone score. 4 wins in 41 games any other manager would have been sacked. Sort it out or get out KMc stop doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result that’s the definition of insanity.

prebbs007 added 18:03 - Aug 23

60% possession 16 shots to 2 522 passes to 148. STILL LOSE. Same team as last week. £14m on a Leicester reserve player. No plan B. Subs far too late. Clarke worst signing in years. Hirst can’t hit target let alone score. 4 wins in 41 games any other manager would have been sacked. Sort it out or get out KMc stop doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result that’s the definition of insanity.

prebbs007 added 18:03 - Aug 23

Sry not sure how it posted. 3 times

IndependentlyBlue added 19:21 - Aug 23

We all know why you posted it three times

Robert_Garrett added 20:18 - Aug 23

Another game we should have won easily. Why are the brakes on our best players t o adhere to the system? Shoot on sight and take no prisoners, beef up and match brawn with brawn.

Eeyore added 21:37 - Aug 23

Again, when we lose, most people just give low scores for everyone. Matusiwa and Taylor deserve credit for trying to lead and dictate play which they failed to do in the Birmingham game. They must be more ‘Morsy’ and I think they are getting there. When Cajuste plays more minutes, it will improve further. The problem today was that Philogene and Clarke were not on the same wavelength as the rest of the team. We miss Burns who may not be world class but he does understand what his teammates are doing. Hirst was struggling and losing against big strong defenders. Akpom showed once near the end how to use strength hold up and shield the ball. He might be what we need. I thought Szmodics looked lively and deserves some credit for his performance. All our defenders played well. The problem was that the Preston defence was really outstanding. We had to constantly play the ball back to Greaves because we need more movement up front.