Wolves 1-3 PNE

By Matty Scott

This was the second midweek away game in 5 days, 1st travelling hundreds of miles to Norwich on Tuesday then tonight travelling to Wolves as North End looked for their 1st victory of the campaign and 1st under Paul Simpson.
The unbelievable prices meant many north enders stayed at home and watched on sky, Preston went into the game with just 1 point from the 1st 2 games and yet to score a goal.

Wolves went ahead early on through Jay Bothroyd, the former Charlton forward powered his way past Liam Chilvers on the right hand side before cutting in wrong footing Matt Hill before beating Carlo Nash at his front post. Preston fans then feared the worst until Dave Nugent bagged his 1st of the campaign with a clinical volley after St. Ledger’s sliced shot fell to him.

Preston came back out after half time looking a lot more confident and deservedly took the lead, the Wolves defenders backed off and Nugent punished them cutting inside onto his left foot and placing it into the bottom corner leaving the keeper with no chance.

The few North End fans who made the trip to Molineux were singing their hearts out as Preston were knocking the ball around for fun, Simon Whaley then killed the game off in the 90th minute, minutes after being pushed up front, the whale picked the ball up on the left after a miss timed header from the Wolves defender before cutting inside and lashing the ball home to send the travelling north end army wild.