Preston 2-3 Norwich
Preston North End hosted Norwich City at Deepdale for an exciting Championship encounter that ended with a win for the visitors.
The home side started strongly and took the lead in the 6th minute through a penalty converted by S. Greenwood. Twelve minutes later, D. Holmes extended the lead with a quality goal, assisted by Greenwood. However, Norwich responded before halftime and pulled one back through a goal by B. Sainz in the 45th minute.
In the second half, Norwich dominated the game and managed to turn the score around. S. Duffy scored the equaliser in the 61st minute, following an assist from J. Sargent. Norwich kept pushing and finally achieved victory with a third goal.
The match statistics reflect the visitors’ greater possession and superiority in attack. Norwich had 69% possession and took 9 shots, 3 of them on target, while Preston managed 31% possession and 8 shots, 2 of them on target.
The referee of the match was Will Finnie, from England.
Substitutions norwich: at minute 46 K. Gordon came in and K. Fisher went out., at minute 67 G. Forsyth came in and E. Marcondes went out., at minute 67 B. Chrisene came in and A. Crnac went out., at minute 81 J. Stacey came in and A. Slimane went out.
Substitutions preston: at minute 67 M. Frokjaer-Jensen came in and S. Greenwood went out., at minute 77 S. T. Thordarson came in and D. Holmes went out.
The teams lined up as follows:
Preston
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